Vocabulary Quiz 20/56

What does "contempt" refer to?

• A continuous flow of questions or criticisms

• The feeling that a person or a thing is worthless or beneath consideration

• Something that supplements or complements something else

• To cause someone to change course or turn from one direction to another

What is the definition of "divert" as given in the document?

• To eat food hungrily or quickly

• To make or become wider, larger, or more open

• To cause (someone or something) to change course or turn from one direction to another

• To lose strength or momentum

How is "excursion" defined in the document?

• A bold or extravagant gesture or action

• A short journey or trip, especially one taken as a leisure activity

• To consider one thing to be the same as or equivalent to another

• With sincere and intense conviction

Which word describes the tendency to choose or do something regularly?

• Pedant

• Pry

• Proclivity

• Pyre

What does "stagnant" mean?

• Showing no activity; dull and sluggish

• Calm, dependable, and showing little emotion or animation

• Scatter or spread (things) untidily over a surface or area

• Make great efforts to achieve or obtain something

What is the definition of "treason"?

• The crime of betraying one's country, especially by attempting to kill or overthrow the government

• An overwhelming outpouring of (something, typically

• A place or position affording a good view of something

• Full of poison; of malice or spite

What is the definition of "Vantage"?

• a clearing in a field

• a place or position affording a good view of something

• taking advantage of someone or something

• beginning of something

What is the definition of "avenge"?

• inflict harm in return for (an injury or wrong done to oneself or another)

• something that supplements or complements something else

• to be clothed in

• a continuous flow of questions, criticisms, or information

What is the definition of "equate"?

• move in a quivering way; flicker

• pay no attention to; ignored

• come together from different directions so as eventually to meet

• consider (one thing) to be the same as or equivalent to another

What is the definition of "warily"?

• full of poison; of malice or spite

• to do something cautiously; carefully

• distribute or spread over a wide area

• a state of complete emptiness or destruction