Vocab Test

Question 1

acumen

Answer 1

keen sight, shrewdness

Question 2

chicanery

Answer 2

use of sly language or reasoning, to trick or deceive

Question 3

deleterious

Answer 3

injurious to health; harmful; injurious

Question 4

epiphany

Answer 4

a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight

Question 5

facetious

Answer 5

not meant to be taken seriously or literally

Question 6

homogeneous

Answer 6

composed of the same kind or nature; not heterogeneous

Question 7

incognito

Answer 7

with one’s identity hidden, disguised or unknown

Question 8

kinetic

Answer 8

characterized by movement or caused by motion

Question 9

loquacious

Answer 9

characterized by excessive talk; garrulous; wordy

Question 10

lugubrious

Answer 10

mournful or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated manner

Question 11

nihilism

Answer 11

belief that all existence is senseless

Question 12

obsequious

Answer 12

characterized by deference; fawning; sycophantic

Question 13

paradigm

Answer 13

an example serving as a model; pattern

Question 14

precipitous

Answer 14

of the nature of a situation of great peril; extremely steep

Question 15

sanguine

Answer 15

cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident; reddish; ruddy

Question 16

unctuous

Answer 16

characteristic of an ointment; excessively suave or smug

Question 17

vacuous

Answer 17

empty; showing a lack of ideas or intelligence; purposeless

Question 18

xenophile

Answer 18

a person who likes the people, customs, and culture of other countries.