Advanced 7

Question 1

Modicum

Answer 1

A small or moderate or token amount

Question 2

Bastardization

Answer 2

An act that debases or corrupts

Question 3

Palaver

Answer 3

Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

Question 4

Loath

Answer 4

Unwilling to do something contrary to your custom (usually followed by ‘to’)

Question 5

Verisimilitude

Answer 5

The appearance of truth

Question 6

Cataclysm

Answer 6

An event resulting in great loss and misfortune

Question 7

Dissolution

Answer 7

A living full of debauchery and indulgence in sensual pleasure

Question 8

Eponym

Answer 8

The name derived from a person (real or imaginary); the person for who something is named

Question 9

Dissemble

Answer 9

Conceal one’s true motives, usually through deceit

Question 10

Obtain

Answer 10

Be valid, applicable, or true

Question 11

Oblique

Answer 11

Not straightforward; indirect

Question 12

Diminutive

Answer 12

To indicate smallness

Very small

Question 13

Raillery

Answer 13

Light teasing

Question 14

Surfeit

Answer 14

An excessive amount of something

Question 15

Exiguity

Answer 15

The quality of being meager

Question 16

Simulacrum

Answer 16

A representation of a person (esp. in the form of a sculpture)
A bad imitation

Question 17

Despot

Answer 17

A cruel and oppressive dictator

Question 18

Demonstrative

Answer 18

Given to or marked by the open expression of emotion

Question 19

Graft

Answer 19

Corruption, usually through bribery

Question 20

Exorbitant

Answer 20

Greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation

Question 21

Concomitant

Answer 21

Describing an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another

Question 22

Row

Answer 22

An angry dispute

Question 23

Splenetic

Answer 23

Very irritable

Question 24

Adjudicate

Answer 24

To serve as a judge in a competition; to arrive at a judgement or conclusion

Question 25

Hoodwink

Answer 25

To deceive or trick someone

Question 26

Bereft

Answer 26

Unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love

Sorrowful through loss or deprivation

Question 27

Dissipate

Answer 27

Squander or spend money frivolously

To disperse or scatter

Question 28

Panacea

Answer 28

Hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; a universal solution

Question 29

Canard

Answer 29

A deliberately misleading fabrication

Question 30

Misattribute

Answer 30

To erroneously attribute, to falsely ascribe; used esp. of authorship