Barron's 5

Question 1

gauche

Answer 1

coarse and uncouth; clumsy

Question 2

cognizant

Answer 2

informed; conscious; aware

Question 3

misogynist

Answer 3

one who hates women

Question 4

mnemonic

Answer 4

realated to memory; assisting memory

Question 5

mettle

Answer 5

courage; endurance

Question 6

query

Answer 6

question

Question 7

lucre

Answer 7

money or profits

Question 8

callous

Answer 8

thick-skinned; insensitive

Question 9

canon

Answer 9

an established set of principles; a basis or standard for judgment; a group of literary works

Question 10

demotic

Answer 10

pertaining to people

Question 11

bawdy

Answer 11

obscene

Question 12

disjointed

Answer 12

lacking order or coherence; dislocated

Question 13

insinuate

Answer 13

to suggest; say indirectly; imply

Question 14

taxonomy

Answer 14

science of classification

Question 15

cardinal

Answer 15

of foremost importance

Question 16

prate

Answer 16

to talk idly; chatter

Question 17

brazen

Answer 17

bold; shameless

Question 18

cosmology

Answer 18

study of the universe as a totality; theory of the origin and structure of the universe

Question 19

strut

Answer 19

to swagger, display to impress others

Question 20

lustrous

Answer 20

shining

Question 21

flourish

Answer 21

en embellishment or ornamentation

Question 22

vortex

Answer 22

whirpool, center of turbulence

Question 23

archeology

Answer 23

the study of material evidence of past human life

Question 24

juxtapose

Answer 24

place side by side

Question 25

megalomania

Answer 25

delusions of power or importance

Question 26

intimate

Answer 26

marked by close acquaintance

Question 27

stanch

Answer 27

to stop or check the flow of

Question 28

explicate

Answer 28

to explain;interpret;clarify

Question 29

inadvertenly

Answer 29

carelessly; unintentionally

Question 30

subversive

Answer 30

intended to undermine or underthrow, especially an established government