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Question 1

amended

Answer 1

to alter, modify, rephrase, or add to or subtract from (a motion, bill, constitution, etc.) by formal procedure: Congress may amend the proposed tax bill.

Question 2

decrepit

Answer 2

weakened by old age; feeble; infirm: a decrepit man who can hardly walk.

Question 3

distemper

Answer 3

Also called canine distemper. an infectious disease chiefly of young dogs, caused by an unidentified virus and characterized by lethargy, fever, catarrh, photophobia, and vomiting.

Question 4

embezzle

Answer 4

to appropriate fraudulently to one’s own use, as money or property entrusted to one’s care.

Question 5

concurrent

Answer 5

occurring or existing simultaneously or side by side: concurrent attacks by land, sea, and air.

Question 6

acquittal

Answer 6

Law. judicial deliverance from a criminal charge on a verdict or finding of not guilty.

Question 7

bewilder

Answer 7

to confuse utterly; puzzle

Question 8

consistent

Answer 8

agreeing or accordant; compatible; not self-contradictory: His views and actions are consistent.

Question 9

contingent

Answer 9

dependent for existence, occurrence, character, etc., on something not yet certain; conditional (often followed by on or upon ): Our plans are contingent on the weather.

Question 10

insipid

Answer 10

without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid: an insipid personality.

Question 11

intrinsic

Answer 11

belonging to a thing by its very nature: the intrinsic value of a gold ring.

Question 12

malignant

Answer 12

disposed to cause harm, suffering, or distress deliberately; feeling or showing ill will or hatred.

Question 13

abolish

Answer 13

to do away with; put an end to; annul; make void: to abolish slavery.

Question 14

admonish

Answer 14

to caution, advise, or counsel against something.

Question 15

laconic

Answer 15

using few words; expressing much in few words; concise: a laconic reply.

Question 16

apostate

Answer 16

a person who forsakes his religion, cause, party, etc.

Question 17

quay

Answer 17

a landing place, especially one of solid masonry, constructed along the edge of a body of water; wharf.

Question 18

rime

Answer 18

Also called rime ice. an opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, caused by the rapid freezing of supercooled water droplets on impact with an object. Compare frost ( def 2 ) , glaze ( def 17 ) .