Vocabulary Quiz: Emotions and Actions

Nurturer

• Someone who provides care and protection to a young child, animal, or plant, to help it grow.

Prominent

• Distinguished, eminent, or well-known.

Transgression

• A crime or act that violates a law, command, or moral code.

Awed

• A feeling of amazement and respect mixed with fear.

Fidgeting

• Moving around restlessly, absent-mindedly, or uneasily.

Sleek

• Attractively smooth and shiny.

Churn

• To stir or beat something violently.

Palpable

• So intense as to be almost able to be felt physically.

Distraught

• Agitated with doubt, mental conflict, or pain.

Apprehensive

• Fearful; worried that something bad will happen.

Defiant

• Deliberately and openly disobedient.

Chastise

• To punish or scold somebody.

Petulantly

• Ill-tempered or sulky in a peevish manner.

Humiliation

• Loss of dignity; feeling lessened in pride.

Remorse

• A strong feeling of guilt and regret.

Nondescript

• Having no interesting or remarkable characteristics.

Mystified

• Made somebody unable to understand something.

Rehabilitation

• Helping someone return to good health or a normal life through training or therapy.

Disgrace

• Shame or loss of respect arising from bad behavior.

Serene

• Calm and untroubled; without worry, stress, or disturbance.

Fragile

• Easily broken; not having a strong structure.

Disquieting

• Disturbing; alarming; taking away peace or tranquility.

Stirrings

• Rousing; inspiring.

Dosage

• The addition of an ingredient in a measured amount.

Interdependence

• A relationship where each member is mutually dependent on the others.

Exuberant

• Extreme or excessive in degree, size, or extent.

Somber

• Dark and gloomy.

Infringe

• To encroach upon in a way that violates law or rights of another.

Gravitate

• To be drawn or attracted to something.

Buoyancy

• The tendency of a body to float or rise in a fluid.

Meticulously

• Marked by extreme or excessive care.

Exasperated

• To enrage or cause irritation.

Acquisition

• The act of getting something as one's own.

Cringe

• To draw in muscles involuntarily.

Avert

• To turn away or aside.

Piecemeal

• One piece at a time; gradually.

Crescendo

• A gradual increase in volume of a musical passage.

Indolence

• Inclination to laziness; sloth.

Integrity

• Firm adherence to a code of moral or artistic values; incorruptibility.

Rigorous

• Harsh; severe; very strict.

Spontaneously

• Arising from a momentary impulse; controlled internally.

Dwelling

• A shelter where people live.

Relish

• Strong enjoyment of or delight in something; strong liking.

Exempted

• Free from liability or requirement.

Dismayed

• Upset or cause to lose courage due to fear.

Awkwardness

• Lacking in ease, skill, or grace.

Hastily

• Quickly; hurriedly.

Excruciating

• Causing great pain or anguish.

Diminished

• Made less or caused to appear less.

Embossed

• Raised in relief from a surface; adorned.

Exhilarating

• To make cheerful and excited.