vocab test 5

Question 1

hermitage

Answer 1

(n) a secluded residence or private retreat

Question 2

impunity

Answer 2

(n) exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss

Question 3

turpitude

Answer 3

(n) inherent baseness : depravity

Question 4

plaintive

Answer 4

(a) expressive of suffering or woe

Question 5

incongruous

Answer 5

(a) lacking congruity

Question 6

bole

Answer 6

(n) trunk of a tree

Question 7

temperate

Answer 7

(a) having a moderate climate which especially lacks extremes / marked by moderation

Question 8

bootless

Answer 8

(a) useless

Question 9

chide

Answer 9

(v) to speak out in angry or displeased rebuke

Question 10

minion

Answer 10

(n) a servile dependent, follower, or underling

Question 11

surcease

Answer 11

(v) to desist from action

Question 12

damasked

Answer 12

(v) decorate with or as if with a variegated pattern.

Question 13

harbinger

Answer 13

(n) a person or thing that announces or signals the approach of another.

Question 14

frieze

Answer 14

(n) a broad horizontal band of sculpted or painted decoration, especially on a wall near the ceiling.

Question 15

trammel

Answer 15

(n) a restriction or impediment to someone’s freedom of action

Question 16

augment

Answer 16

(v) make (something) greater by adding to it; increase.

Question 17

benison

Answer 17

(n) a blessing.

Question 18

maw

Answer 18

(n) the jaws or throat of a voracious animal / the mouth or gullet of a greedy person.

Question 19

saucy

Answer 19

(a) disrespectful / bold

Question 20

malevolence

Answer 20

(n) the desire to cause pain for the satisfaction of doing harm

Question 21

nonpareil

Answer 21

(a) having no equal or rival for excellence or desirability