Vocabulary Quiz

Admonish means:

• To counsel against, punish

• To support

• To leave something

• To be successful in something.

Bemoan

• To help someone

• To complain to about a situation

• To receive something

Impugn

• To buy something

• To convince someone

• To earn something

• To challenge as false or wrong

Obfuscate means:

• To confuse a situation, sometimes to convince others to support an idea by making it seem more serious or correct than is

• To take something away

Placate means:

• To give someone something to convince them to support or forgive one self

• To keep something in one place.

• To demobilize something.

quidproquo means:

• Something that is tall.

• Something done in return for something, perhaps for business.

Dichotomy:

• Similarity between two things.

• Contrast between different or opposing things.

Credence

• Trust in something.

• Distrust in something.

Dilettante

• Someone who learns a little about something but cannot talk in-depth about it.

• Something difficult.

Zenith

• The limit, top, or peak of something.

• The start of something.