Vocabulary Quiz on Advanced Terms

Refinement

• The act of removing impurities or unwanted elements from a substance.

Clerk

• An official in charge of records for a local council or court.

Suppleness

• The ability to bend and move easily and gracefully. Synonymous with flexibility.

Inscrutable

• Impossible to understand or interpret.

Incessantly

• Without interruption; constantly.

Gallantries

• Polite attention, respect, or courteous gestures shown by men or women.

Usurers

• People who lend money at unreasonably high interest rates.

Resplendent

• Attractive and impressive due to rich colors or luxuriousness.

Homage

• Special honor or respect shown publicly.

Interloper

• Someone who intrudes in a place, situation, or activity without being welcome.

Precipitous

• Steep and abrupt.

Marauders

• Those who raid and loot.

Pinioned

• Restrained or immobilized.

Condolences

• An expression of sympathy.

Langour

• A lack of feeling or energy.

Reconciliation

• The resolution of a state of hostility.

Pestilential

• Likely to spread and cause disease.

Riotous

• Marked by or involving public disorder.

Spree

• A lively frolic or outing.

Petition

• A formally drawn request, often addressed to an authority.

Condemned

• Dejected in spirit, full of despair.

Downcast

• Pronounced guilty of a crime.

Flogged

• To beat with a whip or stick.

Fortnight

• Two weeks.

Traversing

• The act of travelling across.

Congenial

• Having the same tastes; compatible.

Monocle

• An eyeglass for one eye.

Wielded

• Employed or manipulated.

Derision

• Ridicule or mockery.

Palette

• A hand-held board on which an artist mixes paint.

Scarcely

• Only just; almost not.

Turrets

• Small towers usually extending upward from the corners of buildings.

Moat

• A water-filled ditch surrounding a castle.

Solicited

• To seek something.

Entice

• To lead on by exciting hope or desire.

Precedent

• An act, decision, or case that serves as a guide for subsequent situations.

Subsequent

• Occurring or coming after.

Injunction

• A command or order, often legal.

Laudable

• Deserving praise.

Marquis

• A nobleman ranking below a duke and above a count.

Annexed

• To attach, append, or add, especially to something larger.

Perilous

• Full of grave risk.

Pernicious

• Ruinous, injurious, hurtful.

Prevailing

• Predominant.

Stratagems

• A plan, scheme, or trick for surprising an enemy.

Epidemic

• A widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.

Evidently

• Plainly or obviously.

Poised

• Having a composed and self-assured manner.

Covey

• A small party or flock of birds, especially partridge.

Slack

• Not taut or held tightly in position, loose.