Vocabulary - color

Question 1

motley

Answer 1

many colored or blotched in coloring; made up of many parts

Question 2

pallor

Answer 2

an unhealthy pale appearance

Question 3

mottle

Answer 3

mark with spots or smears of color.

Question 4

cerulean

Answer 4

sky blue

Question 5

swarthy

Answer 5

(of skin or complexion) dark; dusky

Question 6

florid

Answer 6

1. having a red or flushed complexion; 2. elaborately or excessively intricate or complicated

Question 7

pied

Answer 7

multicolored; piebald

Question 8

harlequin

Answer 8

multicolored

Question 9

limpid

Answer 9

clear; transparent

Question 10

mauve

Answer 10

a pale purple color

Question 11

tawny

Answer 11

brownish yellow

Question 12

russet

Answer 12

a reddish-brown color

Question 13

wan, wanly (adv)

Answer 13

sickly pale; pallid: a wan complexion 2. faint or weak in a way suggestive of sickness or great weariness, sadness

Question 14

variegated

Answer 14

dappled; streaked; many colored

Question 15

opalescent

Answer 15

iridescent; showing varying colors as an opal does

Question 16

matte

Answer 16

(of a color, paint, or surface) dull and flat, without a shine

Question 17

fleck

Answer 17

a very small patch of color or light. (verb=to spot or mark)

Question 18

dun

Answer 18

a dull grayish-brown color

Question 19

sallow

Answer 19

most noticeable or important

Question 20

opaque, opaqueness (n)

Answer 20

dark; not transparent

Question 21

iridescent

Answer 21

displaying a play of lustrous colors like those of the rainbow

Question 22

magenta

Answer 22

purplish red

Question 23

nebulous

Answer 23

1. cloudy, misty, or hazy. 2. lacking definite form or limits; vague. 3. of, relating to, or characteristic of a nebula.

Question 24

pallid

Answer 24

pale; wan

Question 25

chromatic

Answer 25

pertaining to color or colors.

Question 26

opacity

Answer 26

1. cloudiness, nontransparency, opaqueness; 2. obscurity of meaning