Week 7 Vocab

Question 1

Amortize

Answer 1

(v) To gradually and systematically write off (such as debt).

Question 2

Cower

Answer 2

(v) To shrink or cringe in fear.

Question 3

Dissonance

Answer 3

(n) Harsh, unpleasantly conflicting, or cacophonous sounds; Inconsistency or lack of agreement.

Question 4

Baleful

Answer 4

(adj.) Harmful in influence or intent; Foreboding, ominous.

Question 5

Distended

Answer 5

(adj.) Extended, expanded, or increased in sixe or volute; Swollen.

Question 6

Paradox

Answer 6

(n) A seemingle false or contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true.

Question 7

Preternatural

Answer 7

(adj.) Exceeding the ntural, normal or regular; extraordinary; Existing outside of or beyond the normal course of nature; Supernatural.

Question 8

Preen

Answer 8

(v) (Of animals) To smooth and clean one’s fur or feathers; To dress with great care or primp; To gloat, congratulate oneself, or swell with pride.

Question 9

Lambaste

Answer 9

(v) To berate, criticize, or reprimant harshly; To beat or whip.

Question 10

Lassitude

Answer 10

(n) Weariness or fatuge; Listlessness or indolence.

Question 11

Divest

Answer 11

(v) To deprive or dispossess of property, ownership, title; to sell off, as an investment; To strip of clothing or equipment.

Question 12

Levity

Answer 12

(n) Lightness or unseriousness of manner, mind or character, to the point of being inappropriate; frivolity; Fickleness or inconstancy.

Question 13

Prodigal

Answer 13

(adj.) Wastefully, rechlessly extravagant or spendthrift; Lavish, profuse or yielding in abundance.

Question 14

Banal

Answer 14

(adj.) Without originality or freshness.

Question 15

Laggard

Answer 15

(adj.) Slow, sluggish or lagging behind.

Question 16

Profligate

Answer 16

(adj.) Utterly dissolute; Wildly extravagant or wasteful.

Question 17

Exigent

Answer 17

(adj.) Urgent, pressing, demanding immediate action; Demanding a good deal or too much.

Question 18

Profundity

Answer 18

(n) Something proground; intellectual, mental, or emotional depth.

Question 19

Libertine

Answer 19

(n) One who is dissolute, debauched or without moral restraint; One who is unconventional in religious matters.

Question 20

Lethargy

Answer 20

(n) A state of sluggishness, inactivity, laziness, or indifference; Unusually intense drowsiness or sleepiness.

Question 21

Prolix

Answer 21

(adj.) Excessively long or tediously drawn-out; Excessively wordy.

Question 22

Ford

Answer 22

(n) A shallow place in a body of water where one can cross on foot or by horse, etc.
(v) To cross over a body of water, such as a river, in this way.

Question 23

Limpid

Answer 23

(adj.) Clear or transparent; Simple, transparent, or easily understood (as in stule or speech); Untroubled or serene.

Question 24

Proscribe

Answer 24

(v) To prohibit or forbid; To condemn as dangerous or harmful; To banish; to publish the name of a convicted outlaw.

Question 25

List

Answer 25

(v) To lean to one side, as a ship.

Question 26

Pungency

Answer 26

(n) The state or quality of being acrid in smell; biting, caustic, sharp, or incisive.

Question 27

Loll

Answer 27

(v) To move or rest in a reclined, indolent manner; to droop or hang.

Question 28

Loquacious

Answer 28

(adj.) Excessively talkative or garrulous; wordy.

Question 29

Emaciation

Answer 29

(n) Extreme thinness due to starvation, undernourishment or illness.

Question 30

Quell

Answer 30

(v) To suppress, subdue or put down forcefully; To calm or pacify.

Question 31

Pique

Answer 31

(n) A feeling of offense or wounded pride; resentment.

Question 32

Lull

Answer 32

(v) To soothe or put to sleep; To deceive or cause to feel a false sense of saftey or security.

Question 33

Canon

Answer 33

(n) That which is standard, approved or sactioned, especially in regards to scripture or literature; A rule, principal or law.

Question 34

Quack

Answer 34

(n) One who fraudulently claims to have medical skills; a charlatan.

Question 35

Lumber

Answer 35

(v) To move in a clumsy, heavy, slow way; to move with a rumbling noise.

Question 36

Macerate

Answer 36

(v) To make soft or dissolve by soaking; to emaciate.

Question 37

Desultory

Answer 37

(adj.) Lacking in consistency or oder; unplanned or fitufl; Random or diconnected from the main subject.

Question 38

Epicure

Answer 38

(n) Someone with refuned, discriminating taste, especially in food or wine; a connoisseur.

Question 39

Rebuff

Answer 39

(v) To reject or criticize bluntly or abruptly; to snub; To check, repel or drive off.

Question 40

Recant

Answer 40

(v) To formally repudiate or retract a former statement or belif; To openly admit error.

Question 41

Recondite

Answer 41

(adj.) Challending to those of average understanding or knowledge; abstruse or deep; Concealed or hidden.

Question 42

Soporific

Answer 42

(adj.) Tending to cause sleep or dull alertness; Sleepy, lethargic, or drowsy.

Question 43

Belie

Answer 43

(v) To contradict or show to be false; To misrepresent or give a false impression of.

Question 44

Redoubtable

Answer 44

(adj.) Causing fear; alarming or formidable; Illustious; worthy of respect.

Question 45

Meander

Answer 45

(v) To ramble or wander aimlessly and without urgency; To take a winding, indirect course.

Question 46

Mendacious

Answer 46

(adj.) Lysing, dishonest; misleading.

Question 47

Mercurial

Answer 47

(adj.) Changeable, volatile, or given to rapid shifts in mood; Having qualities associated with greek god Mercury, incl. cleverness, eloquence, and theivishness.

Question 48

Metaphysical

Answer 48

(adj.) Concerned with abstract though, related to metaphysics (branch of philosophy concerned wtih explaining the nature of being and of the world); very subtle or abstruse.

Question 49

Metamorphose

Answer 49

(v) To change or be transformed utterly in form or appearance; To cause or subject to a metamorphosis.

Question 50

Bonus Word: Shyster

Answer 50

(n) A person who uses petty or unethical practices, esp. a lawyer who does this.

Question 51

Bonus Word: Mimetic

Answer 51

(adj.) Imitative, relating to mimicry.

Question 52

Bonus Word: Crepuscular

Answer 52

(adj.) Like twilight, dim.

Question 53

Bonus Word: Ecumenical

Answer 53

(adj.) Universal; woldwide in scope

Question 54

Bonus Word: Rococo

Answer 54

(n) A style of art originating in the 18th century France marked by elaborate ornamentation (an abundance of scrolls, foliage, etc.); Extremely elaborate or complicated.