Vocabulary Study 7

Question 0

Amenable

Answer 0

Open to or willing to follow advice or suggestion, tractable, malleable

Question 1

Accolade

Answer 1

Praise, an award

Question 2

Antiquated

Answer 2

Obsolete, out of fashion, no longer usable

Question 3

Ascetic

Answer 3

One who leads a life of self denial and contemplation; absent of luxury

Question 4

Charlatan

Answer 4

One who claims to know something that he does not, a quack

Question 5

Clandestine

Answer 5

Secret; covert, furtive, stealthy, surreptitious, underhanded

Question 6

Derision

Answer 6

Scoffing at, mockery, ridicule

Question 7

Despotic

Answer 7

Ruling oppressively and absolutely; tyrannical

Question 8

Diffidence

Answer 8

Shyness, reserve, unassertiveness

Question 9

Effervescent

Answer 9

Showing high spirits

Question 10

Forbearance

Answer 10

Patience, lenience

Question 11

Hyperbole

Answer 11

Obvious exaggeration

Question 12

Insularity

Answer 12

Qualities of an island; narrow-mindedness of opinion

Question 13

Litigious

Answer 13

Excessively prone to lawsuits

Question 14

Oblique

Answer 14

Slanting, indirect, evasive, devious, misleading

Question 15

Obsequious

Answer 15

Overly attentive, like a sycophant, servile

Question 16

Paradoxical

Answer 16

Something that appears to be false but is actually correct

Question 17

Poignant

Answer 17

Piercing, incisive, keen

Question 18

Scrupulous

Answer 18

Very principled, very careful and conscientious