Beyond the Key Terms Group 1

Question 1

alloy

Answer 1

to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior

Question 2

appropriate

Answer 2

to take for one’s own use; to confiscate

Question 3

arrest, arresting

Answer 3

to suspend; to engage; holding one’s attention: as in an arresting portrait

Question 4

august

Answer 4

majestic, venerable

Question 5

bent

Answer 5

leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency

Question 6

broach

Answer 6

to bring up; to announce; to begin to talk about

Question 7

brook

Answer 7

to tolerate; to endure; to countenance

Question 8

cardinal

Answer 8

major, as in a cardinal sin

Question 9

chauvinist

Answer 9

a blindly devoted patriot

Question 10

color

Answer 10

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

Question 11

consequential

Answer 11

pompous, self-important (primary definitions are logically following; important)

Question 12

damp

Answer 12

to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound

Question 13

die

Answer 13

a tool used for shaping, as in a tool-and-die shop

Question 14

essay

Answer 14

to test or try; to attempt; to experiment

Question 15

exact

Answer 15

to demand; to call for; to require; to take

Question 16

fell

Answer 16

to cause to fall by striking

Question 17

fell

Answer 17

inhumanly cruel

Question 18

flag

Answer 18

to sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline

Question 19

flip

Answer 19

sarcastic, impertinent, as in flippant: a flip remark

Question 20

ford

Answer 20

to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream

Question 21

grouse

Answer 21

to complain or grumble

Question 22

guy

Answer 22

a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy: think guide.

Question 23

intimate

Answer 23

to imply, suggest, or insinuate

Question 24

list

Answer 24

a tilt or lean to one side

Question 25

lumber

Answer 25

to move heavily and clumsily

Question 26

meet

Answer 26

fitting, proper

Question 27

milk

Answer 27

to exploit; to squeeze every last ounce of

Question 28

mince

Answer 28

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

Question 29

nice

Answer 29

exacting, fastidious, extremely precise

Question 30

occult

Answer 30

hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension

Question 31

pedestrian

Answer 31

commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian

Question 32

pied

Answer 32

multicolored, usually in blotches

Question 33

pine

Answer 33

to lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn

Question 34

plastic

Answer 34

moldable, pliable, not rigid

Question 35

pluck

Answer 35

courage, spunk, fortitude

Question 36

prize

Answer 36

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

Question 37

rail

Answer 37

to complain about bitterly

Question 38

rent

Answer 38

torn; an opening or tear caused by such

Question 39

quail

Answer 39

to lose courage; to turn frightened

Question 40

qualify

Answer 40

to limit

Question 41

sap

Answer 41

to enervate or weaken the vitality of

Question 42

sap

Answer 42

a fool or nitwit

Question 43

scurvy

Answer 43

contemptible, despicable

Question 44

singular

Answer 44

exceptional, unusual, odd

Question 45

stand

Answer 45

a group of trees

Question 46

steep

Answer 46

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

Question 47

strut

Answer 47

the supporting structural cross-part of a wing

Question 48

table

Answer 48

to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration

Question 49

tender

Answer 49

to proffer or offer

Question 50

waffle

Answer 50

to equivocate; to change one’s position

Question 51

wag

Answer 51

wit, joker