Only an English Major Can Slay This Word Quiz

What is the meaning of enervate?

• the quality of being honest and straightforward

• the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability

• weaken mentally or morally

• meet to select a candidate or promote a policy

• surrender under agreed conditions

What is the meaning of pejorative?

• no longer in force or use; inactive

• an insufficient quantity or number

• fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind

• pertaining to a code of beliefs accepted as authoritative

• expressing disapproval

What is the meaning of winsome?

• charming in a childlike or naive way

• call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response

• compulsory force or threat

• conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible

• the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property

What is the meaning of vestige?

• choose and follow a theory, idea, policy, etc.

• demanding immediate attention

• strive to equal or match, especially by imitating

• an indication that something has been present

• not belonging to that in which it is contained

What is the meaning of amorphous?

• a predisposition in favor of something

• a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess

• having no definite form or distinct shape

• necessary as a duty or responsibility; morally binding

• unfortunate and deserving pity

What is the meaning of callous?

• liberality in bestowing gifts

• provoke or stir up

• showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others

• necessary as a duty or responsibility; morally binding

• a judicial remedy to prohibit a party from doing something

What is the meaning of exacerbate?

• someone who exhibits independence in thought and action

• a powerful circular current of water

• effusively or insincerely emotional

• make worse

• a central cohesive source of support and stability

What is the meaning of mendacious?

• very generous

• not telling the truth; lying

• injurious to physical or mental health

• stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing

• the lowest point of anything

What is the meaning of platitude?

• a fervent and even militant proponent of something

• make obscure or unclear

• appearing as such but not necessarily so

• a remark that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful

• a strong liking

What is the meaning of sanctimonious?

• complete and confirmed integrity

• showing little emotion

• exceedingly harmful

• making a show of being morally superior to other people

• extreme excess

What is the meaning of solicitous?

• state or announce

• stubbornly resistant to authority or control

• make impossible, especially beforehand

• full of anxiety and concern

• tough and callous by virtue of experience

What is the meaning of travesty?

• assign to a lower position

• cancel officially

• excessively abundant

• postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal

• a false, absurd, or distorted representation of something

What is the meaning of fallacious?

• confidently optimistic and cheerful

• based on a mistaken belief

• good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries

• marked by quiet and caution and secrecy

• having or revealing little emotion or sensibility

What is the meaning of denigrate?

• a lewd or lascivious person

• being present everywhere at once

• a feeling of anger caused by being offended

• a speech of violent denunciation

• charge falsely or with malicious intent

What is the meaning of arboreal?

• of or relating to or formed by trees

• marked by skill in deception

• having a useful function

• spread negative information about

• failing in what duty requires