Vocabulary Quiz 1

shameless boldness; nerve

• gall

• numismatist

• paucity

• obtrude

to deflect or evade a blow, especially in swordfighting

• parry

• cogitate

• obtrude

• alienate

to think deeply

• cogitate

• transpire

• parry

• pensive

to happen; to take place

• transpire

• gall

• obtrude

• epigram

a brutal, lawless person

• ruffian

• numismatist

• lackadaisical

• epigram

morally unrestrained

• licentious

• elated

• pensive

• fatalistic

a coin collector

• numismatist

• ruffian

• paucity

• gall

a scarcity; a lack

• paucity

• epigram

• obtrude

• transpire

believing that all events in life are inevitable and determined by fate

• fatalistic

• pensive

• lackadaisical

• elated

to force oneself into a situation uninvited

• obtrude

• alienate

• gall

• cogitate