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English 1-50
Vocab Quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Impregnable | Incapable of being taken by assault, of being into or escaped from |
| Reproach | to blame for something; a disgrace |
| Dexterity | Skillful and active with the hands |
| Remonstrance/Remonstrance | To protest/ make objections |
| Augmented | To make greater of supplement |
| Impelled | To urge to drive forward (usually with moral pressure) |
| ascend | to move upward, to rise from a lower station |
| adamantine | inflexible,immovable,obstinate |
| conciliatory | to reconcile, pacify, renew a friendship |
| candid | blunt, sincere honesty |
| contempt | scorn, extreme dislike or disdain |
| corrugated | bent into folds |
| desolation | deserted, without inhabitants, barren |
| disdain | intense dislike, to treat with scorn or contempt, to reject as unworthy |
| despicable | very bad, contemptible |
| derision | scoffing at, mockery, ridicule |
| execrating | to free/disentangle |
| felicitous | happy or delightful |
| fortuitously | something that happens by accident or chance (usually good) |
| fermenting | state of agitation/commotion |
| gluttony | greedy for food and drink |
| imperiously | extremely overbearing |
| insolently | insulting or contemptuous behavior |
| ignominiously | disgraceful or dishonorable conduct |
| affinity | a likeness, natural relationship, kinship |
| lament | to mourn or express sorrow in a demonstrative way |
| loiter | stand idly or linger aimlessly |
| luster | shining or gleaming without sparkling |
| morbidity | abnormal or unhealthy interest |
| monotonous | sameness |
| melancholy | depression of spirits |
| blithe | lighthearted, joyous, glad,cheerful, free of spirit |