Feelings and Attitudes Quiz

Feelings and Attitudes

• Indignant: Feeling or showing anger; example: A teacher feeling indignant after being disrespected.
• Precarious: Dangerous or unsafe; example: Feeling precarious while about to fall off a ladder.
• Foreboding: Fearful apprehension of something bad happening. Example: Feeling a foreboding sense that someone is about to be kidnapped.
• Ardor: Enthusiasm or passion; example: Having great ardor for softball.
• Aloof: Distant and reserved, not warm or friendly; example: An ex-boyfriend described as aloof.
• Contemptible: Deserving contempt; despicable; example: A thief stealing Christmas gifts is contemptible.

Actions and Situations

• Imminent: About to happen; example: Being in imminent danger during a tornado.
• Infallibility: The inability to be wrong; example: Impaired judgment due to faith in one's infallibility.
• Profusion: An abundance or large quantity; example: A profusion of roses.
• Mediation: Intervention by a third party to resolve a dispute; example: Encouraging mediation before court.
• Adversary: An enemy or opponent; example: Competing against an old adversary.
• Abominably: Very unpleasantly or unfairly; example: Being treated abominably by a coach.
• Travail: Painful or laborious effort; example: The travail involved in creating a problem.
• Revelry: Noisy merrymaking; example: Sounds of revelry from a nearby party.
• Restitution: Restoration of something lost or stolen; example: Paying restitution for wrecking a rental car.

Judgement and Description

• Preposterous: Contrary to reason or common sense; utterly absurd.