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Question 1

To pontificate

Answer 1

to speak or express opinions in a pompous or dogmatic way

Ex: He does not pontificate about whether one ought to choose, if forced to it, to betray one’s country rather than one’s friends …

Question 2

Card-carrying

Answer 2

strongly identified with a group (as of people with a common interest)

Ex: card-carrying members of the ecology movement

Question 3

Peripatetic

Answer 3

moving or traveling from place to place : ITINERANT

Question 4

To pilfer

Answer 4

to steal in small quantities

Ex: what sort of person would pilfer lunches from the office refrigerator

Question 5

Serendipity

Answer 5

the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for

Ex: They found each other by pure serendipity.

Question 6

Liminal

Answer 6

of, relating to, or being an intermediate state, phase, or condition : IN-BETWEEN, TRANSITIONAL

Ex: in the liminal state between life and death.

Question 7

To flummox

Answer 7

To confuse
Ex: He was flummoxed by the legal jargon

Question 8

Germane

Answer 8

Relevant

Question 9

Protracted

Answer 9

Lengthy

Question 10

Beleaguer

Answer 10

BESIEGE
//a town beleaguered by an army