Adjectives

Question 1

 recalcitrant
 The danger is that recalcitrant local authorities will reject to their responsibilities
The recalcitrant clergy refused to obey an act past by the secular authority

Answer 1

Having an obstinately, uncooperative attitude towards authority or discipline. Synonym – cooperative, intractable, unmanageable.

Question 2

drab
“It taught that suffering was good, that drabness and pain were inevitable.”

Answer 2

lacking brightness or interest; drearily dull.
syn. dull, colorless

Question 3

 Hortatory
Each rule or principal is followed by a short hortatory essay

Answer 3

Tending or aiming to exhort synonym didactic pedagogic

Question 4

Dank
Twice a day all the royal mars rode through the dank and misty streets for the services

Answer 4

Unpleasantly, damp and cold
Synonyms, damp, musty, chilly, clammy, moist, unaired, wet

Question 5

Gregarious

Answer 5

Of a person fond of company sociable

Question 6

Glib

The word glib might be used to describe the slick car salesman who uses his polished sales pitch to talk his customers into buying lemons.

Answer 6

Fluent but insincere and shallow

Fast talking
Smooth talking

Question 7

Tottering
Nicholas, deeply moved, grasped the hand of the tottering veteran and congratulated him

Answer 7

Feeble or unsteady
Synonym wobbly stumbling