Vocabulary Unit 12

Question 1

Aesthetic (Adj)

Answer 1

Pertaining to beauty; sensitive or responsive to beauty

Question 2

Defunct (Adj)

Answer 2

No longer in existence or functioning; dead

Question 3

Discomfit (v)

Answer 3

To frustrate, thwart, or defeat; to confuse, perplex, or embarass

Question 4

Espouse (v)

Answer 4

To take up and support; to become attached to, adopt; to marry

Question 5

Fetish (n)

Answer 5

An object believer to have magical powers; an object of unreasoning devotion or reverence

Question 6

Gregarious (adj)

Answer 6

Living together in a heard or group; sociable, seeking company of others

Question 7

Hapless (adj)

Answer 7

Marked by a persistent absence of good luck

Question 8

Impeccable (adj)

Answer 8

Faultless, beyond criticism or blame

Question 9

Importune (v)

Answer 9

To trouble with demands; to beg for insistently

Question 10

Interpolate (v)

Answer 10

To insert between other parts or things; to present as an addition or correction

Question 11

Irreparable (adj)

Answer 11

Incapable of being repaired or rectified

Question 12

Laconic (adj)

Answer 12

Concise, using few words

Question 13

Languish (v)

Answer 13

To become weak, feeble, or dull; to be depressed or dispirited; to suffer neglect

Question 14

Mendacious (adj)

Answer 14

Given to lying or deception; untre

Question 15

Nadir (n)

Answer 15

The lowest point

Question 16

Omnipresent (adj)

Answer 16

Present in all places at all times

Question 17

Perfunctory (adj)

Answer 17

Done in a superficial or halfhearted manner; without interest or enthusiam

Question 18

Plaintive (adj)

Answer 18

Expressive or sorrow or woe; melancholy

Question 19

Requite (v)

Answer 19

To make suitable repayment, as for a kindness, service, or favor; to make retaliation, as for an injury or wrong; to reciprocate

Question 20

Tantamount (adj)

Answer 20

Equivalent, having the same meaning, value, or effect