Vocabulary Quiz

What does the word "abdicate" mean?

• To officially renounce power or neglect to complete a responsibility or duty

• To make greater in size, quantity, and strength

• To make clear or plain especially by explanation

• Not capable of sin; faultless

What does "indomitable" mean?

• Easily discouraged or defeated

• Unconquerable

• Faultless

• Rising in active revolt

Which word means "to make greater in size, quantity, and strength"?

• Abdicate

• Augment

• Elucidate

• Impeccable

What is the meaning of the word "penitent"?

• Feeling sorrow for one's sins and being willing to repent

• Tending to destroy life

• To chew the cud

• Loud, harsh, and grating

What does "pestilent" mean?

• Tending to destroy life; dangerous to the moral, social, or political welfare of society

• To put off doing something until a future time

• To chew the cud

• Susceptible to wounds

What is the meaning of "procrastinate"?

• To put off doing something until a future time; to postpone habitually

• To chew the cud

• Loud, harsh, and grating

• Susceptible to wounds

What does "ruminate" mean?

• To chew the cud; to meditate or reflect on

• Loud, harsh, and grating

• Susceptible to wounds

• Tending to destroy life

What is the meaning of "strident"?

• Loud, harsh, and grating

• Susceptible to wounds

• To chew the cud

• Tending to destroy life

Which word means "to put forward until tomorrow"?

• Procrastinate

• Ruminate

• Strident

• Vulnerable

What is the meaning of the word "vulnerable"?

• Susceptible to physical or emotional harm

• Unconquerable

• To officially renounce power

• To make clear or plain especially by explanation