Ch 1

Question 1

Salubrious

Answer 1

Promoting health or well-being

• carrots are salubrious for your eyes

Question 2

Labile

[ley-buhl]

Answer 2

Readily open to change, unstable

• emotionally labile

Question 3

Cacophony

Answer 3

Harsh, discordant sound

Dissonance

Question 4

Ebullience

[ih-bool-yuhns]

Answer 4

High spirits, exuberance

• her ebullience was contagious

Question 5

Bane

Noun

Answer 5

Cause of injury, source of harm or persistent frustration

• smoking is far more bane than benefit

Question 6

Welter

Answer 6

To toss about, to be in turmoil

• the sea weltered in the storm

Question 7

Waft

Answer 7

A light breeze, a puff

Question 8

Sagacious

Answer 8

Having sound judgment, perceptive wise

• sagacious decision

Question 9

Unfeigned

[uhn-feynd]

Answer 9

Genuine, not false or hypocritical

Question 10

Catalyst

Answer 10

Accelerates the rate of chemical reaction, person/thing that causes change

Question 11

Cadge

[kaj]

Answer 11

To beg, sponge, mooch

• he was always cadging change from me

Question 12

Panegyric

[pan-i-jir-ik]

Answer 12

Formal expression of praise

Question 13

Qualify

Answer 13

To modify or limit in some way; make less strong or positive

• to qualify an endorsement

Question 14

Salient

Answer 14

Prominent, protruding, conspicuous , highly relevant

Question 15

Umbrage

Answer 15

Offense, resentment

• I decided not to take umbrage at his insult

Question 16

Beatify

[bee-at-uh-fahy]

Answer 16

To bless, make happy

To regard as saintly

Question 17

Fallow

Answer 17

Inactive, dormant, not in use

Question 18

Jocose

Answer 18

Humorous, playful

• a jocose and amusing manner

Question 19

Rapacious

Answer 19

Greedy, plundering,subsisting on prey

Question 20

Pandemic

Answer 20

Widespread, occurring over a large area

Question 21

Daunt

Answer 21

To intimidate or dismay, to overcome with fear

Question 22

Obeisance

Answer 22

Gesture that expresses deference, such as a bow/curtsy

Question 23

Garner

Answer 23

To gather and save, store up, acquire

Question 24

Abate

Answer 24

To lessen in intensity or degree

• the storm had abated

Question 25

Malinger | [muh-ling-ger]

Answer 25

To pretend illness

Question 26

Venal

Answer 26

Capable of being bought or bribed

Question 27

Fallacy

Answer 27

An invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief

Question 28

Lassitude

Answer 28

Listlessness, weariness, lack of energy • those 2 push ups filled me with lassitude for the rest of the day

Question 29

Damp | V

Answer 29

(v) to diminish the intensity | To check something

Question 30

Natty

Answer 30

Trimly neat and tidy