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Question 1

histrionic

Answer 1

too emotional or dramatic

Question 2

splendid

Answer 2

very good; excellent

Question 3

resolve (n)

Answer 3

a strong determination

Question 4

prologue

Answer 4

introduction (to a poem or play)

Question 5

garner

Answer 5

to collect or gather

Question 6

arduous

Answer 6

hard; strenuous

Question 7

instill

Answer 7

to gradually cause someone to have (an attitude, feeling, etc.)

Question 8

anthropologist

Answer 8

a person who studies human races, origins, societies, and cultures

Question 9

pamper

Answer 9

to treat (someone or something) very well; to give (someone or something) a lot of attention and care

Question 10

artisan

Answer 10

manually skilled worker; craftsman, as opposed to artist

Question 11

piquant

Answer 11

pleasantly tart-tasting; stimulating; interesting and exciting

Question 12

deity

Answer 12

a god or goddess; someone or something worshipped as a god

Question 13

treachery

Answer 13

harmful things that are done usually secretly to a friend, your own country

Question 14

abstemious

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not eating and drinking too much

Question 15

afflict

Answer 15

to distress with mental or bodily pain; trouble greatly or grievously

Question 16

renege

Answer 16

to refuse to do something that your promised or agreed to do

Question 17

depict

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portray, to describe (someone or something) using words, a story, etc.

Question 18

apathy

Answer 18

lack of caring; indifference

Question 19

revere

Answer 19

to regard with great devotion or respect, to honor

Question 20

permissive

Answer 20

giving people a lot of freedom or too much freedom to do what they want to do

Question 21

transcend

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to rise above or go beyond; to surpass

Question 22

stir up

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to cause to feel a strong emotion and a desire to do something; to cause to happen

Question 23

wan

Answer 23

looking sick or pale

Question 24

sequester

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isolate; to keep apart from other people

Question 25

denounce

Answer 25

condemn; criticize

Question 26

shirk

Answer 26

to avoid doing something that you are supposed to do

Question 27

colossal

Answer 27

very large or great

Question 28

personify

Answer 28

to think of or represent as having human qualities; to typify

Question 29

mimetic

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characterized by, exhibiting, or of the nature of imitation or mimicry

Question 30

fraught with

Answer 30

teeming with; filled with

Question 31

husbandry

Answer 31

management of resources, especially in agriculture

Question 32

commodity

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a thing, something bought and sold

Question 33

tussle

Answer 33

a vigorous struggle or contest; scuffle

Question 34

libertine

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an immoral or licentious man; a person who leads an immoral life and is mainly interested in sexual pleasure

Question 35

scurry

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move briskly

Question 36

liberal

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not strict or exact

Question 37

unscathed

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unharmed

Question 38

harbor

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provide a refuge for; hide

Question 39

adulation

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flattery; admiration

Question 40

venerate

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revere

Question 41

probe

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to look into or examine carefully

Question 42

exude

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to show very clearly or strongly

Question 43

bestial

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beastlike; brutal

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embellish

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to decorate by adding special details and features; to make more appealing or attractive

Question 45

discrete

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separate and different from each other

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tout

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publicize; praise excessively; to talk about as being very good, effective, skillful, etc.

Question 47

concave

Answer 47

curved inward like the interior of a sphere

Question 48

inequity

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unfairness

Question 49

shrug

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to think of or treat as not important; to pay no attention to

Question 50

cede

Answer 50

yield to; surrender formally