Beyond Group 1

Question 0

Appropriate

Answer 0

(v.) to take for one’s own use; to confisticate

Question 1

Alloy

Answer 1

(v.) to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior

Question 2

Arrest, arresting

Answer 2

(v., adj.) to suspend; to engage; holding one’s attention

Question 3

August

Answer 3

(adj.) majestic, venerable

Question 4

Bent

Answer 4

(n.) leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency

Question 5

Broach

Answer 5

(v.) to bring up; to announce; to begin to talk about

Question 6

Brook

Answer 6

(v.) to tolerate; to endure; to countenance

Question 7

Cardinal

Answer 7

(adj.) major, as in cardinal sin

Question 8

Chauvinist

Answer 8

(n.) a blindly devoted patriot

Question 9

Color

Answer 9

(v.) to change as if by dyeing, i.e., to distort, gloss, or affect

Question 10

Consequential

Answer 10

(adj.) logically following, important; pompous, self-important

Question 11

Damp

Answer 11

(v.) to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound

Question 12

Die

Answer 12

(n.) a tool used for shaping

Question 13

Essay

Answer 13

(v.) to test or try; to attempt; to experiment

Question 14

Exact

Answer 14

(v.) to demand; to call for; to require; to take

Question 15

Fell

Answer 15

(v.) to cause to fall by striking; (adj.) inhumanly cruel

Question 16

Flag

Answer 16

(v.) to sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline

Question 17

Flip

Answer 17

(adj.) sarcastic, impertinent

Question 18

Ford

Answer 18

(v.) to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream

Question 19

Grouse

Answer 19

(v.) to complain or grumble

Question 20

Guy

Answer 20

(n.) a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy

Question 21

Intimate

Answer 21

(v.) to imply, suggest, or insinuate

Question 22

List

Answer 22

(v.) to tilt or lean to one side

Question 23

Lumber

Answer 23

(v.) to move heavily and clumsily

Question 24

Meet

Answer 24

(adj.) fitting, proper

Question 25

Milk

Answer 25

(v.) to exploit; to squeeze every last ounce of

Question 26

Mince

Answer 26

v. to pronounce or speak affectedly;to euphemize to speak too carefully.Also, to take tiny steps; to tiptoe

Question 27

Nice

Answer 27

adj. exacting,fastidious, extremely precise

Question 28

Obtain

Answer 28

adj. to be established, accepted, or customary

Question 29

Occult

Answer 29

adj. hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension

Question 30

Pedestrian

Answer 30

adj. commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian

Question 31

Pied

Answer 31

adj. multicolored, usually in blotches

Question 32

Pine

Answer 32

v. to lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn

Question 33

Plastic

Answer 33

adj. moldable, pliable, not rigid

Question 34

Pluck

Answer 34

n. courage, spunk, fortitude

Question 35

Prize

Answer 35

v. to pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils

Question 36

Rail

Answer 36

v. to complain about bitterly

Question 37

Rent

Answer 37

v. torn (past tense of rend); an opening or tear caused by such

Question 38

Quail

Answer 38

v. to lose courage; to turn fightened

Question 39

Qualify

Answer 39

v. to limit

Question 40

Sap

Answer 40

v. to enervate or weaken the vitality of

n. a fool or nitwit

Question 41

Scurvy

Answer 41

adj. contemptible, despicable

Question 42

Singular

Answer 42

adj. exceptional, unusual, odd

Question 43

Stand

Answer 43

n. a group of trees

Question 44

Steep

Answer 44

v. to saturate or completely soak, as in to let a tea bag steep

Question 45

Strut

Answer 45

n. the supporting structural cross-part of a wing

Question 46

Table

Answer 46

v. to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration

Question 47

Tender

Answer 47

v. to proffer or offer

Question 48

Waffle

Answer 48

v. to equivocate; to change one’s position

Question 49

Wag

Answer 49

n. wit, joker