Vocabulary Quiz: Advanced Words
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What does the word 'desultory' mean?

  • similar to discord
  • having a lot of meaning
  • having a clear direction
  • aimless; disconnected; rambling (correct)

    • What is the definition of 'diaphanous'?

  • translucent; gossamer (correct)
  • thick and heavy
  • very thin and delicate
  • dark and unclear

    • What does 'ebullient' mean?

  • serious and strict
  • sad and depressed
  • bored and uninterested
  • bubbly and overflowing with enthusiasm (correct)

    • What is the meaning of 'emaciated'?

    <p>excessively thin; weak</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does 'equivocal' mean?

    <p>capable of two interpretations; ambiguous</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the definition of 'erudite'?

    <p>scholarly</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does 'exigent' mean?

    <p>urgent, requiring immediate attention</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the meaning of 'facetious'?

    <p>said in jest</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the meaning of 'alacrity'?

    <p>A cheerful willingness</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the opposite of 'euphonious'?

    <p>Cacophonous</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does 'ameliorate' mean?

    <p>To improve a bad situation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the meaning of 'antipathy'?

    <p>A hatred or aversion</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does 'bucolic' mean?

    <p>Typical of farms and rural life</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the meaning of 'capricious'?

    <p>Unpredictable and following whim</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does 'corroborate' mean?

    <p>To testify in agreement</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the meaning of 'credulity'?

    <p>A willingness to believe</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Study Notes

    Vocabulary

    • Adroit: skillful
    • Alacrity: cheerful willingness; eagerness
    • Allay: to soothe; to make more bearable
    • Ameliorate: to improve a bad situation
    • Amorphous: shapeless
    • Antipathy: hatred; aversion; dislike
    • Assuage: to ease, pacify
    • Audacity: boldness
    • Bawdy: obscene; coarse; humorous
    • Beguile: to trick
    • Berate: to scold severely
    • Blandishment: flattery
    • Bombastic: wordy or pompous in writing or speech
    • Bucolic: pastoral; typical of farms and rural life
    • Burgeon: to grow; flourish

    More Vocabulary

    • Cacophonous: bad sounding; antonym - euphonious
    • Calumny: slander; defamation
    • Capacious: spacious
    • Capricious: unpredictable; following whim
    • Castigate: to punish
    • Caustic: burning; characterized by a bitter wit
    • Ciliated: having tiny hairs
    • Cogent: clear; logical; well thought out
    • Cognizant: fully informed and aware; conscious
    • Commensurate: equal; proportional
    • Congenital: existing at birth
    • Conjugal: pertaining to marriage

    Even More Vocabulary

    • Contrition: remorse; repentance; guilt and regret felt because of wrong doing
    • Corpulent: obese; having a fat body
    • Corroborate: to testify in agreement
    • Covert: concealed
    • Credulity: gullibility
    • Cull: to select; to weed out
    • Dearth: scarcity
    • Desultory: aimless; disconnected; rambling
    • Diaphanous: translucent; gossamer

    The Rest of the Vocabulary

    • Discord: lack of harmony
    • Disparage: to belittle; reduce in esteem
    • Ebullient: bubbly; overflowing with enthusiasm
    • Edify: to enlighten; educate
    • Efface: to rub out
    • Emaciated: excessively thin; weak
    • Emulate: to imitate closely
    • Equivocal: capable of two interpretations; ambiguous
    • Erudite: scholarly
    • Eschew: to avoid, shun
    • Exigent: urgent, requiring immediate attention
    • Ethereal: not of the material world
    • Facetious: said in jest

    The Final Set of Vocabulary

    • Fallacious: false, wrong, incorrect
    • Fecund: fertile
    • Fetid: smelly
    • Flagrant: deliberately conspicuous; glaring
    • Foible: weakness, flaw
    • Foment: to stir up; agitate
    • Frenetic: frenzied; frantic
    • Fulminate: to explode; roar; denounce loudly
    • Garrulous: very talkative; loquacious
    • Germane: relevant; appropriate
    • Gossamer: light, delicate or insubstantial
    • Haggard: unruly; wild; wasted; worn
    • Harangue: mean, nasty, angry speech
    • Harbinger: forerunner; something that signals the approach of something
    • Hedonism: the philosophy of doing whatever gives you pleasure regardless of anyone else
    • Heinous: grossly wicked; vile; odious
    • Iconoclast: destroyer of tradition
    • Ignominy: dishonor; disgrace
    • Imbue: to make wet; saturate; to inspire
    • Imperious: domineering
    • Impropriety: not proper; not displaying propriety
    • Impugn: to attack as false
    • Incessant: nonstop; ceaseless
    • Indolence: laziness
    • Inept: incompetent
    • Ingenious: original; resourceful
    • Ingenuous: showing childlike simplicity; innocent
    • Insatiable: impossible to satisfy
    • Inscrutable: enigmatic; hard to understand
    • Insidious: working or spreading stealthily; sneaky, to do something bad

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    Test your knowledge of advanced vocabulary words with this quiz. Learn the meanings of words like adroit, alacrity, and audacity.

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