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1st Semester Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abstract | ADJ- theoretical; non concrete |
| Acquiescent | ADJ- reluctantly agreeable; compliant |
| Benediction | NOUN- good wishes; a blessing |
| Bolster | VERB- to support; to reinforce |
| Capitulate | VERB- surrender; yield |
| Castigate | VERB- scold; punish |
| Despot | NOUN- tyrant |
| Discerning | ADJ- insightful; perceptive |
| Esoteric | ADJ- known to, or understood by, a limited group of people |
| Extemporaneous | ADJ- done without planning; improvised |
| Fastidious | ADJ- difficult to please |
| Flagrant | ADJ- openly and obviously evil; glaring; conspicuous |
| Garrulous | ADJ- very talkative; loquacious |
| Gullible | ADJ- easily deceived |
| Hackneyed | ADJ- unoriginal; trite |
| Heinous | ADJ- shockingly evil |
| Immutable | ADJ- unable to change |
| Impetuous | ADJ- taking sudden action; hasty; impulsive |
| Jocular | ADJ- joking; playful; jesting; witty |
| Judicious | ADJ- wise; making good decisions |
| Kindle | VERB- to start a fire; ignite; arouse |
| Lethargic | ADJ- tired; sluggish; drowsy |
| Loquacious | ADJ- talkative |
| Malediction | ADJ- evil speech; curse |
| Malign | VERB- to say evil or harmful things about someone; defame; vilify |
| Neophyte | NOUN- beginner |
| Nostalgic | ADJ- wishing for a return to the way things used to be; longing for the past; homesick |
| Obsucre | ADJ- hazy; unfamiliar; difficult to understand |
| Onerous | ADJ- burdensome; oppressive |
| Paltry | ADJ- worthless; insignificant; petty |
| Obsequious | ADJ- behaving like a meek, spineless servant; subservient; sycophantic |
| Mundane | ADJ- ordinary; earthly (not spiritual); practical; temporary |
| Pithy | ADJ- to the point; concise |
| Affable | ADJ- friendly; easygoing |
| Obtuse | ADJ- dull; blunt; unintelligent; lacking sharpness |
| Resign | VERB- give in; acquiesce; relinquish |
| Serpentine | ADJ- coiled; twisted; winding |
| Timorous | ADJ- afraid |
| Vagrant | NOUN- homeless person; wanderer |
| Precarious | ADJ- risky; uncertain |
| Quandary | NOUN- a state of confusion or doubt; dilemma |
| Rampant | ADJ- unrestrained; widespread |
| Reticent | ADJ- quiet; uncommunicative |
| Spurious | ADJ- false; fake; misleading |
| Stoic | NOUN- a person who shows no response to pleasure or pain; some who is impassive |
| Terse | ADJ- of few words; to the point; pithy |
| Trepidation | NOUN- fear |
| Ubiquitous | ADJ- existing everywhere at the same time |
| Unkempt | ADJ- messy; sloppy |
| Usurp | VERB- to seize or take over by force |
| Despondent | ADJ- feeling hopeless or depressed |
| Endorse | VERB- promote; recommend |
| Choler | NOUN- anger |
| Fledgling | NOUN- beginner |
| Gravity | NOUN- seriousness |
| Impede | VERB- get in the way; hinder |
| Myriad | ADJ- large number; many |
| Relegate | VERB- reduce or demote to an inferior place or position; banish |
| Anathema | NOUN- a religious curse, or the thing or person being cursed |
| Antithesis | NOUN- opposite |
| Belie | VERB- to give an impression that is the opposite of way things really are; to misrepresent |
| Bombast | NOUN- speech or writing intended to impress the audience; pompous |
| Coalesce | VERB- unite; grow together |
| Enervate | VERB- sap the strength; weaken |
| Ethereal | ADJ- heavenly; fine; delicately beautiful |
| Evasive | ADJ- tending to avoid giving direct answers |
| Furtive | ADJ- sneaky; secretive |
| Hedge | VERB- to avoid giving a clear answer; thereby escaping responsibility or blame |
| Hiatus | NOUN- gap; interruption; a break in continuity; a pause |
| Impasse | NOUN- a situation from which you cannot escape; stalemate |
| Inscrutable | ADJ- mysterious |
| Latent | ADJ- existing but inactive such as a certain quality; dormant; invisible |
| Magnate | NOUN- a person of great power |
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