Boot Camp Set 6

Question 0

flower

Answer 0

v. to reach the best or most vigorous stage

Question 1

querulous

Answer 1

adj. inclined to find fault; complaining; full of complaint

Question 2

marshal

Answer 2

v. to arrange in order

Question 3

elaborate

Answer 3

adj. detailed; carefully thorough; v. to develop with care or at greater length
n. elaboration

Question 4

lewd

Answer 4

adj. preoccupied with sex and sexual desire

Question 5

hallowed

Answer 5

adj. made or set apart as holy

v. hallow

Question 6

hefty

Answer 6

adj. heavy; big and strong, muscular; of considerable size or amount
n. heft

Question 7

milestone

Answer 7

n. an important event

Question 8

mortal

Answer 8

adj. subject to death; causing death

Question 9

ascertain

Answer 9

v. to discover with certainty, as through examination

Question 10

quixotic

Answer 10

adj. foolishly idealistic; extravagantly chivalrous; impulsive or capricious

Question 11

indelible

Answer 11

adj. incapable of being removed or erased

Question 12

discern

Answer 12

v. to perceive and understand so as to make distinctions

Question 13

garner

Answer 13

v. to get or earn; to collect or gather

Question 14

insight

Answer 14

n. the power to sense or understand something

adj. insightful

Question 15

slovenly

Answer 15

adj. careless about one’s own appearance

Question 16

banal

Answer 16

adj. dull or stale; commonplace

n. banality

Question 17

robust

Answer 17

adj. strong and full of health

Question 18

indignation

Answer 18

n. anger aroused by something unjust or evil

adj. indignant

Question 19

contagious

Answer 19

adj. transmissible by direct or indirect contact; likely to affect others
n. contagion

Question 20

plausible

Answer 20

adj. appearing worthy of belief or trust

n. plausibility

Question 21

hypothesis

Answer 21

n. a tentative explanation; something assumed true for the sake of argument or investigation
adj. hypothetical

Question 22

exude

Answer 22

v. to give off; to emit; to radiate

Question 23

novel

Answer 23

adj. strikingly new

n. novelty

Question 24

auspicious

Answer 24

adj. showing signs of a favorable outcome; marked by favorable circumstances

Question 25

luminous

Answer 25

adj. emitting light, esp. self-generated; intellectually brilliant

Question 26

indiscriminate

Answer 26

adj. unselective; random; unrestrained

Question 27

memento

Answer 27

n. a reminder or a souvenir

Question 28

transient

Answer 28

adj. passing with time; remaining only briefly | n. transience

Question 29

integrity

Answer 29

n. moral or artistic honesty; strength of character

Question 30

stifle

Answer 30

v. to interrupt or cut off; to keep in or hold back; to suffocate or smother adj. stifling

Question 31

empirical

Answer 31

adj. based on experience rather than a theory | n. empiricism

Question 32

best

Answer 32

v. to defeat

Question 33

dismay

Answer 33

Av. to destroy courage or resolution; to cause to lose enthusiasm, to disillusion

Question 34

laconic

Answer 34

adj. brief in speech; using few words

Question 35

discreet

Answer 35

adj. careful about what one sats or does; circumspect; done, said, or placed so as to attract little notice n. discretion

Question 36

catastrophe

Answer 36

n. disaster; sudden misfortune | adj. catastrophic

Question 37

reverberate

Answer 37

v. to reecho | n. reverberation

Question 38

excrete

Answer 38

v. to separate (waste matter) and eliminate from the body

Question 39

matrix

Answer 39

n. a surrounding substance within which something else originates or is contained pl. matrices

Question 40

scorn

Answer 40

n. a feeling of contempt or disdain

Question 41

obsequious

Answer 41

adj. showing too great a willingness to serve or obey

Question 42

amicable

Answer 42

adj. showing friendliness or good will

Question 43

narcissistic

Answer 43

adj. excessively interested in one's own appearance, comfort, importance, etc. n. narcissism

Question 44

contiguous

Answer 44

adj. sharing a common boundary; adjoining

Question 45

desolate

Answer 45

adj. left alone; lonely; deserted | n. desolation

Question 46

own

Answer 46

v. to admit, esp. taking personal responsibility for one's own actions or thoughts

Question 47

giddy

Answer 47

adj. dizzy; lightheaded

Question 48

malfeasance

Answer 48

n. wrongdoing, esp. by a public official | adj. malfeasant

Question 49

equanimity

Answer 49

n. evenness of temper, esp. as a characteristic state