Vocabulary 6

Question 1

a continuos sequence; a range

Answer 1

continuum

Question 2

a feeling of shock and unhappiness

Answer 2

dismay

Question 3

to make use of (a resource), to use (a person) in an unfair or selfish way

Answer 3

exploit

Question 4

to be a typical example of something

Answer 4

exemplify

Question 5

to talk about the past with pleasure

Answer 5

reminisce

Question 6

to carefully measure or adjust

Answer 6

calibrate

Question 7

to make someone more powerful or important

Answer 7

aggrandize

Question 8

miserable, hopeless awful

Answer 8

abject

Question 9

to hope to achieve something or be successful

Answer 9

aspire

Question 10

state a fact or belief confidently and forcefully

Answer 10

assert

Question 11

urgent or needing to be dealt with immediately

Answer 11

pressing

Question 12

a belief or idea

Answer 12

notion

Question 13

an unfair personal opinion that influences your judgment

Answer 13

bias

Question 14

complete or perfect, having a high degree of skill

Answer 14

consummate (adj.)

Question 15

young, childish immature

Answer 15

juvenile

Question 16

to make something that is already bad worse

Answer 16

exacerbate

Question 17

to use up, consume

Answer 17

expend

Question 18

to rise and fall irregularly

Answer 18

fluctuate

Question 19

to downgrade, to lower in rank or status

Answer 19

relegate

Question 20

stuck in the mud

Answer 20

mired

Question 21

increase or grow rapidly

Answer 21

proliferate

Question 22

become less intense or widespread

Answer 22

abate

Question 23

to add to (something) in a way that enhances or completes it

Answer 23

complement (verb)

Question 24

doubtful

Answer 24

dubious

Question 25

dangerous

Answer 25

perilous

Question 26

to criticize or express disapproval with someone

Answer 26

reproach

Question 27

plain and without decoration, comforts, or anything extra

Answer 27

austere

Question 28

a series of words said as a magic spell or charm

Answer 28

incantation

Question 29

ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something

Answer 29

entreat

Question 30

complicated or confusing

Answer 30

labyrinthine

Question 31

spreading widely throughout an area or a group of people

Answer 31

pervasive

Question 32

complete and in the original state; not damaged

Answer 32

intact

Question 33

a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives

Answer 33

dilemma

Question 34

powerful, persuasive, or effective

Answer 34

potent

Question 35

to continue to be heard; to echo repeatedly

Answer 35

reverberate

Question 36

to damage or weaken the authority of an established system

Answer 36

subvert

Question 37

friendly

Answer 37

amicable

Question 38

sufficient, enough acceptable

Answer 38

adequate

Question 39

large in amount or scale

Answer 39

extensive

Question 40

the level or point at which something starts

Answer 40

threshold