Vocab Quiz 11

Wednesday April 10th

Aesthetic

Pertaining to beauty; sensitive or responsive to beauty.

Asperity

Roughness, severity, bitterness or tartness

Cautious

Excessively ready to find fault: given to petty criticism; intended to trap, confuse, or show up.

Delectable

An appealing or appetizing food or dish

Ebullient

Repugnant, repulsive, distasteful.

Espouse

To take up and support; to become attached to, adopt, to marry

Hapless

Marked by persistent absence of good luck

Impecunious

Having little or no money

Inexorable

Inflexible, beyond influence, relentless, unyielding

Interpolate

To insert between other parts or things; to present as an addition or correction.

Languish

To become weak, Febe, or dull; to droop; to be depressed or dispirited; to suffer neglect

Machination

Crafty, scheming, or underhanded action designed to accomplish some (usually evil) end

Moratorium

A suspension of activity; an official waiting period; an authorized period of delay.

Obsequious

Marked by slavish attentiveness; excessively submissive, often for purely self interested reasons.

Opprobrium

Disgrace arising from shameful conduct; contempt; reproach

Pariah

One who is rejected by a social group or organization.

Pittance

A woefully meager allowance, wage or portion

Plaintive

Expressive of sorrow or woe, melancholy

Rebuff

To snub; to repel, drive away; a curt rejection, a check

Requite

To make suitable repayment, as for kindness, service, or favor; to make retaliation, as for an injury or wrong; to reciprocate.