12th-Grade Vocabulary Quiz

Question: haughty

Answer: The wordhaughty means “blatantly and disdainfully proud.” Usage example: “haughty aristocrats.”

Question: amicable

Answer: The wordamicable means “characterized by friendly goodwill.” Usage example: “anamicable agreement.”

Question: clairvoyant

Answer: The wordclairvoyant means “able to see beyond the range of ordinary perception.” Usage example: he “claims to beclairvoyant.”

Question: evanescent

Answer: The wordevanescent means “tending to vanish like vapor.” Usage example: “beauty that is asevanescent as a rainbow.”

Question: anachronism

Answer: The wordanachronism means “an error in chronology.” Usage example: “found severalanachronisms in the movie.”

Question: ephemeral

Answer: The wordephemeral means “lasting a very short time.” Usage example: “ephemeral pleasures.”

Question: ostentatious

Answer: The wordostentatious means “attracting or seeking to attract attention, admiration, or envy often by gaudiness or obviousness.” Usage example: “anostentatious display of wealth/knowledge.”

Question: zealot

Answer: Azealot is a fanatical partisan. Usage example: “a religiouszealot.”

Question: enervate

Answer: The wordenervate means “to lessen the vitality or strength of.” Usage example: “a lifetime of working in dreary jobs hadenervated his very soul.”

Question: superfluous

Answer: The wordsuperfluous means “exceeding what is sufficient or necessary.” Usage example: “cleared off all thesuperfluous stuff on his desk to make room for the new computer.”