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Question 1

Abrogate

Answer 1

verb: To abolish or invalidate a law or rule or policy by some means of authority.

Question 2

Acrimony

Answer 2

noun: Bitterness; animosity; a sharp and bitter manner.

Question 3

Arrogate

Answer 3

verb: To take or claim for oneself without right; to appropriate. (usurp).

Question 4

August

Answer 4

adjective: Inspiring awe, great respect, or admiration.

Question 5

Auspicious

Answer 5

adjective: Attended by favorable circumstances, outcomes, or performance, usually at the beginning of an endeavor.

Question 6

Autocrat

Answer 6

noun: A ruler having unlimited power; a person with unlimited power and authority.

Question 7

Bemuse

Answer 7

verb: To cause to be bewildered; to confuse.

Question 8

Benchmark

Answer 8

noun: A standard, usually of excellence, by which something can be measured or judged. (touchstone, criterion).

Question 9

Bowdlerize

Answer 9

verb: To expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages in a text considered vulgar, offensive, or objectionable.

Question 10

Circumvent

Answer 10

verb: To go around or bypass; to outwit; to avoid or get around by artful maneuvering.

Question 11

Colloquial

Answer 11

adjective: Characteristic or or appropriate to the spoken language or to writing that seeks the effect of speech; informal.

Question 12

Collusion

Answer 12

noun: A secret agreement between two or more parties for a fraudulent, illegal, or deceitful purpose.

Question 13

Complicity

Answer 13

noun: Involvement as an accomplice in a questionable act or a crime.

Question 14

Conflagration

Answer 14

noun: A large and very destructive fire.

Question 15

Confluence

Answer 15

noun: A flowing together of two or more streams.

Question 16

Debutante

Answer 16

noun: A young woman making a formal debut into society.

Question 17

Deprecate

Answer 17

verb: To express disapproval of. (expostulate, depreciate, derogate).

Question 18

Diaphanous

Answer 18

adjective: Of such fine texture as to be transparent or translucent.

Question 19

Disparate

Answer 19

adjective: Fundamentally distinct or different in kind; entirely dissimilar. (antithetical).

Question 20

Ensconce

Answer 20

verb: To settle (oneself) securely or comfortably.

Question 21

Esoteric

Answer 21

adjective: Information or knowledge intended for or understood by only a particular group.

Question 22

Evince

Answer 22

verb: To show, evidence, illustrate, or demonstrate clearly.

Question 23

Execrable

Answer 23

adjective: Hateful; detestable; lamentable; inimical; extremely inferior; very bad. (abject, abysmal, inimical).

Question 24

Fallacious

Answer 24

adjective: Containing or based on a fallacy; tending to mislead; deceptive; specious; spurious.

Question 25

Fallow

Answer 25

adjective: Plowed but left unseeded during a growing season.

Question 26

Feign

Answer 26

verb: To give a false appearance of; to represent falsely; to pretend to do something; to fabricate.

Question 27

Flounder

Answer 27

verb: To make clumsy attempts to move or regain one’s balance; to move or act clumsily and in confusion; to struggle.

Question 28

Grandiloquence

Answer 28

noun: Pompous or bombastic speech or expression; verbal ornamentation.

Question 29

Hedonism

Answer 29

noun: Pursuit of or devotion to pleasure, especially to the pleasures of the senses.

Question 30

Hypothesis

Answer 30

noun: Something taken to be true for the purpose of argument or investigation; an assumption.

Question 31

Immutable

Answer 31

adjective: Not subject or susceptible to change or variation in form or quality.

Question 32

Prevaricate

Answer 32

verb: To stray from or evade the truth; to deceive. (equivocate).

Question 33

Privation

Answer 33

noun: A state of extreme poverty; lacking the basic necessities of life; abject poverty.

Question 34

Recrimination

Answer 34

noun: A countercharge against an accuser; mutual accusations.

Question 35

Winnow

Answer 35

verb: To separate or distinguish (valuable from worthless parts); to fan.