Vocabulary 3

Question 1

Obsequious

Answer 1

Too eager to obey or praise someone

Question 2

Duplicitous

Answer 2

Double faced and misleading people

Question 3

Elegy

Answer 3

Funeral poem or song

Question 4

Clinical interest

Answer 4

Treating the subject more lake an object of study rather than someone they are emotionally connected to

Question 5

Doctrine

Answer 5

Set of beliefs held by the church, political party or another group

Question 6

Obscurity

Answer 6

State of being unknown

Question 7

Contempt

Answer 7

Feeling that person or thing is worthless

Question 8

Rectitude

Answer 8

Morally correct behaviour or thinking

Question 9

Plaintive

Answer 9

Sad

Question 10

Beguile

Answer 10

Charm in a misleading way

Question 11

Pedantic

Answer 11

Someone overly concerned with small details or rules

Question 12

Squire

Answer 12

Knights assistant by carrying weapons and stuff

Question 13

Indoctrinate

Answer 13

Teach people to accept a set of beliefs uncritically

Question 14

Cryptic

Answer 14

Having meaning that is mysterious

Question 15

Allusion

Answer 15

Reference

Question 16

Digression

Answer 16

Detour from the main subject in a speech or text

Question 17

Idioms

Answer 17

Phrase that means different from the literal meaning eg piece of cake meaning that something is easy to do

Question 18

Earnestness

Answer 18

Sincere and serious

Question 19

Ambivalent

Answer 19

Having mixed feelings about something or someone

Question 20

Derision

Answer 20

Ridicule or mock

Question 21

Chivalry

Answer 21

Code of behaviour that knights follow, being brave and loyal. Today it refers to being polite and respectful

Question 22

Exaltation

Answer 22

Extreme happiness

Question 23

Vicariously

Answer 23

Experience something through another person

Question 24

Pseudonym

Answer 24

Fake name that someone uses instead of real name

Question 25

Pejorative

Answer 25

Work or expression that has negative and disrespectful meaning

Question 26

Honorific

Answer 26

Word or expression used to show honour or politeness

Question 27

Juxtaposition

Answer 27

Two things placed together with contrasting effect

Question 28

Disenfranchised

Answer 28

Deprived of certain rights

Question 29

Disillusioned

Answer 29

Disappointed in someone or something that discovers to be less good than one believed

Question 30

Misnomer

Answer 30

Wrong name or designation

Question 31

Elucidation

Answer 31

Clarification

Question 32

Dramatisation

Answer 32

Acting out something

Question 33

Verbose

Answer 33

Wordy

Question 34

Irreverent

Answer 34

Lake of respect for things that are generally taken seriously

Question 35

Momentous

Answer 35

Significance

Question 36

Admonitory

Answer 36

Giving a warning

Question 37

Plaintive

Answer 37

Sounding sad

Question 38

Excruciating

Answer 38

Extremely painful

Question 39

Mortal

Answer 39

Something is alive but will eventually die

Question 40

Irascible

Answer 40

Quickly aroused to anger

Question 41

Remorse

Answer 41

Regret

Question 42

Proponent

Answer 42

Supporter or advocate of something

Question 43

Flamboyant

Answer 43

Attract attention because of confident and style

Question 44

Paradoxical

Answer 44

Something that contradicts itself

Question 45

Omnipotence

Answer 45

Having unlimited power or the ability to do anything

Question 46

Emulate

Answer 46

Copy someone often with the goal of matching their achievements

Question 47

Ambivalent

Answer 47

Mixed feelings

Question 48

Disparaging

Answer 48

Expression of the opinion that something is of little worth

Question 49

Discerning

Answer 49

Having or showing good judgement

Question 50

Indignant

Answer 50

Anger at unfair treatment