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Question 1

Colloquy

Answer 1

noun: A conversation or discourse, especially a formal one; formal inquiry; a conference; written dialogue.

Question 2

Darwinian

Answer 2

adjective: Of or relating to Charles Darwin, his theories especially those of evolution.

Question 3

Denizen

Answer 3

noun: An inhabitant or citizen; a resident. (constituent).

Question 4

Diaspora

Answer 4

noun: A dispersion or exodus of a people from their original homeland.

Question 5

Dilettante

Answer 5

adjective: Showing frivolous or superficial interest.

Question 8

Exponent

Answer 8

noun: A person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea; an advocate.

Question 9

Extricate

Answer 9

verb: To release from an entanglement or difficulty; to liberate or disengage.

Question 10

Faustian

Answer 10

adjective: Characterized by a clandestine arrangement in which an ambitious person surrenders moral integrity in order to achieve power and success.

Question 11

Glacial

Answer 11

adjective: Bitterly cold; icy; happening or moving at an exceptionally slow pace. (insensate; callous).

Question 12

Grovel

Answer 12

verb: To behave in a servile, obsequious, or self-deprecating manner.

Question 13

Imperative

Answer 13

adjective: Having the power or authority to command or control.

Question 16

Implausible

Answer 16

adjective: Having a quality that provokes disbelief; highly imaginative but unlikely. (dubious).

Question 17

Infrastructure

Answer 17

noun: An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.

Question 18

Innuendo

Answer 18

noun: An indirect or subtle, usually derogatory or malicious, implication in expression.

Question 19

Inscrutable

Answer 19

adjective: Incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable; enigmatic.

Question 20

Interminable

Answer 20

adjective: Being or seeming to be without an end; endless.

Question 21

Interpolate

Answer 21

verb: To insert or introduce between other elements or parts.

Question 22

Intrinsic

Answer 22

adjective: Belonging to a thing by its very nature; inherent; innate.

Question 23

Introspective

Answer 23

adjective: Examining one’s own sensory and perceptual experiences.

Question 24

Inure

Answer 24

verb: To become accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain; to toughen or harden.

Question 25

Invective

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noun: Abusive or vitriolic language used to express blame or censure; vituperation (castigation, harangue, condemnation, diatribe).

Question 26

Legion

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adjective: Amounting to a significant indefinite number; a most impressive quantity or amount.

Question 29

Malediction

Answer 29

noun: An act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult); slander; imprecation.

Question 30

Masochist

Answer 30

noun: Someone who obtains pleasure from receiving punishment.

Question 31

Microcosm

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noun: A miniature model or representation of something larger.

Question 32

Orwellian

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adjective: After George Orwell. Characterized by any totalitarian system of government in which a government has abrogated absolute control over its citizens and assures and sustains its authority by means of surveillance, duplicity, propaganda, manipulation, coercion, and Draconian and Machiavellian measures of control over its citizens.

Question 33

Paradigm

Answer 33

noun: Something that serves as a pattern or model; a representation; the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time.

Question 34

Peregrinate

Answer 34

verb: To journey or travel from place to place, especially on foot; to traverse.

Question 35

Philanderer

Answer 35

noun: To engage in many sexual affairs, especially with a frivolous or casual attitude, and with no intention of marrying; a libertine; a rake.

Question 36

Philology

Answer 36

noun: The humanistic study of language and literature; literary study or scholarship.

Question 37

Plucky

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adjective: Having or showing courage, bravery, and spirit in trying circumstances. (tenacious, undaunted).

Question 38

Pluralistic

Answer 38

adjective: Having multiple and often complex aspects or parts; manifold; heterogeneous.

Question 39

Poignant

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adjective: Profoundly moving; touching; sentimental; agreeably intense or stimulating; producing an arousing effect (pathos).

Question 40

Pontificate

Answer 40

verb: To express opinions, advice, or judgments in a dogmatic, arrogant, or pompous manner.

Question 41

Watershed

Answer 41

noun: A critical point that marks a division or a change of course; an event marking a unique or important historical change of course in history, or one on which important developments depend; an epoch.