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Vocab 15-16
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Noxious | harmful to the health |
| Connive | conspire |
| Chutzpah | nerve |
| Liege | king |
| Odium | hatred |
| Crass | crude |
| Hypercritical | overcritical |
| Fallacy | misconception |
| Complacent | confident |
| Befuddle | confuse |
| Pandemonium | chaos |
| Parsimonious | cheap |
| Verbose | prolix |
| Laudable | admirable |
| Indiscreet | flagrant |
| Pique | irritate |
| Linguistics | scientific study of the meaning of language |
| Plebeian | lowly |
| Precocious | advanced |
| Predatory | pillaging |
| Prowess | power |
| Pugnacious | combative |
| Purloin | steal |
| Pusillanimous | fearful |
| Quell | calm |
| Quixotic | very idealistic |
| Rabble | a mob |
| Rabid | raging |
| Raconteur | person skilled at telling stories |
| Vindictive | seeking revenge |