Homework #1 Words
Highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable.
A) Extraordinary
B) Repose
C) Transpire
A) Extraordinary
Lacking respectability in character, behavior or appearance.
A) Disreputable
B) Emphatically
C) Solemn
A) Disreputable
Characterized by a state of violent mental agitation.
A) Calamity
B) Dismal
C) Hysterical
C) Hysterical
An instrument from which a person is executed by hanging.
A) Gallows
B) Muster
C) Turpititude
A) Gallows
A facial expression of contempt or scorn.
A) Pall
B) Pallor
C) Sneer
C) Sneer
Unequivocally detestable.
A) Apocryphal
B) Abominable
C) Caper
B) Abominable
Passing reference or indirect mention.
A) Glimpse
B) Allusion
C) Disinter
B) Allusion
Struck with fear, dread, or consternation.
A) Appalled
B) Dire
C) Peril
A) Appalled
Changed in form or character without becoming something else.
A) Frenzy
B) Altered
C) Insurgent
B) Altered
A state of social isolation.
A) Disinter
B) Solitude
C) Repose
B) Solitude
Feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable.
A) Baffle
B) Disquietude
C) Trample
B) Disquietude
The property of being aggressive or forceful.
A) Ferocity
B) Hoarse
C) Brandish
A) Ferocity
Intense aversion.
A) Resolution
B) Repulsion
C) Exhorbitant
B) Repulsion
Seize and take control without authority.
A) Usurp
B) Muster
C) Iniquity
A) Usurp
Deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand.
A) Scarce
B) Insensate
C) Mangle
A) Scarce
A massive inexorable force.
A) Apropos
B) Caper
C) Juggernaut
C) Juggernaut
Difficult or impossible to understand.
A) Inscrutable
B) Elicit
C) Gaunt
A) Inscrutable
A cry of sorrow and grief.
A) Resolution
B) Dismal
C) Lamentation
C) Lamentation
Warning of future misfortune.
A) Premonitory
B) Turpitude
C) Inordinate
A) Premonitory
Steal goods; take as spoils.
A) Stringent
B) Ransack
C) Frenzy
B) Ransack
A primitive person who lived in a cave.
A) Troglodyte
B) Fiend
C) Pedantic
A) Troglodyte
Marked by care and persistent effort.
A) Mournful
B) Sedulous
C) Grave
B) Sedulous
Sad beyond comforting; incapable of being soothed.
A) Dismal
B) Involuntary
C) Disconsolate
C) Disconsolate
Evil or harmful in nature or influence.
A) Inordinate
B) Malign
C) Remedy
B) Malign
A corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice.
A) Fiend
B) Turpitude
C) Exorbitant
B) Turpitude