Only an English Major Can Slay This Word Quiz

What is the meaning of enervate?

• surrender under agreed conditions

• meet to select a candidate or promote a policy

• weaken mentally or morally

• the quality of being honest and straightforward

• the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability

What is the meaning of pejorative?

• fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind

• pertaining to a code of beliefs accepted as authoritative

• no longer in force or use; inactive

• expressing disapproval

• an insufficient quantity or number

What is the meaning of winsome?

• conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible

• compulsory force or threat

• the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property

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

• charming in a childlike or naive way

What is the meaning of vestige?

• demanding immediate attention

• strive to equal or match, especially by imitating

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

• not belonging to that in which it is contained

• an indication that something has been present

What is the meaning of amorphous?

• having no definite form or distinct shape

• unfortunate and deserving pity

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

• a predisposition in favor of something

• necessary as a duty or responsibility; morally binding

What is the meaning of callous?

• necessary as a duty or responsibility; morally binding

• provoke or stir up

• a judicial remedy to prohibit a party from doing something

• liberality in bestowing gifts

• showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others

What is the meaning of exacerbate?

• a powerful circular current of water

• effusively or insincerely emotional

• make worse

• someone who exhibits independence in thought and action

• a central cohesive source of support and stability

What is the meaning of mendacious?

• injurious to physical or mental health

• not telling the truth; lying

• the lowest point of anything

• very generous

• stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing

What is the meaning of platitude?

• make obscure or unclear

• a strong liking

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

• appearing as such but not necessarily so

• a fervent and even militant proponent of something

What is the meaning of sanctimonious?

• showing little emotion

• complete and confirmed integrity

• making a show of being morally superior to other people

• extreme excess

• exceedingly harmful

What is the meaning of solicitous?

• full of anxiety and concern

• tough and callous by virtue of experience

• make impossible, especially beforehand

• stubbornly resistant to authority or control

• state or announce

What is the meaning of travesty?

• assign to a lower position

• cancel officially

• excessively abundant

• a false, absurd, or distorted representation of something

• postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal

What is the meaning of fallacious?

• based on a mistaken belief

• confidently optimistic and cheerful

• marked by quiet and caution and secrecy

• having or revealing little emotion or sensibility

• good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries

What is the meaning of denigrate?

• charge falsely or with malicious intent

• a lewd or lascivious person

• a feeling of anger caused by being offended

• being present everywhere at once

• a speech of violent denunciation

What is the meaning of arboreal?

• having a useful function

• of or relating to or formed by trees

• marked by skill in deception

• failing in what duty requires

• spread negative information about