Adjectives

Question 1

• stingy

Answer 1

• unwilling to spend money.

Axe’s attitude toward giving big bonuses was stingy.

Question 2

• abrasive

Answer 2

• someone who shows little concern for the feelings of others.

(Taylor is abrasive, except with Oscar.)

Question 3

• chronic

Answer 3

• persisting for a long time or constantly recurring.

Kersey’s pain was chronic.

Question 4

• dispositive

Answer 4

• deciding a matter finally, or relating the process of doing this.

(Tara’s previous support of Biden was not dispositive in disproving her accusation.)

Question 5

• overdue

Answer 5

• not having arrived, happened, or been done by the expected time.

(The rent was nearly three months overdue.)

Question 6

• agape

Answer 6

• (of a person’s mouth) wide open in surprise or wonder.

Question 7

• joiner (informal)

Answer 7

• a person who likes to get involved in activities with groups of people.

Question 8

• measly (informal)

Answer 8

• ridiculously small or few.

Question 9

• backhanded

Answer 9

• having a meaning that is expressed indirectly or ambiguously.

Question 10

• ostensible

Answer 10

• stated or appearing to be true, but not necessarily so.

Question 11

• pragmatic

Answer 11

• based on practical considerations, rather than theoretical ones.

Question 12

• pernicious

Answer 12

• having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way.

Question 13

• chaste

Answer 13

• abstaining from extramarital, or from all, sexual intercourse.

Question 14

• titular

Answer 14

• having the title of a position but not the responsibilities, duties, or power; in name only.

Question 15

• vivid

Answer 15

• producing powerful feelings or strong, clear images in the mind.

Question 16

• visceral

Answer 16

• relating to deep inward feelings rather than to the intellect.

Question 17

• reductive

Answer 17

• tending to present a subject or problem in a simplified form, especially one viewed as crude.

Question 18

• mercurial

Answer 18

• subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind.

Question 19

• willed

Answer 19

• having a specified level or kind of determination.

* deliberate.

Question 20

• mammoth

Answer 20

• huge.

Question 21

• bare-bones

Answer 21

• reduced to or comprising only the basic or essential elements of something.

Question 22

• small-minded

Answer 22

• having strong opinions and refusing to consider new or different ideas.

Question 23

• spiteful

Answer 23

• showing or caused by malice.

Question 24

• doozy (informal)

Answer 24

• something outstanding or unique of its kind.

Question 25

• off-putting

Answer 25

• slightly unpleasant or worrying so that you do not want to get involved in any way.

Question 26

• blazing

Answer 26

• very hot.

Question 27

• companionate (formal)

Answer 27

• (of a marriage or relationship) between partners or spouses as equal companions.

Question 28

• inchoate

Answer 28

• just begun and so not fully formed or developed; rudimentary.

Question 29

• bosomy

Answer 29

• having large breasts.

Question 30

• rimless (glasses)

Answer 30

• glasses which have no frame around the lenses or which have a frame only along the top of the lenses.

Question 31

• tangible

Answer 31

• clear and definite; real.

Question 32

• unperturbed

Answer 32

• not perturbed or concerned.

Question 33

• invariable

Answer 33

• never changing.

Question 34

• joyous

Answer 34

• full of happiness and joy.

Question 35

• blithe

Answer 35

• showing a casual and cheerful indifference considered to be callous or improper.

Question 36

• dashed

Answer 36

• (of a line on a piece of paper) composed of dashes.

Question 37

• deleterious (formal)

Answer 37

• causing harm or damage.

Question 38

• inborn

Answer 38

• existing from birth.

Question 39

• candid

Answer 39

• (of a photograph of a person) taken informally, especially without the subject’s knowledge.

Question 40

• gratuitous

Answer 40

• done without good reason; uncalled for.

Question 41

• sparse

Answer 41

• thinly dispersed or scattered.

Question 42

• unitive

Answer 42

• serving to unite; tending to promote unity.

Question 43

• bedridden

Answer 43

• confined to bed by sickness or old age.

Question 44

• primeval

Answer 44

• (of emotion or behaviour) strongly instinctive and unreasoning.

Question 45

• unimagined

Answer 45

• not having been imagined or thought of as possible.

Question 46

• self-defeating

Answer 46

• done in a way that keeps you from succeeding.

* used to describe something that causes or makes worse the problem it was designed to avoid or solve.

Question 47

• self-regarding

Answer 47

• characterized by regard or consideration for oneself; self-centred.

Question 48

• fun-loving

Answer 48

• (of a person) light-hearted and lively.

Question 49

• ineluctable

Answer 49

• unable to be resisted or avoided; inescapable.

Question 50

• painstaking

Answer 50

• done with or employing great care and thoroughness.

Question 51

• -ridden

Answer 51

• full of something unpleasant or bad.

Question 52

• giddy

Answer 52

• having a sensation of whirling and a tendency to fall or stagger; dizzy.

Question 53

• slinky (informal)

Answer 53

• (of a garment) fitting closely to the lines of the body.

Question 54

• tame (derogatory)

Answer 54

• not exciting, adventurous, or controversial.

Question 55

• putative

Answer 55

• generally considered or reputed to be.

Question 56

• contingent

Answer 56

• subject to chance.

Question 57

• clumsy

Answer 57

• done awkwardly or without skill.