Vocabulary List #3 - Quizizz Style Quiz

What does 'abstruse' mean?

• a loud, forceful, angry speech; to criticize or try to persuade someone in a forceful, angry way

• fearlessly daring; bold

• obscure and not easily understood

• to disparage or criticize someone or something; to ruin someone's reputation

What does 'adulation' mean?

• 1. polite respect; 2. submission to another's wishes or judgment

• false; not genuine; being different from what it claims to be

• excessive flattery or admiration

• to force to act or think in a certain way; to compel

What does 'audacious' mean?

• to force to act or think in a certain way; to compel

• happening as a result of a lucky accident

• foolishly bold or daring

• fearlessly daring; bold

What does 'belie' mean?

• to misrepresent

• false; not genuine; being different from what it claims to be

• to banish or exclude from society or a particular group

• happening as a result of a lucky accident

What does 'cantankerous' mean?

• stingy; very frugal or ungenerous

• irritable; argumentative; easily angered

What does 'cathartic' mean?

• natural; inherent

• 1. polite respect; 2. submission to another's wishes or judgment

• foolishly bold or daring

• cleansing; purifying, often as a result of an intense emotional experience

What does 'coerce' mean?

• talkative

• clear

• fervent or passionate about something

• to force to act or think in a certain way; to compel

What does 'deference' mean?

• to ease or calm

• false; not genuine; being different from what it claims to be

• to disparage or criticize someone or something; to ruin someone's reputation

• 1. polite respect; 2. submission to another's wishes or judgment

What does 'denigrate' mean?

• to make less intense, severe, or violent; to make more moderate

• persistence

• known only to a few; obscure knowledge

• to disparage or criticize someone or something; to ruin someone's reputation

What does 'discomfit' mean?