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Question 1

asperity

Answer 1

n. severity, rigor
n. acrimony, irritability

Question 2

profligate

Answer 2

adj. immoral
adj. recklessly extravagant

Question 3

profuse

Answer 3

adj. abundant
adj. freely giving or spending

Question 4

hapless

Answer 4

adj. unlucky, unfortunate, luckless

Question 5

prognostic

Answer 5

n. a prediction
adj. indicating future events

Question 6

proliferate

Answer 6

v. to grow and spread quickly

Question 7

puissant

Answer 7

adj. powerful, mighty

Question 8

prone

Answer 8

adj. lying face or front downward
adj. tending to behave or act a certain way

Question 9

propitiate

Answer 9

v. to appease

Question 10

ineffable

Answer 10

adj. incapable of being described in words

Question 11

propitious

Answer 11

adj. favorable

Question 12

propound

Answer 12

v. to propose or offer for certain consideration

Question 13

propriety

Answer 13

n. proper behavior

Question 14

precipitate

Answer 14

adj. acting with haste or on impulse
v. to cause or hasten an event

Question 15

prosaic

Answer 15

adj. common; unimaginative

Question 16

prudent

Answer 16

adj. practical; careful

Question 17

advert

Answer 17

v. to call or direct attention towards

Question 18

excoriate

Answer 18

v. to condemn scathingly

Question 19

insipid

Answer 19

adj. bland, trite

Question 20

sublimate

Answer 20

v. to change state of matter between solid and gaseous form without passing through a liquid stage
v. to modify the expression of an instinctual impulse in a socially acceptable manner

Question 21

expatiate

Answer 21

v. to discuss or write about at great length

Question 22

precipitous

Answer 22

adj. dangerously high or steep
adj. done hastily and without care

Question 23

necromancy

Answer 23

n. the practice of communicating with the spirits of the dead
n. black magic, black arts, or sorcery

Question 24

truculent

Answer 24

adj. cruel, ferocious, savage, brutal

Question 25

depravity

Answer 25

n. moral corruption or degradation