#2 Monday March 31

Question 0

Opaque

Answer 0

Impervious to light; difficult to understand

Question 1

Mettle

Answer 1

Courage, bravery; endurance; spirit, guts

Question 2

Penultimate

Answer 2

Next to last

Question 3

Penumbra

Answer 3

Partial shadow; cloudiness

Question 4

Plummet

Answer 4

To fall, to plunge

Question 5

Respite

Answer 5

Interval of relief; a break

Question 6

Resolution

Answer 6

Act of compensating for loss or damage

Question 7

Rustic

Answer 7

Rural, county, bucolic

Question 8

Single

Answer 8

To burn slightly, scorch

Question 9

Sheepish

Answer 9

Timid, meek, or bashful; ashamed

Question 10

Stalk

Answer 10

To hunt, to pursue

Question 11

Trounce

Answer 11

To beat severely, to defeat severely

Question 12

Tumult

Answer 12

State of confusion, agitation, turmoil

Question 13

Unequivocal

Answer 13

Absolute, certain, undeniable

Question 14

Veracity

Answer 14

Accuracy, truth

Question 15

Vacuous

Answer 15

Empty, void; lacking intelligence, purposeless

Question 16

Wayward

Answer 16

Erratic, unrestrained, reckless, disobedient

Question 17

Windfall

Answer 17

Sudden, unexpected good fortune

Question 18

Zealot

Answer 18

Someone passionately devoted to a cause

Question 19

Xenophobia

Answer 19

Fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers

Question 20

Burly

Answer 20

Brawny, husky

Question 21

Calamitous

Answer 21

Disastrous, catastrophic

Question 22

Citadel

Answer 22

Fortress or stronghold

Question 23

Disband

Answer 23

To break up

Question 24

Disarray

Answer 24

Clutter disorder

Question 25

Evade

Answer 25

To avoid, to dodge, to escape

Question 26

Euthanasia

Answer 26

Mercy killing; intentional, easy, and painless death

Question 27

Foliate

Answer 27

To grow, sprout leaves

Question 28

Foment

Answer 28

To arouse or incite, to increase, to encourage

Question 29

Grovel

Answer 29

To humble oneself in a demeaning way, to beg

Question 30

Gamely

Answer 30

Courageously

Question 31

Husband

Answer 31

To farm; to manage carefully and thriftily

Question 32

Hygienic

Answer 32

Clean, sanitary, disinfected, sterile

Question 33

Incontrovertible

Answer 33

Questionable, beyond dispute, unarguable

Question 34

Incorrigible

Answer 34

Incapable of being corrected, persistant and hopeless

Question 35

Inculcate

Answer 35

To teach, impress in the mind, to indoctrinate

Question 36

Lineage

Answer 36

Ancestry, heredity, family roots

Question 37

Litigation

Answer 37

Lawsuit, legal action

Question 38

Misnomer

Answer 38

An incorrect name or designation

Question 39

Mitigate

Answer 39

To soften, to make milder, to ease, to moderate