Beyond Group 2

Question 1

Abjure

Answer 1

v. to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid

Question 2

Adumbrate

Answer 2

v. to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow

Question 3

Anathema

Answer 3

n. a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing

Question 4

Anodyne

Answer 4

adj./n. soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts

Question 5

Apogee

Answer 5

n. farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith

Question 6

Apostate

Answer 6

n. one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions

Question 7

Apotheosis

Answer 7

n. deification; glorification to godliness; an exalted example; a model of excellence or perfection

Question 8

Asperity

Answer 8

n. severity,rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritablility

Question 9

Asseverate

Answer 9

v. to aver, allege, or assert

Question 10

Assiduous

Answer 10

adj. diligent, hard-working, sedulous

Question 11

Augury

Answer 11

n. omen, portent

Question 12

Bellicose

Answer 12

adj. belligerent, pugnacious, warlike

Question 13

Calumniate

Answer 13

v. to slander, to make false accusation; calumny means slander, aspersion

Question 14

Captious

Answer 14

adj. disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in argument

Question 15

Cavil

Answer 15

v. to find fault without good reason

Question 16

Celerity

Answer 16

n. speed, alacrity; think accelerate

Question 17

Chimera

Answer 17

n. an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she monster

Question 18

Contumacious

Answer 18

adj. insubordinate, rebellious; contumely means insult, scorn, aspersion

Question 19

Debacle

Answer 19

n. rout, fiasco, complete failure

Question 20

Denouement

Answer 20

n. an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot

Question 21

Descry

Answer 21

v. to discriminate or discern

Question 22

Desuetude

Answer 22

n. disuse

Question 23

Desultory

Answer 23

adj. random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose

Question 24

Diaphanous

Answer 24

adj. transparent, guazy

Question 25

Diffident

Answer 25

adj. reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence

Question 26

Dirge

Answer 26

n. a song of grief or lamentation

Question 27

Encomium

Answer 27

n.glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy

Question 28

Eschew

Answer 28

v. to shun or avoid

Question 29

Excoriate

Answer 29

v. to censure scathingly, to upbaid

Question 30

Execrate

Answer 30

v. to denounce, to feel loathing for, to curse, to declare to be evil

Question 31

Exegesis

Answer 31

n. critical examination, explication

Question 32

Expiate

Answer 32

v. to atone or make amends for

Question 33

Extirpate

Answer 33

v. to destroy, to exterminate, to cut out, to exscind

Question 34

Fatuous

Answer 34

adj. silly, inanely foolish

Question 35

Fractious

Answer 35

adj. quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable

Question 36

Gainsay

Answer 36

v. to deny, to dispute, to contradict, to oppose

Question 37

Heterodox

Answer 37

adj. unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic

Question 38

Imbroglio

Answer 38

n. difficult or embarrassing situation

Question 39

Indefatigable

Answer 39

adj. not easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged

Question 40

Ineluctable

Answer 40

adj. certain, inevitable

Question 41

Inimitable

Answer 41

adj. one of a kind, peerless