Vocab Quarter #1 Study

What is the correct definition of the word apathy?

• proper, becoming, suitable

• lack of feeling, absence of emotion

• ready to accept control or instruction; submissive

What is the correct definition of the word assiduous?

• showing great care and perseverance

• treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor

• sluggish, drowsily lazy

What is the correct definition of the word wry?

• bitter and abusive language

• speak or write about in an abusively disparaging manner

• indirect, twisted

What is the correct definition of the word vilify?

• speak or write about in an abusively disparaging manner

• bitter and abusive language

• unexpressed but understood

What is the correct definition of the word vituperation?

• self-pityingly or tearfully sentimental, often through drunkenness

• bitter and abusive language

• excessively frugal, penny pinching

What is the correct definition of the word ubiquitous?

• everywhere at the same time

• unexpressed but understood

• fluent and voluble but insincere and shallow

What is the correct definition of the word truculent?

• a strict disciplinarian, especially in the armed forces

• eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant

• kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of

What is the correct definition of the word tacit?

• unexpressed but understood

• a solution or remedy for all difficulties or disease

• display (something) ostentatiously, especially in order to provoke envy or admiration or to show defiance

What is the correct definition of the word surreptitious?

• kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of

• a solution or remedy for all difficulties or disease

• treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor

What is the correct definition of the word parsimonious?

• silly and pointless

• Make up for (guilt or sin)

• excessively frugal, penny pinching