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Question 1

Remit

Answer 1

to stop or grow weaker

Question 2

Feverish adj.

Answer 2

intense emotion or activity, extreme excitement

Question 3

Quaint

Answer 3

marked by beauty or elegance and oldfashioned while being different from norm
Ex. The ancient Sanskrit marking were quaint in design

Question 4

Sundry

Answer 4

made up of different things
synonym: eclectic, various
An indeterminate number

Question 5

Ominous

Answer 5

suggesting something bad will happen in the future

Question 6

Pixillated

Answer 6

mentally unbalanced
unusual in a playful or amusing way, whimsical
Ex. the pixillated person couldn’t get anything straight

Question 7

Fiscal

Answer 7

related to money

Question 8

Benevolence

Answer 8

kind, generous, aimed to do good

Question 9

Proliferation

Answer 9

to increase quickly in number or amount

Ex. the insights proliferate after meditation retreats

Question 10

Posh

Answer 10

attractive, expensive, popular

Question 11

Unequivocal

Answer 11

unquestionably clear

Ex. The countries support for the candidates was unequivocal

Question 12

Ignominous

Answer 12

causing disgrace or shame

Ex. After not trying very hard in the second half the defeat was ignominous

Question 13

Eccentric

Answer 13

strange or unusual

Question 14

Poignent

Answer 14

causing a strong feeling of sadness

Ex. sometimes meditation is a poignent yet productive reminder that there is still work to do

Question 15

Phantasmagoria n.

Answer 15

a strange scene that is like a dream because it is always changing in an odd way
Ex. He saw a phantasmagoria of shadowy creatures through the fog

Question 16

Apt

Answer 16

appropriate
likely to do something
quick to learn

Question 17

Peal

Answer 17

loud sound

Ex. peals of laughter

Question 18

Precarious

Answer 18

not safe strong or steady

Ex. he earned a precarious livelyhood by gambling

Question 19

Convoluted

Answer 19

complicated, difficult to understand

Question 20

Steel-trap

Answer 20

quick, incisive

Ex. A steel-trap mind

Question 21

Formidable

Answer 21

large powerful, difficult to handle

Question 22

Disquiet

Answer 22

to make worried or nervous

Question 23

Albeit

Answer 23

even though

Question 24

Unstrung

Answer 24

to make weak disordered or unstable

Ex. His mind was unstrung by loneliness

Question 25

Vivacious

Answer 25

happy or lively in an attractive way

Question 26

Beholden

Answer 26

bounded or indebted

Question 27

Ineffable

Answer 27

too great to be described or expressed

Question 28

Tenacious

Answer 28

determined to do something, hard to stop

Question 29

Transient

Answer 29

not lasting a long time

synonym: ephemeral

Question 30

Compound

Answer 30

to make something worse

His illness coumpounds his stress levels

Question 31

Inclement

Answer 31

severe

Question 32

Callous

Answer 32

not feeling or showing any concern about other’s suffering

Question 33

Errant

Answer 33

behaving wrongly or going in an unintended direction

Question 34

Incisive

Answer 34

very clear and direct

Question 35

Perverse

Answer 35

wrong or different in a way that others feel is strange or perverse

Question 36

Pallid

Answer 36

very pale dull or boring

Question 37

Fitfull

Answer 37

not regular or steady

Question 38

Effervesce

Answer 38

to show livliness or exhilaration

Question 39

Visceral

Answer 39

coming from strong emotions and not logic or reason

Question 40

Insinuate

Answer 40

to introduce gradually in a subtle way

Question 41

Interlude

Answer 41

a period of time in between events

Question 42

Disconcert

Answer 42

to make upset or embarrassed

Question 43

Abysmal

Answer 43

extremely poor or bad

Question 44

Privy

Answer 44

private, withdrawn

Question 45

Drab

Answer 45

a dull lifeless or faded appearance or quality

Question 46

Litany

Answer 46

a long list of complaints or problems