DE VOCAB| 95 QUESTIONS
folly Correct Answer: lack of good sense; foolishness.
"an act of sheer folly"
impede Correct Answer: delay or prevent (someone or something) by obstructing them; hinder.
"the sap causes swelling that can impede breathing"
indolent Correct Answer: wanting to avoid activity or exertion; lazy.
indolence Correct Answer: avoidance of activity or exertion; laziness.
"my failure is probably due to my own indolence"
invalid Correct Answer: a person made weak or disabled by illness or injury.
"an invalid husband"
parsimonious Correct Answer: unwilling to spend money or use resources; stingy or frugal.
"parsimonious New Hampshire voters, who have a phobia about taxes"
parsimony Correct Answer: extreme unwillingness to spend money or use resources.
"a great tradition of public design has been shattered by government parsimony"
raze Correct Answer: completely destroy (a building, town, or other site).
"villages were razed to the ground"
retort Correct Answer: answer; reply sharply
subvert Correct Answer: overturn or overthrow from the foundation
subversion Correct Answer: sabotage; undermining
tractable Correct Answer: easily led; taught
tractability Correct Answer: obedience
exhort Correct Answer: arouse by words; urge
exhortation Correct Answer: advice
gall Correct Answer: make sore; irritate
gall Correct Answer: brazen boldness; nerve
inane Correct Answer: lacking significance or sense
, inanity Correct Answer: foolishness
indemnify Correct Answer: compensate for loss, damage, injury
Occident Correct Answer: west; countries of America and Europe
occidental Correct Answer: western
peruse Correct Answer: read; look at fairly attentively; study
perusal Correct Answer: reading; study
scuffle Correct Answer: wrestle; grapple
scuffle Correct Answer: brawl; fight
spurn Correct Answer: reject
stipend Correct Answer: salary; fixed pay
surveillance Correct Answer: supervision; close watch over
tepid Correct Answer: moderately warm; lukewarm
tepidly Correct Answer: unenthusiastically; lukewarmly
wager Correct Answer: risk something on an outcome; bet
wager Correct Answer: bet
wane Correct Answer: dwindle; decrease in power or size
abhorrent Correct Answer: loathsome; odious; repugnant
abhor Correct Answer: hate; loathe
admonish Correct Answer: warn of a fault; caution
admonition Correct Answer: gentle warning; friendly reproof
ambrosial Correct Answer: pleasing to taste or smell
confine Correct Answer: shut up; imprison
confinement Correct Answer: imprisonment
folly Correct Answer: lack of good sense; foolishness.
"an act of sheer folly"
impede Correct Answer: delay or prevent (someone or something) by obstructing them; hinder.
"the sap causes swelling that can impede breathing"
indolent Correct Answer: wanting to avoid activity or exertion; lazy.
indolence Correct Answer: avoidance of activity or exertion; laziness.
"my failure is probably due to my own indolence"
invalid Correct Answer: a person made weak or disabled by illness or injury.
"an invalid husband"
parsimonious Correct Answer: unwilling to spend money or use resources; stingy or frugal.
"parsimonious New Hampshire voters, who have a phobia about taxes"
parsimony Correct Answer: extreme unwillingness to spend money or use resources.
"a great tradition of public design has been shattered by government parsimony"
raze Correct Answer: completely destroy (a building, town, or other site).
"villages were razed to the ground"
retort Correct Answer: answer; reply sharply
subvert Correct Answer: overturn or overthrow from the foundation
subversion Correct Answer: sabotage; undermining
tractable Correct Answer: easily led; taught
tractability Correct Answer: obedience
exhort Correct Answer: arouse by words; urge
exhortation Correct Answer: advice
gall Correct Answer: make sore; irritate
gall Correct Answer: brazen boldness; nerve
inane Correct Answer: lacking significance or sense
, inanity Correct Answer: foolishness
indemnify Correct Answer: compensate for loss, damage, injury
Occident Correct Answer: west; countries of America and Europe
occidental Correct Answer: western
peruse Correct Answer: read; look at fairly attentively; study
perusal Correct Answer: reading; study
scuffle Correct Answer: wrestle; grapple
scuffle Correct Answer: brawl; fight
spurn Correct Answer: reject
stipend Correct Answer: salary; fixed pay
surveillance Correct Answer: supervision; close watch over
tepid Correct Answer: moderately warm; lukewarm
tepidly Correct Answer: unenthusiastically; lukewarmly
wager Correct Answer: risk something on an outcome; bet
wager Correct Answer: bet
wane Correct Answer: dwindle; decrease in power or size
abhorrent Correct Answer: loathsome; odious; repugnant
abhor Correct Answer: hate; loathe
admonish Correct Answer: warn of a fault; caution
admonition Correct Answer: gentle warning; friendly reproof
ambrosial Correct Answer: pleasing to taste or smell
confine Correct Answer: shut up; imprison
confinement Correct Answer: imprisonment
