Hidden Figures Vocabulary Quiz #1

Neatly skillful and quick in one's movements.

• Maverick

• Deft

• Dub

• Prestigious

The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way

• Melange

• Pragmatic

• Serendipity

• Charisma

Contract into wrinkles or folds.

• Dub

• Melange

• Deft

• Corrugate

A person or thing vital to an enterprise or organization

• Maverick

• Embodiment

• Linchpin

• Nepotism

In a state of severe disrepair

• Ramshackle

• Junket

• Hedge

• Foliage

An area undergoing rapid growth due to sudden prosperity.

• Linchpin

• Junket

• Ramshackle

• Boomtown

Having a rising and falling motion or appearance like that of waves

• Corrugate

• Undulant

• Deft

• Missive

Reject with disdain or contempt

• Spurn

• Shrewd

• Perpetrate

• Moot

An extravagant trip or celebration, in particular one enjoyed by a government official at public expense

• Boomtown

• Itinerant

• Junket

• Circumvent

A forceful and bitter verbal attack against someone or something.

• Diatribe

• Spurn

• Retort

• Dub