English Vocab Quiz #1

Opulently

Wealthy, rich, or affluent

Complexion

The natural color, texture, and appearance of a person's skin, especially of the face

Lurid

Very vivid in color, especially so as to create an unpleasantly harsh or unnatural effect

Exasperating

Intensely irritating and frustrating

Indolent

Wanting to avoid activity or exertion. Being lazy

Furtively

To do something in a way that it is unnoticed or in secret

Obsequious

Showing servile obedience and excessive eagerness to please

Vivacity

The quality of being attractively lively and animated

Pilfer

Something pilfered is stolen stealthily, so that no one will notice, in small amounts or often again and again

Complacency

A feeling of smug or uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's achievements

Ostensible

Stating or appearing to be true, but not necessarily so

Palmistry

The art or practice of supposedly interpreting a person's character or predicting their future by examining the lines and other features of the hand, especially the palm and finger

Provision

The act of providing or supplying something, especially essential items like food or resources

Squarely

Directly without deviating to one side

Sordid

Sordid is an adjective that means morally ignoble or base, vile, meanly selfish, dirty or filthy, or wretchedly poor and run-down

Saunter

To walk in a slow, leisurely manner, without hurry or effort

Treachery

Betrayal of trust; deceptive action or nature

Forlorn

Pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely

Irremediable

Impossible to cure or put right, unfixable

Diligence

The quality of working carefully and with a lot of effort

Pantograph

An instrument for copying a drawing or plan on a different scale by a system of hinged and jointed rods

Gait

A person’s manner of walking