Vocab Quiz #3

1. Debilitate – v. to weaken

2. Ebb – v.  to decline

3. Embroil – v. to involve in a quarrel

4. Fallacy – n. false idea; mistaken belief

5. Impartial – adj. fair; just; showing no favoritism

6. Inscrutable – adj. so mysterious that it cannot be understood

7. Lethargic – adj. drowsy; dull; sluggish; indifferent

8. Sobriety – n. seriousness, gravity or solemnity; absence of alcoholic intoxication

9. Tactless – adj. not having or showing a sense of what to do or say

10. Trepidation – n. a trembling, apprehension; a state of alarm and dread

11. Alienate – v. to turn away to normal feelings of fondness toward anyone; to estrange

12. Arduous – adj. hard to do; strenuous

13. Chimerical – adj. absurd; wildly fanciful

14. Colloquial – adj. conversational; used in informal speech or writing

15. Disdain – n. a feeling of contempt for anything that is regarded as unworthy; scorn

16. Garbled – adj. confused; mixed up (facts, statements, letters)

17. Meticulous – adj. very careful about details; fussy

18. Pompous – adj. self-importance; stately; magnificent excessively ornate

19. Respite – n. a temporary cessation or postponement , usually of something disagreeable; interval of rest

20. Scoff – v. to mock or jeer at; to make fun of