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Question 1

Amortize

Answer 1

verb: to pay off or liquidate.

Question 2

Audacious

Answer 2

adjective: Fearlessly daring; invulnerable to fear or intimidation. (inexorable)

Question 3

Candor

Answer 3

noun: Honesty or expression.

Question 4

Capitulate

Answer 4

verb: To submit utterly and completely. (acquiesce).

Question 5

Captious

Answer 5

adjective: Marked by a disposition to find and point out trivial faults.

Question 6

Coercion

Answer 6

noun: Force or the power to use force in gaining compliance.

Question 7

Culpable

Answer 7

adjective: Guilty; responsible for wrongdoing.

Question 8

Endemic

Answer 8

adjective: Belonging to a particular area.

Question 9

Extol

Answer 9

verb: To praise highly. (exalt, glorify)

Question 10

Inimical

Answer 10

adjective: Hostile; unfriendly.

Question 11

Insentient

Answer 11

adjective: Unfeeling; without sensation. (callous)

Question 12

Insidious

Answer 12

adjective: Operating or proceeding in an inconspicuous or seemingly harmless way but actually with grave effect.

Question 13

Insolent

Answer 13

adjective: Insulting and arrogant. (imperious, impertinent, impudent)

Question 14

Legerdemain

Answer 14

noun: Trickery; sleight of hand. (chicanery, guile)

Question 15

Matriculate

Answer 15

verb: To enroll or register in a college or university as a candidate for a degree.

Question 16

Maudlin

Answer 16

adjective: Overly sentimental; too much sentiment for effect.

Question 17

Misanthrope

Answer 17

noun: One who hates or mistrusts or is cynical of humankind.

Question 18

Mitigate

Answer 18

verb: To soften, make milder; to moderate. (assuage, allay, extenuate, palliate)

Question 19

Moiety

Answer 19

noun: A part, portion, or share.

Question 20

Nihilism

Answer 20

noun: The belief that existence and all traditional values are meaningless.

Question 21

Obfuscate

Answer 21

verb: To confuse; obscure; to be difficult to perceive or understand.

Question 22

Obstreperous

Answer 22

adjective: Troublesome; boisterous; unruly. (Churlish, tumultuous, fractious)

Question 23

Omnipotent

Answer 23

adjective: Having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force; all-powerful; supreme.

Question 24

Panacea

Answer 24

noun: A remedy for all diseases.

Question 25

Panegyric

Answer 25

noun: Elaborate praises or laudation. (encomium, homage, kudos)

Question 26

Paragon

Answer 26

noun: A model or pattern of excellence or perfection; an archetype.

Question 27

Pathos

Answer 27

noun: A quality that arouses pity, sympathy, tenderness, or sorrow.

Question 28

Quixotic

Answer 28

adjective: Caught up in the romance of noble deeds and the pursuits of unreachable goals.

Question 29

Quotidian

Answer 29

adjective: Occurring daily; commonplace. (banal, diurnal)

Question 30

Raconteur

Answer 30

noun: One who tells stories and anecdotes with skill and wit.

Question 31

Reconnoiter

Answer 31

verb: To explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody; surveillance; to survey.

Question 32

Ribald

Answer 32

adjective: Characterized by or indulging vular, lewd humor.

Question 33

Spurious

Answer 33

adjective: Neither genuine, authentic, nor true;

Question 34

Sycophant

Answer 34

noun: A person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage.

Question 35

Ubiquitous

Answer 35

adjective: Being or seeming to be everywhere at the same time. (omnipresent).