2020 May

Question 1

Cadre

Answer 1

A small group

Question 2

Bauxite

Answer 2

An amorphous clayey rock that is the chief commercial ore of aluminium

Question 3

Squelch

Answer 3

To make a sound similar to that associated with walking heavily through mud

Question 4

Sinuous

Answer 4

Winding

Question 5

Naphtha

Answer 5

A flammable oil consisting of hydrocarbons

Question 6

Clemency

Answer 6

Mercy/ lenience

Question 7

Effete

Answer 7

affected, overrefined, and ineffectual

Question 8

Dreck

Answer 8

rubbish/ trash

Question 9

Contrition

Answer 9

Remorse

Question 10

Macabre

Answer 10

Gruesome

Question 11

Multifarious

Answer 11

Many and of various types

Question 12

Exigency

Answer 12

an urgent need or demand

Question 13

Corrugated

Answer 13

Shaped into ridges and grooves

Question 14

Perforated

Answer 14

Pierced with a hole or holes

Question 15

Despot

Answer 15

An oppressive ruler who wields absolute power

Question 16

Euphony

Answer 16

The quality of being pleasing to the ear

Question 17

Perquisite

Answer 17

Perk/ benefit

Question 18

Pogrom

Answer 18

An organized massacre

Question 19

Insouciance

Answer 19

Casual indifference

Question 20

Intubation

Answer 20

Insertion of a tube into a patient’s body

Question 21

Insidious

Answer 21

Proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effects

Question 22

Edacious

Answer 22

Of or relating to eating

Question 23

Septicaemia

Answer 23

Blood poisoning

Question 24

Gnomic

Answer 24

Expressed in the nature of short, pithy maxims or aphorisms

Question 25

Glissade

Answer 25

A way of sliding down a steep slope

Question 26

Acuity

Answer 26

Sharpness or keenness of thought, vision or hearing

Question 27

Inveigle

Answer 27

To persuade someone via deception

Question 28

Précis

Answer 28

Summary or abstract of a text or speech

Question 29

Blithe

Answer 29

Heedless

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