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Question 1

dissociate

Answer 1

v. to consider as separate
v. to break away

Question 2

dissonant

Answer 2

adj. not in agreement; discordant
adj. unpleasant or harsh sounding

Question 3

distend

Answer 3

v. to swell or widen

Question 4

distill

Answer 4

v. to make pure
v. to take out from

Question 5

divest

Answer 5

v. to deprive or dispossess
v. to dispose of assets

Question 6

doctrinaire

Answer 6

adj. following a theory without regard for practical reality

Question 7

elate

Answer 7

v. to fill with optimism or excitement

Question 8

elegy

Answer 8

n. a mournful poem or song

Question 9

elucidate

Answer 9

v. to make easier to understand

Question 10

emaciate

Answer 10

v. to make or become thin

Question 11

emollient

Answer 11

adj. having the effect of softening

Question 12

venal

Answer 12

adj. capable of being bought or bribed; mercenary; corruptible

Question 13

doggerel

Answer 13

n. trivial, poorly constructed verse
adj. comic, burlesque; loose and irregular

Question 14

manse

Answer 14

n. a clergyman’s house
n. a mansion

Question 15

nexus

Answer 15

n. a connected series; a tie or link
n. the center or focus

Question 16

promulgate

Answer 16

v. to make openly known; to officially announce

Question 17

dross

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n. slag, waste or foreign matter; impurity

Question 18

demure

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v. to take exception; to object
n. an objection

Question 19

felicitous

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adj. appropriate, suitable (as of a comment); well chosen

Question 20

veritable

Answer 20

adj. authentic, real, true

Question 21

impassive

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adj. showing no emotion; stoic; unmoved

Question 22

hermetic

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adj. airtight, impervious to outside influence; isolated

Question 23

fracas

Answer 23

n. a noisy fight or quarrel

Question 24

eminence

Answer 24

n. a place of high rank

Question 25

epigram

Answer 25

n. a witty saying