Batch 2

Question 1

Ameliorate

Answer 1

To make it better or more tolerable

Question 2

Anacolutha

Answer 2

syntactical inconsistency or incoherence within a sentence especially : a shift in an unfinished sentence from one syntactic construction to another (as in “you really ought—well, do it your own way”)

Question 3

Libertine

Answer 3

2 : a person who is unrestrained by convention or morality; specifically : one leading a dissolute life

Noun and adj.

Question 4

Piebald

Answer 4

1 : composed of incongruous parts

2 : of different colors; especially : spotted or blotched with black and white

Question 5

Miasma

Answer 5

A heavy cloud of something unpleasant or unhealthy

an influence or atmosphere that tends to deplete or corrupt

Question 6

Diaphanous

Answer 6

1 : characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through
2 : characterized by extreme delicacy of form : ethereal

Question 7

Defenestrate

Answer 7

1 : a throwing of a person or thing out of a window

2 : a usually swift dismissal or expulsion (as from a political party or office)

Question 8

Evanescent

Answer 8

Tending to vanish like vapor

Question 9

Alexithymia

Answer 9

difficulty in experiencing, expressing, and describing emotional responses.

Question 10

Meretricious

Answer 10

: attractive in a cheap or false way

Question 11

Gelid

Answer 11

Extremely cold; icy

Question 12

Agrestal

Answer 12

of or pertaining to plants growing wild in fields and uncultivated areas.

Question 13

Agrestic

Answer 13

Old and rustic; like a western rockin chair on a porch

Question 14

Inimical

Answer 14

Unfriendly; hostile

Question 15

Lubricious

Answer 15

Offensively displaying or intending to arouse sexual desire

Smooth or slippery with an oily substance

Question 16

Inchoate

Answer 16

Just begun

Not fully developed

Question 17

Halcyon

Answer 17

Very happy calm and successful days

A period of prosperity

Question 18

Facetious

Answer 18

1 : joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish

2 : meant to be humorous or funny : not serious <a></a>

Question 19

Esoteric

Answer 19

1 a : designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone <a>
b : requiring or exhibiting knowledge that is restricted to a small group ; broadly : difficult to understand </a>

Question 20

Risible

Answer 20

a : capable of laughing

b : disposed to laugh

Question 21

Abulia

Answer 21

A mental disorder involving the loss of willpower or volition
Abulic

Question 22

Snicket

Answer 22

Narrow passage or alleyway between houses

Question 23

Odious

Answer 23

Extremely unpleasant

Repulsive

Question 24

Pillory

Answer 24

Basically Stockades

Can also be a verb

Question 25

Cant

Answer 25

insincere, especially conventional expressions of enthusiasm for high ideals, goodness, or piety.

Question 26

Abstruse

Answer 26

hard to understand; recondite; esoteric

Question 27

Recondite

Answer 27

dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter: a recondite treatise.

beyond ordinary knowledge or understanding; esoteric: recondite principles.

little known; obscure: a recondite fact.

Question 28

Expiate

Answer 28

to atone for; make amends or reparation for: to expiate one’s crimes.

Unexpiated

Question 29

Probity

Answer 29

integrity and uprightness; honesty.

Latin Probus meaning “upright”

Question 30

Stelliferous

Answer 30

having or abounding with stars.

from the Latin stellifer meaning “star-bearing

Question 31

Bonhomie

Answer 31

frank and simple good-heartedness; a good-natured manner; friendliness; geniality

Question 32

Irenic

Answer 32

tending to promote peace or reconciliation; peaceful or conciliatory.

Greek eirḗnē meaning “peace.”