Vocabulary Quiz: Word Meanings

Vocabulary

• Absurdity: the quality of being ridiculous or unreasonable
• Automatic: done or occurring without human intervention
• Ban: to officially prohibit or forbid something
• Compensate: to give someone something, usually money, to make up for a loss or problem
• Content: the substance or material dealt with in a written work, speech, etc.
• Cosmetic: relating to beauty or appearance, especially in a superficial way

Verbs

• Decline: to become weaker or less in amount or degree
• Defeat: to overcome or frustration in a struggle or contest
• Defend: to protect or support someone or something against attack or criticism
• Deliver: to take or bring something to someone or somewhere
• Deprive: to take something away from someone or something
• Embed: to fix or set something firmly in a surrounding material
• Establish: to create or start something, such as an organization or system
• Extract: to remove or obtain something from something else
• Ginseng: a type of plant used in traditional medicine, especially in Asia
• Idealistic: having high or unrealistic standards or ideals
• Inevitable: certain to happen and impossible to avoid
• Insert: to put or introduce something into something else
• Integrate: to combine or unite different things to create a new whole
• Intention: a purpose or goal
• Interrupt: to stop or disturb someone or something
• Invisible: unable to be seen or noticed

More Verbs

• Maintain: to keep or continue something in a certain condition
• Perspective: a particular point of view or way of regarding something
• Primary: most important or influential
• Profit: a financial gain or benefit
• Promote: to support or encourage something, especially to help it to grow or succeed
• Retain: to keep or continue to hold something, such as a position or a memory
• Ruin: to cause something to be completely destroyed or spoiled
• Sincerity: the quality of being honest and genuine

Expressions

• Spree: a period of time when someone engages in a particular activity with great enthusiasm
• Stereotype: a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing
• Stir: to cause something to happen or to start moving
• Be the talk of the town: to be the subject of much conversation or gossip
• Out of stock: not having any available supply of something
• Pop out: to suddenly appear or emerge
• Pros and cons: the advantages and disadvantages of something
• Result in: to have something as a consequence or outcome
• Take into consideration: to think about or give attention to something when making a decision
• Under control: being managed or directed effectively

Vocabulary

• Absurdity: the quality of being ridiculous or unreasonable
• Automatic: done or occurring without human intervention
• Ban: to officially prohibit or forbid something
• Compensate: to give someone something, usually money, to make up for a loss or problem
• Content: the substance or material dealt with in a written work, speech, etc.
• Cosmetic: relating to beauty or appearance, especially in a superficial way

Verbs

• Decline: to become weaker or less in amount or degree
• Defeat: to overcome or frustration in a struggle or contest
• Defend: to protect or support someone or something against attack or criticism
• Deliver: to take or bring something to someone or somewhere
• Deprive: to take something away from someone or something
• Embed: to fix or set something firmly in a surrounding material
• Establish: to create or start something, such as an organization or system
• Extract: to remove or obtain something from something else
• Ginseng: a type of plant used in traditional medicine, especially in Asia
• Idealistic: having high or unrealistic standards or ideals
• Inevitable: certain to happen and impossible to avoid
• Insert: to put or introduce something into something else
• Integrate: to combine or unite different things to create a new whole
• Intention: a purpose or goal
• Interrupt: to stop or disturb someone or something
• Invisible: unable to be seen or noticed

More Verbs

• Maintain: to keep or continue something in a certain condition
• Perspective: a particular point of view or way of regarding something
• Primary: most important or influential
• Profit: a financial gain or benefit
• Promote: to support or encourage something, especially to help it to grow or succeed
• Retain: to keep or continue to hold something, such as a position or a memory
• Ruin: to cause something to be completely destroyed or spoiled
• Sincerity: the quality of being honest and genuine

Expressions

• Spree: a period of time when someone engages in a particular activity with great enthusiasm
• Stereotype: a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing
• Stir: to cause something to happen or to start moving
• Be the talk of the town: to be the subject of much conversation or gossip
• Out of stock: not having any available supply of something
• Pop out: to suddenly appear or emerge
• Pros and cons: the advantages and disadvantages of something
• Result in: to have something as a consequence or outcome
• Take into consideration: to think about or give attention to something when making a decision
• Under control: being managed or directed effectively