2021 Mar

Question 1

Charivari

Answer 1

A noisy mock serenade

Question 2

Labil

Answer 2

Delicate

Unstable

Question 3

Perspicacity

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Perceptiveness

Shrewdness

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Detritus

Answer 4

Waste

Debris

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Comport

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To conduct oneself

Behave

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Peripeteia

Answer 6

A sudden reversal of fortune

Question 7

Nonage

Answer 7

The period of a person’s immaturity or youth

Question 8

Kvell

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To feel happy and proud

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Moppet

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A small, endearingly sweet child

Question 10

Myasthenia

Answer 10

A condition causing abnormal weakness in certain muscles

Question 11

Gallinaceous

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Relating to poultry and game birds

Question 12

Estaminet

Answer 12

A small cafe in France that sells alcoholic beverages

Question 13

Recant

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To renounce

To change one’s mind

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Sprezzatura

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Studied carelessness, especially as a characteristic quality or style of art or literature

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Eupeptic

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Relating to or having a good digestive system

Being in good spirits

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Desiccate

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To remove water from something

To make completely dry

Question 17

Subterfuge

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Trickery

Trick

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Chalk up

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To attribute

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Epergne

Answer 19

An ornamental centrepiece for a dining table

Usually consisting of fruits or flowers

Question 20

Nisus

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A perfective urge or endeavour

Question 21

Victual

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Food or provisions

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Dido

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The queen and founder of Carthage

In the Aeneid

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Badinage

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Humourous or witty conversation

Banter

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Sycophant

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A person who behaves obsequiously in front of someone important in order to gain advantages

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Adumbrate

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To report or represent in outline To foreshadow

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Orchidaceous

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Relating to or denoting orchids

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Nictate

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To blink or wink

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Ratiocinate

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To form a judgment via process of logic To reason

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Annalist

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A person who writes annals

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Nobby

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Of or befitting a wealthy or noble person

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Toxophilite

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A student or lover of archery

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CAGR

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Compound annual growth rate (a term for the geometric progression ratio that provides a constant rate of return over the time period)

Question 33

Annal

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A record of events of a particular year

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Epexegesis

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An addition of words for explanation

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Ineluctable

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Inescapable Inevitable

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Gyne

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The primary reproductive caste system of female insects

Question 37

Horology

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The study and measurement of time

Question 38

Sublimate

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To channel (psychics)

Question 39

SFTP

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SSH File Transfer Protocol (a network protocol designed to secure file transfers)

Question 40

SSH

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Secure SHell

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Cynosure

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A person or thing that is the centre of attention