Vocab Quiz May 3rd

Question 1

Reclusive

Answer 1

(adj) avoiding the company of other people; solitary

Question 2

Pacifist

Answer 2

(n) a person who believes that war and violence are unjustifiable; peacemaker

Question 3

Ostracize

Answer 3

(v) exclude someone from a society or group; shun

Question 4

Nonchalant

Answer 4

(adj) feeling or appearing casually calm and relaxed; not displaying anxiety, interest, or enthusiasm; unconcerned

Question 5

Begrudge

Answer 5

(v) 1. envy someone’s possession or enjoyment of something; envy
2. give reluctantly or resentfully

Question 6

Harrowing

Answer 6

(adj) intensely distressing (causing anxiety, sorrow, or pain); trouble

Question 7

Prodigious

Answer 7

(adj) remarkably or impressively great in size; enormous

Question 8

Ameliorate

Answer 8

(v) make something from bad to better; imrpove

Question 9

Pretense

Answer 9

(n)1. an attempt to make something that is not the case appear true; make-believe/act
2. a claim, especially a false or ambitious one

Question 10

Guile

Answer 10

(n) sly or cunning intelligence; cunning