Hidden Figures Vocabulary Quiz #3

Showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks

• Defray

• Ingenuity

• Audacious

• Unabashed

Having or showing tenacity and grim persistence

• Aficionado

• Defray

• Dither

• Dogged

Having or showing an interest in learning things; curious

• Inquisitive

• Ingenuity

• Audacious

• Esoteric

Not embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed

• Dither

• Impugn

• Prowess

• Unabashed

Intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest

• Esoteric

• Forestall

• Gumption

• Zeal

The student ranking second highest in a graduating class who delivers an address or oration

• Prowess

• Salutatorian

• Aficionado

• Inquisitive

Restrict something within limits; Draw a figure around another, touching it at points but not cutting it

• Dither

• Scrawl

• Circumscribe

• Guild

Write something in a hurried, careless way

• Dither

• Scrawl

• Circumscribe

• Guild

Provide money to pay a cost or expense

• Defray

• Acquit

• Impugn

• Gumption

Great energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or an objective

• Esoteric

• Forestall

• Gumption

• Zeal