Vocabulary Quiz - Adjectives

Vocabulary Quiz - Adjectives

• Agog: enthralled
• Ambiguous: cryptic/uncertain
• Appeasement: pacification/conciliation
• Ardour: enthusiasm
• Acquiescent: passive
• Arbitrary: whimsical/chance
• Appraise: estimate/judge
• Adulatory: complimentary/laudatory
• Animosity: hostility/hate/contempt
• Assiduous: hardworking
• Autonomous: independent/self-reliant
• Astute: preceptive/insightful/adroit
• Assuaging: comforting/soothing/making less severe/encouraging
• Altruistic: unselfishly concerned to the welfare of others/charitable/philanthropic
• Auspicious: promising success/favourable/favoured by fame
• Abrasive: harsh/rough/no need
• Affable: friendly/pleasant to talk to
• Brusque: blunt/surly
• Bemused: confused + slightly amused
• Blundering: awkward
• Bereft: devoid
• Benevolent: generous
• Belated: late/slow
• Beatific: joyful
• Brassy: vulgar/loud-to-the-senses
• Bewildered: shocked + confused
• Brooding: discouraged/forlorn
• Chagrin: displeasure
• Confounded: confused
• Chastened: admonished/conscience-stricken
• Curt: abrupt/rude
• Callous: cruel/insensitive
• Conniving: evil/conspiring
• Cowed: afraid
• Caustic: bitter/scathing/sarcastic
• Churlish: crude/boorish
• Crudite: raw
• Cogent: effective
• Contrite: remorseful
• Cogitative: thoughtful
• Covert: clandestine/surreptitious/secretly
• Corpulent: fat
• Credulous: naïve
• Chagrined: abashed
• Cloying: sentimental
• Consternated: to dismay/confuse/terrify
• Contemptuous: disrespectful/disdainful
• Cynical: distrust in human sincerity/integrity
• Diplomatic: conciliatory/tactful/politic
• Defiant: disobedient
• Disgruntled: unhappy/disappointed
• Deranged: insane/unbalanced/unhinged
• Daunted: overwhelmed
• Discomfited: uncomfortable
• Doleful: mournful
• Diffident:
• Dour: gloomy/grim
• Demurred: disagreed/hesitate
• Discomposed: distraught
• Discountenanced: rejected/opposed
• Doting: indulgent/serving
• Didactic: educational/erudite
• Deferential: considerate
• Dyspeptic: crabby/cantankerous/petulant
• Dogmatic: opinionated/dictatorial
• Disparaging: criticising/belittling/reproachful/derogatory
• Dismayed: perturbed/alarmed
• Derisive: mocking
• Deferred: delayed/postponed
• Digressive: rambling/departing from main subject
• Domineering: inclined to rule in an arbitrarily/despotically
• Despotic: dictatorial
• Disingenuous: insincerely/ lack of frankness/hypocritically
• Defamatory: unjustified injury of good reputation of someone/derogatory
• Equanimous: even/stable
• Erudite: well educated
• Edifying: enlightening/illuminating
• Exacerbate: worsen/annoy
• Explicit: specific/unambiguous
• Emphatic: strongly expressive
• Fervid: enthusiastic
• Facetious: kidding
• Feisty: spirited
• Frenzied: extremely/wildly enthusiastic/uncontrolled
• Forlorn: sad from feeling of abandonment/loneliness
• Figurative: symbolic/figure-of-speech
• Flippant: lacking seriousness or sincerity/frivolous
• Frivolous: lacking seriousness
• Galled: annoyed
• Glib: slick/smooth/readily fluent often thoughtlessly
• Genial: affable/friendly
• Gregarious: friendly
• Garrulous: excessively loquacious/talkative
• Heedless: carless/thoughtless/indifferent/apathetic
• Haughty: arrogant
• Hale: healthy
• Harrowing: frightening/dangerous
• Hysterical: uncontrollably emotional
• Haggard: worn/weakened
• Insubordinate: rebellious
• Incongruous: absurd/bizarre
• Impotent: powerless
• Idiosyncratic: eccentric
• Insolent: disrespectful
• Inept: unskilful/incompetent
• Implacable: cruel/merciless
• Imprudent: thoughtless/without thought/careless
• Irascible: crabby/irritable
• Inimical: antagonistic/contrary
• Impish: mischievous
• Irreverent: disrespectful
• Insouciant: casual/easy-going
• Indelicate: vulgar/obscene
• Insightful: perceptive/understanding/intelligent
• Impetuous: unthinking/involuntary
• Ingratiating: fawning/servile/seeking favour by flattery
• Ineffectual: without decisive effect/without satisfactory
• Ire: angry/intensely emotional state if displeased/ wrath
• Jaundiced: prejudiced
• Jesting: joking/clowning
• Jubilant: immense joy/satisfaction
• Jocular: funny
• Lithe: grateful (Note: likely a typo, should be 'lithe' = supple)
• Languid: lethargic
• Lewd: indecent/vulgar
• Loquacious: talkative
• Lucid: evident/obvious/intelligible
• Laudatory: complimentary
• Malleable: impressionable/adaptable/flexible
• Meek: shy/compliant/submissive
• Maudlin: teary/over-emotional
• Moribund: stagnant
• Magnanimous: charitable/kind/generous
• Mirthful: merciful (Note: likely a typo, should be 'Mirthful' = merry)
• Musing: pensive
• Mordant: sarcastic/sardonic
• Mollifying: bland
• Melancholy: sad in gloomy/pensive way
• Morose: sullen/gloomy
• Memento: serves as a reminder of person or past event
• Moody: unreasonable irritation
• Non-plussed: confused/confounded
• Neurotic: obsessive/compulsive
• Needling: sarcastic/sardonic
• Ornery: mean
• Obsequious: submissive/grovelling
• Obstreperous: noisy/uncontrolled/boisterous
• Overweening: arrogant
• Overwrought: paranoid/nervous excitement & anxiety
• Overbearing: domineering/arrogant
• Perverse: troublesome
• Plucky: brave
• Plaintive: pathetic/mournful
• Pandering: indulging
• Petulant: moody/crabby/cantankerous
• Parsimonious: close/tight €
• Prudish: coy/reserved
• Perfunctory: involuntary/automatic
• Punctilious: careful/finicky
• Pompous: arrogant/egotistical
• Pernicious: dangerous/harmful
• Punitive: punishing
• Pithy: brief/forceful & meaningful in expression
• Pious: religious/dedicated
• Prostrate: submissive
• Phlegmatic: unemotional/apathetic
• Placating: conciliatory/willing to end disagreements/appeased/pacified
• Pragmatic: sensible
• Paranoid: overwrought/nervous excitement & anxiety
• Pertinacious: resolute/stubborn/obstinate
• Patronising: arrogant/condescending
• Probing: exploring in a searching way/perceptive/insightful
• Prying: interfering/meddling/unnecessarily curious (intrusive)
• Perceptive: insightful/intelligent
• Piqued: offended/resentful after slight or indignity
• Quixotic: idealistic
• Rapt: engrossed/absorbed
• Remonstrate: to argue
• Reticent: reserved/unsociable/secretive/quiet
• Resolute: determined
• Recreant: cowardly/yielding
• Rambunctious: noisy/boisterous
• Refined: cultured/civilised
• Reproachful: disapproved/disappointed
• Relief: pleasant & relaxed when something unpleasant stops or does not happen
• Spurning: ignoring
• Stoic: enduring/philosophic
• Sanguine: optimistic
• Splenetic: angry
• Senescent: aged/elderly
• Supercilious: arrogant
• Sanctimonious: self-righteous/hypocritical
• Sequestered: isolated/cloistered/reclusive/sheltered
• Seraphic: angelic
• Staid: restrained/dignified
• Scathing: nasty/critical in remarks
• Shrewd: clever/intelligent
• Saccharine: ingratiating/cloyingly agreeable
• Snide: derogatory in nasty, insinuating manner
• Sneering: mocking/condemnation/sarcastic
• Sullen: ill-humoured/morose
• Skirmishing: fighting/in combat
• Tactless: blunt
• Titillated: aroused/enthusiastic
• Taunting: reproaching/challenging in scornful way/insulting way
• Tentative: experimental
• Trepidation: tremulous fear/alarm/perturbation
• Unperturbed: composed/calm
• Unscrupulous: immoral
• Unfeigned: sincere/genuine
• Unctuous: excessively flattering or ingratiating
• Uncouth: clumsy/uncultivated
• Unsparing: generous/ruthless
• Uninhibited: candid/unrestrained/fee/easy
• Unerring: accurate throughout/no error/flaw/not going astray or off-topic
• Vigilant: attentive
• Vapid: flat/dull
• Virulent: pernicious/lethal
• Vindictive: hateful
• Verbose: wordy
• Vindicated: cleared/pardoned/freed
• Wistful: contemplative
• Wheedling: fulsome
• Whimsical: playful/fanciful
• Witty: funny & clever – unique/intentive humour
• World-weary: distrust in human sincerity/integrity