Vocabulary Quiz: Words and Their Meanings

Vocabulary List

Words related to Negation

• Abrogate: to officially cancel or abolish a law, system, or practice
• Cancel: to officially stop something from happening or existing
• Repeal: to officially cancel or abolish a law
• Revoke: to officially take back or cancel something
• Rescind: to officially cancel or withdraw something
• Annul: to officially cancel or make something invalid
• Nullify: to make something invalid or of no effect
• Invalidate: to make something invalid or of no effect
• Negate: to deny or cancel something
• Quash: to officially cancel or suppress something
• Reject: to refuse to accept or agree with something

Words related to Time and Frequency

• Annual: happening or done once a year
• Delay: to put off or procrastinate something
• Defer: to put off or delay something
• Loiter: to waste time by doing nothing
• Uphold: to support or maintain something

Words related to Emotions and Personal Qualities

• Adulation: extreme admiration or praise
• Obsequious: excessively eager to please or obey
• Amicable: friendly or peaceful
• Assertive: having or showing a strong and confident personality
• Timorous: lacking confidence or courage
• Unobtrusive: not drawing attention to oneself
• Hostile: unfriendly or aggressive
• Chivalric: showing respect and courtesy towards women
• Audacious: bold or daring

Words related to Change and Development

• Accede: to agree or accept something
• Proceed: to continue or move forward with something
• Assess: to evaluate or judge something
• Praise: to express admiration or approval
• Advance: to move forward or make progress
• Reduce: to make something smaller or less in amount or degree
• Halt: to stop or bring to an end
• Abuse: to use or treat something in a wrong or harmful way
• Adorn: to make something more attractive or beautiful

Words related to Size and Quantity

• Abundant: having a large amount of something
• Exigency: a situation in which something is urgently needed
• Apex: the highest or most important point
• Gradual: happening or done slowly and steadily
• Brutal: savagely violent or harsh
• Affable: friendly and pleasant
• Innocuous: harmless or not likely to cause harm

Words related to Conflict and Opposition

• Antagonize: to provoke or opposes someone
• Adversity: a difficult or unpleasant situation
• Absolve: to set someone free from a responsibility or obligation
• Belligerent: strongly aggressive or hostile
• Confront: to face or challenge someone
• Contrary: opposed to or against something
• Curb: to control or limit something

Words related to Human Behavior

• Affection: a strong feeling of love or fondness
• Affectation: a pretentious or artificial way of behaving
• Benevolent: showing kindness and generosity
• Blasphemous: showing disrespect or contempt for God or something sacred
• Bumptious: excessively self-confident or assertive
• Callous: showing no sympathy or concern for others
• Cautious: careful to avoid risks or dangers

Words related to Learning and Knowledge

• Absorb: to take in and understand information
• Acquire: to gain or obtain something, especially knowledge or skills
• Assemble: to bring together or gather information
• Assimilate: to absorb and understand new information
• Cerebral: relating to the brain or intellectual activity
• Conceive: to imagine or think of an idea
• Conflate: to combine or merge different ideas or things

Grammar and Sentence Structure

• Various sentence structures and grammatical concepts are illustrated throughout the text, including active and passive voice, verb tenses, and clause constructions.

Etymology and Word Roots

• Many words in the text have Latin or Greek roots, which are highlighted throughout the notes.
• Understanding the roots and prefixes of words can help in deciphering their meanings and relationships to other words.### Vocabulary Building
• Atonement: making up for a wrong or mistake
• Expedient: quick and efficient solutions
• Eloquent: fluent and persuasive in speech
• Engender: to produce or cause something to happen
• Emphasize: to give special importance to something
• Estranged: separated or disconnected from someone or something
• Evocative: bringing strong images or memories to mind
• Expedient: quick and efficient solutions
• Foment: to encourage or stir up something, such as a reaction or conflict
• Fleeting: lasting for a very short time
• Florid: highly decorated or elaborate
• Fortitude: strength or courage in the face of adversity
• Furtive: secretive or sly
• Garrulous: talkative or loquacious
• Genuflect: to bend one knee, especially as a sign of respect
• Ghastly: extremely unpleasant or frightening
• Glib: speaking or spoken in a smooth and confident way
• Harrowing: causing great distress or fear
• Heterogeneous: composed of different kinds of things
• Histrionic: overly dramatic or theatrical

List of Words

• Galvanize: to shock or excite someone into taking action
• Garrulity: the quality of being talkative
• Gigantic: extremely large or impressive
• Glean: to gather or collect information
• Gnaw: to bite or chew slowly and persistently
• Gobble: to eat quickly and greedily
• Graft: to join or unite two things
• Grandiose: impressive or magnificent in scale or design
• Grapple: to struggle or contend with someone or something
• Grip: to hold or grasp something firmly
• Groggy: feeling dazed or disoriented
• Guile: cunning or deceitful behavior
• Hale: strong and healthy

More Words

• Hapless: unfortunate or unlucky
• Harrow: to cause great distress or fear
• Hazy: unclear or difficult to see
• Hug: to hold or squeeze someone or something tightly
• Hullabaloo: a noisy and excited commotion
• Hydra: a mythical monster with many heads
• Hypnotic: having a powerful and attractive quality
• Hysteric: extremely upset or agitated
• Icy: extremely cold or unfriendly
• Idiot: a person who is foolish or stupid
• Ignoble: dishonorable or unworthy
• Insipid: lacking flavor or interest

Even More Words

• Insolent: rudely or impertinently behaved
• Inscrutable: difficult to understand or interpret
• Innocuous: harmless or innocuous
• Inscrutable: difficult to understand or interpret
• Inundate: to flood or overwhelm with something
• Inured: accustomed to or experienced in something
• Invective: strongly abusive or critical language
• Inveigh: to speak or write strongly against something
• Invidious: causing or feeling envy or resentment
• Invigorate: to give new energy or strength to something
• Jubilant: feeling or expressing great joy or triumph
• Jocular: good-naturedly humorous or playful
• Judicious: having, showing, or done with good judgment
• Kaleidoscopic: constantly changing and multicolored
• Kempt: neatly and tidily kept or organized

Final List of Words

• Ken: to know or understand something

• Kibosh: to put an end to something

• Kith: friends and family

• Klutz: a clumsy or awkward person

• Knead: to work dough or other material with the hands

• Knell: a mournful or ominous sound

• Knee-jerk: an automatic or instinctive reaction

• Knit: to make fabric by interlacing yarn

• Knotty: complicated or difficult to understand

• Kosher: conforming to the regulations of Jewish dietary law

• Kowtow: to show respect or submission

• Kvell: to feel or express great pride or pleasure

• Lachrymose: given to or expressing excessive sadness

• Languid: lacking energy or enthusiasm

• Lassitude: a feeling of tiredness or lethargy### Vocabulary Building

• Moribund means dying or decaying

• Magniloquent means boastful or pompous

• Misprize means to despise or denigrate

• Mere means only or just

• Mores refers to customs or traditions

• Magnitude refers to extent or size

• Momentous can mean either temporary or important

• Monotonous means boring or dull

• Mercurial means capricious or fickle

• Metamorphosis means change or transformation

• Masticate means to chew

• Mawkish means over-sentimental or emotional

• Manifest means to show or display

• Muster means to gather or collect

• Mercenary means loving money or material gain

• Manacles refers to handcuffs or chains

• Mordant means sarcastic or bitter

• Mellifluous means sweet or melodious

• Myriad means abundant or plentiful

More Vocabulary

• Mollify means to soothe or calm down
• Modify means to alter or change
• Moot means controversial or disputable
• Magnificent means impressive or grand
• Menace means danger or threat
• Morass means confusion or muddle
• Meagre means less or trivial
• Morose means sullen or sad
• Mammoth means huge or enormous
• Melancholy means sad or dismal
• Masterly means skilled or expert
• Mettle means courage or fortitude
• Multitude means a large crowd or mass
• Memoir means a record or diary

Yet More Vocabulary

• Nimble means agile or quick
• Nurtured means developed or grown
• Negligent means careless or reckless
• Neophyte means beginner or rookie
• Nugatory means barren or infertile
• Nonplussed means puzzled or confused
• Nebulous means uncertain or unclear
• Niggardly means miserly or stingy
• Nasty means unpleasant or bad
• Noisily means loudly or vociferously
• Naïve means innocent or credulous
• Narrative means a tale or story
• Noob means beginner or novice
• Natty means smart or dapper
• Nauseous means sick or unwell
• Navigate means to direct or guide
• Novelty means newness or freshness
• Nincompoop means a fool or incompetent
• Nectar means ambrosia or elixir
• Negate means to rebut or refuse
• Nullify means to annul or reject
• Nefarious means wicked or villainous
• Neglect means to disregard or ignore
• Negligible means minimal or insignificant
• Negotiable means flexible or open to change
• Nuance means a minor difference or subtlety