Word Meanings Quiz

Word Meanings

• Effervescent: Lively, high-spirited, enthusiastic
• Mawkish: Excessively sentimental, often silly
• Parsimonious: Frugal to the point of stinginess
• Perspicacious: Having mental perception and understanding
• Spurious: Not genuine, authentic, true, or sincere
• Surreptitious: Marked by stealth and secrecy
• Tantamount: Equal in value, meaning, or effect
• Truculent: Easily annoyed and always ready to argue or fight
• Visceral: Instinctive feelings not based on reason or logic
• Imperтинently: Not showing proper respect
• Inconspicuously: Not noticeable or prominent
• Ingeniously: Creatively or imaginatively
• Inquisitively: Given to inquiry, research, or asking questions
• Judiciously: In a way that shows good judgment
• Obnoxiously: Highly objectionable or offensively
• Reluctantly: Feeling or showing hesitation, aversion, or unwillingness
• Solemnly: In a dignified and thoughtful way
• Unethically: Against proper rules of conduct or morality
• Acknowledge: To admit the existence or truth of; to show appreciation for
• Accost: To approach and address someone in a bold or aggressive way
• Compensate: To pay for work done, for something lost or damaged, or for some inconvenience; to adjust or make up for
• Decimate: To reduce drastically, especially in number
• Defer: To put off or to delay
• Justify: To show to be just or right
• Litigate: To use the judicial process to decide and settle something
• Malign: To speak about or criticize in a harmful way
• Obfuscate: To make unclear
• Copious: Abundant in supply or quantity
• Culinary: Related to the kitchen or cooking
• Ebullient: Overflowing with cheerfulness, enthusiasm, or excitement
• Frugal: Showing economy in the use of money and/or resources
• Grandiose: Excessively ambitious; larger than life
• Heterogeneous: Consisting of diverse elements that may not seem to fit together
• Homogeneous: Of the same kind or nature
• Immutable: Unchanging over time or unable to be changed
• Obsequious: Too eager to please someone, often in an insincere way

Additional Terminology

• Words associated with emotions or behaviour (in the text): feelings, conduct, morality, aggression
• Words related to actions or situations (in the text): inquiry, research, address, pay, reduce, delay, use, criticize, make, settle, adjust, approach, show