SET NINE--Quiz Date TBA
1. Acquiesce (verb): to submit silently or without protest
SYNONYMS: adapt, comply
2. Acumen (noun): an accurate, keen insight or judgment
SYNONYMS: shrewdness, intelligence
3. Burgeon (verb): to grow or develop rapidly
SYNONYMS: flourish, expand
4. Curt (adjective): rudely brief
SYNONYMS: abrupt, brusque
5. Diaphanous (adjective): almost completely transparent
SYNONYMS: translucent, filmy
6. Doctrine (noun): a fixed pattern of belief
SYNONYMS: principle, creed
7. Expertise (noun): an expert skill or knowledge
SYNONYMS: ability, expertness, proficiency
8. Foe (noun): a person who feels enmity, hatred, or malice toward another
SYNONYMS: enemy, antagonist
9. Fortnight (noun): fourteen days and nights
SYNONYMS: two weeks
10. Inclement (adjective): unfriendly or unsuitable,usually in surroundings or environment
SYNONYMS: stormy, severe
11. Innocuous (adjective): not harmful or injurious
SYNONYMS: harmless, inoffensive
12. Insolence (noun): contemptuously rude orimpertinent behavior or speech
SYNONYMS: arrogance, brazenness
13. Monotonous (adjective): boring or without change
SYNONYMS: tedious, repetitious
14. Pecuniary (adjective): pertaining to or consisting of money
SYNONYMS: financial, fiscal
15. Pejorative (adjective): tending to make or become worse
SYNONYMS: disparaging, deprecatory
16. Perfidy (noun): deliberatebreach of faith or trust
SYNONYMS: treachery, disloyalty
17. Proclivity (noun): natural or habitual inclination or tendency, especially toward something objectionable
SYNONYMS: bent, leaning, disposition
18. Pungent (adjective): sharply affecting the organs of taste or smell
SYNONYMS: piquant, sharp
19. Pry (verb): to inquire impertinently into private matters
SYNONYMS: snoop, peep
20. Relinquish (verb): to give up
SYNONYMS: surrender, abandon
21. Somnolent (adjective): tending to cause sleep
SYNONYMS: dormant, slumbering
22. Totalitarian (adjective): of or pertaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate parties of differing opinion and that exercises dictatorial control over many aspects of life
SYNONYMS: despotic, undemocratic
23. Traverse (verb): to pass or move over, along, or through; to look over, examine, or consider carefully
SYNONYMS: extend, cross
24. Usurp (verb): to seize and hold or use without right
SYNONYMS: arrogate, assume
25. Vociferous (adjective): vehement or noisy in making one’s feelings known
SYNONYMS: clamorous, vocal