Vocabulary Quiz

• Prudish


  Narrow-minded; excessively concerned with morals
• Quixotic


  Impractically idealistic
• Stipple


  Cover with dots of paint etc.
• Abrasion


  1. Damage to skin caused by scraping; 2. Process of scraping or rubbing
• Adumbrate


  Outline; indicate
• Cognitive


  Concerned with thinking or perceiving
• Gall


  1. Bitterness (bad feeling); 2. Confidence; 3. Abnormal growth on a plant
• Levee


  1. Raised bank of a river; 2. Morning reception held by a monarch
• Preternatural


  Unnatural; abnormal
• Score (n)


  Written form of music
• Abut


  To adjoin
• Consternation


  Worry and concern
• Gavel


  Judge's hammer
• Lien


  Right to sell property held as a security; legal hold on job etc.
• Parenthesis


  Remarks deviating from the main point
• Sinewy


  Vigorous; having well-developed muscles
• Steep (v)


  To soak in water
• Tamp


  To plug; press loose matter down tightly (e.g. pack explosives into a hole)
• Venturing


  1. Hazarding; risking; putting forward; 2. Going somewhere
• Wry


  1. Twisted or bent to one side; 2. Dryly humorous
• Decimated


  Kill or destroy a large part of (originally one tenth)
• Fledge


  1. Grow feathers; 2. Leave nest
• Gouge


  Cut or dig out
• Picayune


  Insignificant; of little value
• Riveting


  Fascinating
• Soliloquy


  Solo speech
• Supplicant


  Person who requests or begs for something
• Transcendental


  Supernatural; going beyond normal experience
• Veritable


  True; genuine
• Condescension


  Talking down to someone
• Divest


  Remove; take off
• Eddy


  Circular current
• Epaulet


  Shoulder decoration
• Fallacy


  Wrong idea
• Fringe


  1. Decorative border with tassels (n); 2. To form an edge (v)
• Leaven


  To make light; modify; cause bread to rise using yeast etc.
• Patronize


  1. To talk down to; condescend; 2. To be a customer of
• Prominent


  1. Eminent; 2. Protruding; 3. Obvious
• Statute


  Law
• Antipathy


  Hatred