2nd Semester Honors 10

Question 1

Absolve

Answer 1

Clear from blame or guilt

Question 2

Abstemious

Answer 2

Characterized by abstinence, moderate, sparing

Question 3

Accentuate

Answer 3

To emphasize, place stress on

Question 4

Caricature

Answer 4

Exaggerated features

Question 5

Censurable

Answer 5

Deserving of blame or correction

Question 6

Contingent

Answer 6

Likely but not certain to happen,

Representative

Question 7

Corrobate

Answer 7

To confirm, make certain

Question 8

Denizen

Answer 8

Resident

Question 9

Discursive

Answer 9

Passing aimlessly from one subject to another, rambling, roving

Question 10

Disseminate

Answer 10

To scatter widely

Question 11

Dowdy

Answer 11

Poorly dressed shabby, lacking good taste

Question 12

Florid

Answer 12

Highly colored showy

Question 13

Foist

Answer 13

To impose by fraud, to pass off as worthy or genuine

Question 14

Gauche

Answer 14

Awkward, lacking in social graces

Question 15

Heresy

Answer 15

An opinion different from accepted belief

Question 16

Inculcate

Answer 16

Impress on the mind by repetition, teach persistently

Question 17

Palpable

Answer 17

Easily seen or heard or recognized

Question 18

Perceptive

Answer 18

Sympathetic insight or understanding

Question 19

Pernicious

Answer 19

Deadly fatal

Question 20

Quail

Answer 20

Shrink back in fear

Question 21

Salient

Answer 21

Leaping forward, standing out

Question 22

Satiate

Answer 22

Satisfy

Full

Question 23

Clangor

Answer 23

Loud ringing

Question 24

Contiguous

Answer 24

Side by side touching

Question 25

Cupidity

Answer 25

Desire, greed

Question 28

Deleterious

Answer 28

Harmful, injurious

Question 29

Extentuate

Answer 29

To lessen seriousness by making excuses

Question 30

Exude

Answer 30

To ooze out

Question 31

Implicit

Answer 31

Implied, without doubt

Question 32

Insicive

Answer 32

Penetrate, sharp keen

Question 33

Ostentatious

Answer 33

Pretentious display, showy

Question 34

Paragon

Answer 34

Model of excellence or perfection

Question 35

Politic

Answer 35

Prudent, shrewdly conceived or developed,artful

Question 36

Preeminent

Answer 36

Superior, prominent

Question 37

Prosaic

Answer 37

Dull, ordinary, lacking in distinction

Question 38

Sear

Answer 38

To harden or make unfeeling

Question 38

Sanctimonious

Answer 38

Making a show of virtue, pious

Question 39

Specious

Answer 39

Deceptive, apparently good but lacking real merit

Question 39

Scintillating

Answer 39

Sparkling, twinkling

Question 40

Winsome

Answer 40

Charming attractive

Question 41

Accrue

Answer 41

To grow or accumulate

Question 42

Antediluvian

Answer 42

Ancient or old

Question 43

Bedlam

Answer 43

Confusion or uproar

Question 44

Dun

Answer 44

Demand payment of debt

Question 45

Efficacious

Answer 45

Effective showing results

Question 46

Equanimity

Answer 46

Calmness composure

Question 47

Fortuitous

Answer 47

Accidental happening by chance

Question 48

Gist

Answer 48

Main point essence

Question 49

Imperious

Answer 49

Overbearing, hostile

Question 50

Invective

Answer 50

Abusive

Question 51

Motley

Answer 51

Showing diversity

Question 52

Munificent

Answer 52

Generous lavish

Question 53

Provocative

Answer 53

Something that stimulates

Question 54

Recondite

Answer 54

Exceeding ordinary knowledge

Question 55

Reprobate

Answer 55

Wicked or corrupt

Question 56

Sedentary

Answer 56

Remaining in one place

Question 57

Amenable

Answer 57

Willing to follow advice

Question 58

Berate

Answer 58

Scold sharply

Question 59

Carnage

Answer 59

Large scale slaughter or loss of life

Question 60

Credulous

Answer 60

Too ready to believe

Question 61

Criterion

Answer 61

A rule, test, standard for judgement

Question 62

Deplete

Answer 62

Diminish greatly

Question 63

Expatiate

Answer 63

To expand on

Question 64

Extraneous

Answer 64

Coming from the outside, foreign

Question 65

Inception

Answer 65

The beginning, start

Question 66

Infirmity

Answer 66

Ailment

Question 67

Jejune

Answer 67

Immature

Question 68

Obdurate

Answer 68

Stubborn unyielding

Question 69

Ostensible

Answer 69

Appearing to be true or actual

Question 70

Potpourri

Answer 70

Collection of diverse items

Question 71

Precocious

Answer 71

Unusually early development

Question 72

Providential

Answer 72

Divine intervention, good luck

Question 73

Sadistic

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Excessively cruel

Question 74

Sententious

Answer 74

Self-righteous, pithy

Question 75

Supplicate

Answer 75

Beg earnestly and humbly

Question 76

Surfeit

Answer 76

Overindulgence

Question 77

Tortuous

Answer 77

Twisted, crooked, highly complex, devious

Question 78

Turgid

Answer 78

Swollen bloated, filled to excess, over decorated in language