Vocabulary #7

Question 1

Meretricious

Answer 1

Alluring by a show of flashy or vulgar attractions

Question 2

Equivocal

Answer 2

Allowing the possibility of several different meanings, as a word or phrase, especially with intent to deceive or misguide; susceptible of double interpretation; deliberately ambiguous:

Question 3

Knavery

Answer 3

Unprincipled, untrustworthy, or dishonest dealing; trickery.

Question 4

Affectation

Answer 4

An effort to appear to have a quality not really or fully possessed; the pretence of actual possession

Question 5

Appropriation

Answer 5

The act of taking possession of something, often without permission or consent.

Question 6

Prudent

Answer 6

Careful in providing for the future; provident:

Question 7

Profligate

Answer 7

Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources.

Question 8

Primness

Answer 8

Formally precise or proper, as persons or behaviour; stiffly neat.

Question 9

Convivial

Answer 9

Friendly; agreeable: a convivial atmosphere. Fond of feasting, drinking, and merry company; jovial.

Question 10

Transmutable

Answer 10

To change from one nature, substance, form, or condition into another; transform.

Question 11

Ascetic

Answer 11

A person who leads an austerely simple life, especially one who abstains from the normal pleasures of life or denies himself or herself material satisfaction.

Question 12

Aberation

Answer 12

The act of departing from the right, normal, or usual course.

Question 13

Rancour

Answer 13

Malicious resentfulness or hostility; spite

Question 14

Fastidious

Answer 14

Excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please:

Question 15

Prudish

Answer 15

Excessively proper or modest in speech, conduct, dress, etc.

Question 16

Acquiesce

Answer 16

Submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent:

Question 17

Banal

Answer 17

Devoid of freshness or originality; hackneyed; trite:

Question 18

Expedient

Answer 18

Conducive to advantage or interest, as opposed to right.

Question 19

Pecuniary

Answer 19

Of or relating to money

Question 20

Milieu

Answer 20

Surroundings, especially of a social or cultural nature

Question 20

Inveigle

Answer 20

To entice, lure, or ensnare by flattery or artful talk or inducements (usually followed by into)

Question 21

Complicity

Answer 21

The state of being an accomplice; partnership or involvement in wrongdoing

Question 22

Invective

Answer 22

An insulting or abusive word or expression.

Question 23

Mimetic

Answer 23

Characterized by, exhibiting, or of the nature of imitation or mimicry

Question 24

Brooding

Answer 24

Preoccupied with depressing, morbid, or painful memories or thoughts

Question 25

Secular

Answer 25

Of or relating to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal

Question 26

Misanthrope

Answer 26

A person who hates, dislikes, or distrusts most others; an antisocial, cynical, or unfriendly person

Question 27

Bereave

Answer 27

To deprive and make desolate, especially by death; to deprive ruthlessly or by force

Question 28

Alchemy

Answer 28

Any magical power or process of transmuting a common substance, usually of little value, into a substance of great value.

Question 29

Credulity

Answer 29

Willingness to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullibility.

Question 30

Eponym

Answer 30

A person, real or imaginary, from whom a place or thing takes or is said to take its name

Question 31

Surreptitious

Answer 31

Obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorised; clandestine

Question 32

Stupor

Answer 32

Suspension or great diminution of sensibility, as in disease or as caused by narcotics, intoxicants, etc

Question 33

Moxie

Answer 33

Courageous spirit and determination; perseverance

Question 34

Omniscient

Answer 34

Gaving complete or unlimited knowledge, awareness, or understanding; perceiving all things.

Question 35

Jaunty

Answer 35

Easy and sprightly (lively) in manner or bearing

Question 36

Adversary

Answer 36

A person, group, or force that opposes or attacks; opponent; enemy; foe.

Question 37

Censure

Answer 37

To criticise or reproach in a harsh or vehement manner:

Question 38

Reproach

Answer 38

Blame in disapproval, discredit

Question 39

Parochial

Answer 39

Very limited or narrow in scope or outlook

Question 40

Epoch

Answer 40

A particular period of time marked by distinctive features, events, etc

Question 41

Draconian

Answer 41

Rigorous; unusually severe or cruel

Question 42

Seminal

Answer 42

Highly original and influencing the development of future events:

Question 43

Embellish

Answer 43

To beautify by or as if by ornamentation; ornament; adorn.

Question 44

Deference

Answer 44

Respectful submission or yielding to the judgment, opinion, will, etc., of another.

Question 45

Soliciting

Answer 45

The act of requesting something, especially money; exchanging money for sex

Question 46

Forsaken

Answer 46

Deserted; abandoned; forlorn (hopeless, dreary)

Question 47

Orison

Answer 47

A Prayer

Question 48

Pall

Answer 48

A coffin or anything that covers or shrouds

Question 49

Dirge

Answer 49

A funeral song or tune, or one expressing mourning in commemoration of the dead.