Week 7 Vocab

Multiple Choice

An orator is mostly likely to be comforatble doing which of the following?

• speaking to a large group of people

• exploring an unfamiliar terrain

• climbing a mountain

• taking a standardized test

​A person giving a speech is called an orator, like the gifted orator who raised excellent points, making everyone in the audience want to join his revolution.

Multiple Choice

novice means:

• a skilled worker who practices a trade

• someone new to a field or activity

• a person who repents for wrongdoing

• a person who is tricked or swindled

​If you're a novice at snowboarding, you're just learning the sport. On the Internet, a novice might be called a newbie, but your parents would call one a beginner.

Multiple Choice

nonchalant means:

• hilarious

• casual

• fateful

• tedious

​If your friend is acting cool, unconcerned or in an indifferent manner, call him nonchalant — like when he saunters by a group of girls and just nods and says, "Hey."

Multiple Choice

precocious means:

• talented

• studious

• sensible

• aggressive

​That high school hoops phenom who plays like an NBA pro? The sixth grader who's already asking questions about organic chemistry? They're both precocious — meaning they're way beyond their years in skill or knowledge.

Multiple Choice

mundane means:

• unremarkable

• invisible

• imperceptible

• unyielding

​An ordinary, unexciting thing can be called mundane: "Superman hid his heroic feats by posing as his mundane alter ego, Clark Kent."

Multiple Choice

longevity means:

• lack of sophistication or worldliness

• the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light

• duration of service

• defiance of authority

​Something with longevity has the ability to last for a long time. While tortoises are not known for their quickness, their longevity is amazing. Just ask the Hare.

Multiple Choice

facetious means:

• supernatural

• heart-to-heart

• inappropriate humor

• overambitious

​Don’t take a facetious comment seriously because it’s supposed to be funny. Anything facetious is a joke. If you've just won a hotdog-eating contest and someone asks if you'd like to go out for burgers, they’re probably being facetious.

Multiple Choice

ostentatious means:

• intended to attract notice and impress others

• concerned with the world or worldly matters

• originating outside the body

• generally incompetent and ineffectual

​Reach for the adjective ostentatious when you want a flashy way to say — well, "flashy" or "showy."

Multiple Choice

opulent means:

• inflexible

• political

• fickle

• rich

​Opulent is a word that you will hear a lot around rich people looking to show off. "Remember the opulent buffet at Carrie’s sweet sixteen? Sixteen chocolate cakes iced in gold leaf!"

Multiple Choice

parched means:

• reflecting light

• producing a sizeable profit

• free from control or responsibility

• very dry

​Something parched is excessively dry and hot, in extreme need of water, like a desert, a neglected plant, or your throat after a 10k run.