Vocab week 2

Question 1

beseech

Answer 1

(v) to beg or plead (The servant beseeched the king for food to feed his starving family.)

Question 2

censorious

Answer 2

(adj) Finding fault; judging harshly (modest, charitable in his judgments, never censorious, Jim carried tolerance almost too far)

Question 3

consensus

Answer 3

(n) an opinion that is agreed upon by all members of a group of people (The jury was able to reach a consensus only after days of deliberation.)

Question 4

defraud

Answer 4

(v) to cheat; to gain something dishonestly, as through a lie, deception, or confidence game

Question 5

deity

Answer 5

(n) a god or a goddess

Question 6

elude

Answer 6

(v) to escape from someone or something chasing or searching; especially to use clever tactics to escape from pursuers (despite an intense search, the robbers continue to elude the police.)

Question 7

bewilder

Answer 7

(v) to perplex or confuse; to disorder someone’s thinking

Question 8

chattel

Answer 8

(n) a thing that is owned; a possession (the wealth of two folks offered to one another as chattel for an alliance.)

Question 9

contemptuous

Answer 9

(adj) thinking poorly of; scornful, disdainful (she was intolerant and contemptuous of the majority of the human race)

Question 10

tome

Answer 10

(n) a large and scholarly book ( in college, I used to carry around an anatomy book that was the heaviest tome in my bag.)