C2 Vocabulary

What is "Avarice"?

• Unrestrained by convention or propriety

• requiring secret or mysterious knowledge

• Liveliness or eagerness

• Reprehensible acquisitiveness, insatiable desire for wealth

What is "Brusque"?

• Rudely abrupt or blunt in speech or manner

• Emotionally hardened

• Careful to consider potential consequences and avoid risk

• diffusing warmth and friendliness

What does "Chide" mean?

• Make peace with

• Scold or reprimand severely or angrily

• Agree or express agreement

• The quality of being honest and straightforward

What does "Confidant" mean?

• Treat or speak of with contempt

• The feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself

• Someone to whom private matters are told

• Increasing by successive addition

What does "Feral" mean?

• Wild and menacing

• A state of deep-seated ill-will

• Careful to consider potential consequences and avoid risk

• Secret and sly or sordid

What does "Innate" mean?

• A state of extreme dishonor

• Limit the range or extent of

• Incapable of being appeased or pacified

• Present at birth but not necessarily hereditary

What does "Morose" mean?

• Showing a brooding ill humor

• A state of extreme dishonor

• Marked by precise accordance with details

• Impossible to satisfy

What is "Novice"?

• Rudely abrupt or blunt in speech or manner

• Someone new to a field or activity

• Lacking conscious awareness of

• diffusing warmth and friendliness

What is "Obtuse"?

• attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery

• of an angle, between 90 and 180 degrees, also annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand

• Lacking conscious awareness of

• Attractively old fashioned

What does it mean to "Vex"?

• Disturb, especially by minor irritations

• Refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid

• Improve the appearance or functionality of

• The act of examining or reading carefully