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Question 1

Ostentatious

Answer 1

Characterized by vulgar or pretentious display; designed to impress or attract notice

Question 2

Philanthropic

Answer 2

Generous in assistance to the poor

Question 3

Precept

Answer 3

Rule of personal conduct

Question 4

Profligate

Answer 4

Recklessly wasteful

Question 5

Pun

Answer 5

A humorous play on words

Question 6

Quixotic

Answer 6

Not sensible about practical matters

Question 7

Recumbent

Answer 7

Lying down; reclining

Question 8

Salver

Answer 8

A small serving tray

Question 9

Snare

Answer 9

A trap for catching birds or animals; a thing likely to lure or tempt someone into harm

Question 10

Surmise

Answer 10

Infer from incomplete evidence

Question 11

Tutelage

Answer 11

Protection of or authority over someone or something; guardianship

Question 12

Utilitarian

Answer 12

Designed to be useful or practical rather than attractive

Question 13

Vacillate

Answer 13

Waver between two choices; be undecided

Question 14

Advection

Answer 14

Horizontal transfer of heat or other atmospheric properties

Question 15

Affinity

Answer 15

A natural attraction or feeling of kinship

Question 16

Alacrity

Answer 16

Promptness or eager and speedy readiness

Question 17

Anon

Answer 17

Soon

Question 18

Baseness

Answer 18

Unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values

Question 19

Beguile

Answer 19

To charm, deceive, cheat

Question 20

Beseech

Answer 20

beg

Question 21

Billet

Answer 21

Accommodation or house temporarily for people in the armed forces

Question 22

Bombast

Answer 22

Pompous or pretentious talk or writing

Question 23

Caitiff

Answer 23

Coward

Question 24

Castigation

Answer 24

Verbal punishment

Question 25

Catechize

Answer 25

Teach about Christianity