Brit Lit Vocab 8 Quiz

To exploit a weakness or enable a vice

• Puerile

• Asperity

• Pander

• Inveigh

Juvenile in a churlish way

• Puerile

• Aleatory

• Asperity

• Otiose

Wasteful, careless and immoral

• Exegesis

• Inveigh

• Vitiate

• Profligate

To repair a hurt, to reform or improve

• Asperity

• Pander

• Ameliorate

• Aleatory

Useless, futile

• Puerile

• Otiose

• Asperity

• Vitiate

Aleatory

• Something useless

• Something childish

• Something dependent on luck

• Something unquestionable

Lionize

• Charge something with electricity

• Transform something into a lion

• To improve or make something better

• To glorify something, treat something special

Asperity

• Relieve or alleviate

• Corrupt or contaminate

• Rough, severe, hard-core

• Disapproving, angry

Refusing to change, stubbornly resistant, oppositional

• Inveigh

• Recalcitrant

• Unimpeachable

• Renunciation

An explanation of a text, a literary analysis

• Exegesis

• Otiose

• Profligate

• Vitiate