601 Lesson 1

Question 0

lothario

Answer 0

rake; seducer; lover

Question 1

jingoist

Answer 1

one who boasts about his patriotism andd favors a warlike foreign policy.
—super-patriot

Question 2

maverick

Answer 2

one who acts independently

—nonconformist

Question 3

nemesis

Answer 3

agent of retribution; just punishment

Question 4

philanderer

Answer 4

one who makes love insincerely; one who engages in passing love affairs
—unfaithful lover

Question 5

philippic

Answer 5

bitter verbal attack

Question 6

procrustean

Answer 6

designed to secure conformity; drastic

Question 7

protean

Answer 7

changeable; taking on different forms

Question 8

Pyrrhic victory

Answer 8

a victory that is exeptionally costly

Question 9

quixotic

Answer 9

romantically idealist; impractical

Question 10

saturnine

Answer 10

slugglish; gloomy; grave

Question 11

spoonerism

Answer 11

an unintentional exchange of initial sounds

Question 12

sybarite

Answer 12

one who is fond of luxury and soft living

Question 13

tawdy

Answer 13

cheap; gaudy; showy

Question 14

solecism

Answer 14

substandard use of words; violation of good manners; slang; language error