A Letter

Question 1

Escarpment

Answer 1

Steep cliff

Ex.: Please do not fall down the escarpment

Question 2

Detriment

Answer 2

Demolish/ harm/ damage

Ex.: He worked very long hours to the detriment of his marriage

Question 3

Munificent

Answer 3

Generosity specially when dealing in money in a big way

Ex.: A munificent gift

Question 4

Havoc

Answer 4

Great destruction

Ex.: The war caused a great havoc among European societies

Question 5

Loquacious

Answer 5

Talkative

Question 6

Acrimonious

Answer 6

Harsh on speech and behavior/ anger

Ex.: The meeting ended in an acrimonious way

Question 7

Temerity

Answer 7

Reckless confidence

Question 9

Boorish

Answer 9

A rude or impolite person

Ex.: why is your father so boorish?

Question 10

Pusillanimous

Answer 10

Coward

Question 11

Harangue

Answer 11

A long speech

Ex.: He stood on the street corner, haranguing passers-by about the stupidity of the forthcoming war

Question 12

Addled

Answer 12

Confused

E.: All that drink has addled his brain

Question 13

Proficient

Answer 13

Able to do something well or skillful

Ex.: English proficiency

Question 14

Hoax

Answer 14

A practical joke

Ex.: The maia apocalipse was nothing but a big hoax

Question 15

Querulous

Answer 15

Complaining

Ex.: querulous child

Question 16

Thwart

Answer 16

To prevent someone from doing what they intended to do

Ex.: The hero once again thwarted the evil’s plan

Question 17

Addendum

Answer 17

To something added as supplement

Ex.: An addendum to section 4

Question 18

Query

Answer 18

A question

Ex.: People often confuse querying about a subject with querulous replies

Question 19

Finicky

Answer 19

Too concerned with unimportant details

Ex.: She is very finicky about what she eats

Question 20

Behemoth

Answer 20

Something that is very large

Ex.: A behemoth Tv

Question 21

Flamboyant

Answer 21

Behaving in a confident or exciting way that makes people notice you (showy)

Ex.: His flamboyant dressing style

Question 22

Laconic

Answer 22

Using very few words

Question 23

Protracted

Answer 23

To prolong

Ex.: The expenses of a protracted legal battle

   A protracted fight

Question 24

Mountebank

Answer 24

A phony, a fraud, a charlatan

Ex.: A mountebank tricked him into spending all his money on a cheap house

Question 25

Feeble

Answer 25

Weak

Ex.: She was too feeble to leave the room

Question 26

Pugnacious

Answer 26

Eager to fight, quarrelsome

Ex.: A pugnacious person will always get into bar fights

Question 27

Voluble

Answer 27

Talkative

Question 28

Galvanize

Answer 28

To stimulate
To startle into sudden activity

Ex.: The possibility of defeat galvanized us into action

Question 28

Perusal

Answer 28

Reading

Question 29

Cogent

Answer 29

Cogent

Reasonable, concise, correct

Ex.: a cogent argument for banning drugs

Question 30

Actuate

Answer 30

To put into motion or action

Ex.: Actuate on your dream, or it will only exist in your head

Question 31

Fretful

Answer 31

Complaining and unable to relax/ querulous

Ex.: the child was tired and fretful

Question 33

Phlegmatic

Answer 33

Unemotional/ Not easily excited

Ex.: Some people are extremely phlegmatic, you can never tell weather they liked a treat or not

Question 34

Stinginess

Answer 34

Not generous with money

Ex.: The stinginess in our society is what make people churl

Question 35

Filch

Answer 35

To steal

Ex.: He filched a cheap champagne bottle from the market

Question 35

Terse

Answer 35

Brief, to the point

Ex.: Don’t give terse replies when texting bae

Question 36

Notoriety

Answer 36

Being famous for a bad quality

Question 37

Eminent

Answer 37

Famous and respected within a particular sphere or profession

Question 38

Elegy

Answer 38

A poem lament for the dead

Question 39

Eulogy

Answer 39

A piece of work praising someone