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Question 1

Astringent

Answer 1

Binding, Causing contraction, harsh, severe

Question 2

Atavism

Answer 2

resemblance to remote ancestors rather than to parents, reversion to an earlier type, throwback

Question 3

attenuate

Answer 3

make thinner, weaken, lessen

Question 4

augury

Answer 4

omen, prophesy

Question 5

august

Answer 5

impressive, majestic

Question 6

aureole

Answer 6

sun’s corona

Question 7

avarice

Answer 7

greediness for wealth

Question 8

aver

Answer 8

assert confidently or declare, as used in law, state formally as a fact

Question 9

avocation

Answer 9

secondary or minor occupation

Question 10

avuncular

Answer 10

like an uncle

Question 11

axiom

Answer 11

self evident truth requiring no proof

Question 12

azure

Answer 12

sky blue

Question 13

bacchanalian

Answer 13

drunken

Question 14

badinage

Answer 14

teasing conversation

Question 15

bait

Answer 15

harass, tease

Question 16

baleful

Answer 16

threatening, menacing, sinister, foreshadowing evil

Question 17

balk

Answer 17

stop short as if faced with an obstacle, and refuse to continue

Question 18

balk

Answer 18

foil

Question 19

banal

Answer 19

hackneyed, commonplace, trite, lacking originality

Question 20

bandy

Answer 20

discuss lightly or glibly, exchange words heatedly