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Question 1

defray

Answer 1

provide money to pay (a cost or expense).

Question 2

edifying

Answer 2

providing moral or intellectual instruction.

Question 3

truculent

Answer 3

eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant.

Question 4

furtive

Answer 4

attempting to avoid notice or attention, typically because of guilt or a belief that discovery would lead to trouble; secretive.

Question 5

munificent

Answer 5

(of a gift or sum of money) larger or more generous than is usual or necessary.

Question 6

stolid

Answer 6

(of a person) calm, dependable, and showing little emotion or animation.

Question 7

prescience

Answer 7

the fact of knowing something before it takes place; foreknowledge.

Question 8

perquisite

Answer 8

a thing regarded as a special right or privilege enjoyed as a result of one’s position.

Question 9

insidious

Answer 9

proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effects.

Question 10

temperance

Answer 10

abstinence from alcoholic drink.

Question 11

picayune

Answer 11

petty; worthless.

Question 12

subversive

Answer 12

seeking or intended to subvert an established system or institution.

Question 13

venial

Answer 13

(of a fault or offense) slight and pardonable.

Question 14

mendacity

Answer 14

untruthfulness.

Question 15

contrive

Answer 15

create or bring about (an object or a situation) by deliberate use of skill and artifice.

Question 16

lambast

Answer 16

criticize (someone or something) harshly.

Question 17

specious

Answer 17

superficially plausible, but actually wrong.

Question 18

dissolution

Answer 18

the closing down or dismissal of an assembly, partnership, or official body.

Question 19

virago

Answer 19

a domineering, violent, or bad-tempered woman

Question 20

intransigent

Answer 20

unwilling or refusing to change one’s views or to agree about something.

Question 21

foible

Answer 21

a minor weakness or eccentricity in someone’s character.

Question 22

forlorn

Answer 22

pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely.

Question 23

inimical

Answer 23

tending to obstruct or harm.

Question 24

gauche

Answer 24

lacking ease or grace; unsophisticated and socially awkward.

Question 25

hagiography

Answer 25

adulatory (excessively praising or admiring.) writing about another person.