Vocabulary Quiz #20

Define 'defiance'.

•  readily or easily seen, open to
  being viewed; capable of being easily understood or recognized; obvious,
  outward, clear, visible

• to avoid
  or escape someone or something by being quick, skillful or clever; to fail to
  be understood or remembered by someone; escape, avoid, dodge, evade, get away,
  circumvent

• a
  refusal to obey something or someone; the act of defying or challenging someone
  or something; willingness to fight or contend; disobedience, rebellion,
  opposition, challenge

• to fall
  over as one has fainted usually do to weakness; collapse, drop, faint, pass
  out, slump over, swoon, tumble

What does 'indignant' mean?

•  feeling or showing anger because of
  something that is unfair or wrong, angered, displeased, furious, upset, irate,
  livid

• feeling
  or showing doubt about doing something; not willing or eager to do something;
  hesitant, reticent, disinclined, uncertain, unwilling, opposed

• refusal to obey something or someone; the act of defying or challenging someone
  or something; willingness to fight or contend; disobedience, rebellion,
  opposition, challenge

• afraid
  that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen; feeling or showing fear
  about something to occur in the future; fearful, afraid, concerned, doubtful

What is the definition of 'contemptuous'?

• very violent

• feeling
  or showing deep hatred or extreme disapproval; disdainful, disrespectful,
  insulting, scornful

• disdainful

•  to avoid
  or escape someone or something by being quick, skillful or clever; to fail to
  be understood or remembered by someone; escape, avoid, dodge, evade, get away,
  circumvent
  

What does the word 'apparent' mean?

•  afraid
  that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen; feeling or showing fear
  about something to occur in the future; fearful, afraid, concerned, doubtful
  

• feeling that someone or something is not worthy of any respect or approval; a
  lack of respect for or fear of something that is usually respected or feared;
  defiance, hatred, malice, scorn

• readily or easily seen, open to
  being viewed; capable of being easily understood or recognized; obvious,
  outward, clear, visible

• all of the above

What does 'hysterics' refer to?

•  uncontrolled laughter, crying, or
  extreme emotion; a fit of uncontrollable emotion; weeping, outcry, frenzy,
  madness

•  feeling or showing anger because of
  something that is unfair or wrong, angered, displeased, furious, upset, irate,
  livid

• feeling
  or showing doubt about doing something; not willing or eager to do something;
  hesitant, reticent, disinclined, uncertain, unwilling, opposed

• afraid
  that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen; feeling or showing fear
  about something to occur in the future; fearful, afraid, concerned, doubtful

What happens when someone 'keels over'?

• to fall
  over as one has fainted usually do to weakness; collapse, drop, faint, pass
  out, slump over, swoon, tumble
  

•  feeling
  or showing doubt about doing something; not willing or eager to do something;
  hesitant, reticent, disinclined, uncertain, unwilling, opposed

• uncontrolled laughter, crying, or
  extreme emotion; a fit of uncontrollable emotion; weeping, outcry, frenzy,
  madness
  

• all of the above

How would you describe someone who is 'reluctant'?

•  readily or easily seen, open to
  being viewed; capable of being easily understood or recognized; obvious,
  outward, clear, visible

•  feeling
  or showing deep hatred or extreme disapproval; disdainful, disrespectful,
  insulting, scornful

• feeling
  or showing doubt about doing something; not willing or eager to do something;
  hesitant, reticent, disinclined, uncertain, unwilling, opposed

•  to fall
  over as one has fainted usually do to weakness; collapse, drop, faint, pass
  out, slump over, swoon, tumble

Apprehensive

• refusal to obey something or someone; the act of defying or challenging someone
  or something; willingness to fight or contend; disobedience, rebellion,
  opposition, challenge
  

• feeling that someone or something is not worthy of any respect or approval; a
  lack of respect for or fear of something that is usually respected or feared;
  defiance, hatred, malice, scorn
  

•  afraid
  that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen; feeling or showing fear
  about something to occur in the future; fearful, afraid, concerned, doubtful

•  readily or easily seen, open to
  being viewed; capable of being easily understood or recognized; obvious,
  outward, clear, visible
  

Contempt

• feeling that someone or something is not worthy of any respect or approval; a
  lack of respect for or fear of something that is usually respected or feared;
  defiance, hatred, malice, scorn

• afraid
  that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen; feeling or showing fear
  about something to occur in the future; fearful, afraid, concerned, doubtful

• refusal to obey something or someone; the act of defying or challenging someone
  or something; willingness to fight or contend; disobedience, rebellion,
  opposition, challenge
  

•  uncontrolled laughter, crying, or
  extreme emotion; a fit of uncontrollable emotion; weeping, outcry, frenzy,
  madness

Elude

• feeling
  or showing deep hatred or extreme disapproval; disdainful, disrespectful,
  insulting, scornful
  

• refusal to obey something or someone; the act of defying or challenging someone
  or something; willingness to fight or contend; disobedience, rebellion,
  opposition, challenge

•  to avoid
  or escape someone or something by being quick, skillful or clever; to fail to
  be understood or remembered by someone; escape, avoid, dodge, evade, get away,
  circumvent
  

• over as one has fainted usually do to weakness; collapse, drop, faint, pass
  out, slump over, swoon, tumble