At the Pulpit

Question 1

Formidable

Answer 1

Causing fear, apprehension or dread

Question 2

Enigma

Answer 2

• a puzzling or inexplicable occurrence

- a person of puzzling or contradictory character

Question 3

Surmise

Answer 3

Conjecture

Question 4

Ambivalence

Answer 4

Uncertainty, esp caused by the inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to do 2 opposing things

Question 5

Sordid

Answer 5

Morally ignoble or vile

Question 6

Lament

Answer 6

To feel or express sorrow and regret

Question 7

Query

Answer 7

A question or inquiry

Question 8

Diminutive

Answer 8

Small; little

Question 9

Vacuous

Answer 9

• empty

- lacking in ideas or intelligence

Question 10

Reverie

Answer 10

A state of dreamy meditation or fanciful musing

Question 11

Conciliatory

Answer 11

• to overcome distrust or hostility

- to win over

Question 12

Emphatic

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• strongly expressive

- forceful, insistent

Question 13

Elegy

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A mournful, melancholy or plaintive poem (ex. Funeral song)

- dirge

Question 14

Cognizant

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To be aware

Question 15

Inexplicable

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Incapable of being explained

Question 16

Deify

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• to make a god

- to personify as a deity

Question 17

Aggregate

Answer 17

Collection, combined, total

Question 18

Celestial

Answer 18

• pertaining to the sky or visible heaven

- divine, heavenly

Question 19

Blasphemy

Answer 19

irreverent behavior toward anything held sacred, priceless, etc.

Question 20

Venerate

Answer 20

To regard or treat with reverence