Chapter 4

Question 0

(Adj) Resembling or suggesting an animal or beast, brutal; repulsive

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Bestial

Question 1

(V) To reduce in intensity or severity

Answer 1

Allay

Question 2

(V) to avoid being stopped by (something); to get around

Answer 2

Circumvent

Question 3

(V) to cancel/revoke (a command) by a contrary order

Answer 3

Countermand

Question 4

(N) a person of thing that attracts a lot of attention/interest; center of attention

Answer 4

Cynosure

Question 5

(V) an act that one considers to be beneath ones dignity (superiority)

Answer 5

Deign

Question 6

(N) a person having a superficial interest in art

Answer 6

Dilettante

Question 7

(Adj) Recurring everyday; daily

Answer 7

Diurnal

Question 8

(V) to come out from a source

Answer 8

Emanate

Question 9

(Adj) not firm or stiff; lacking strength of force; flappy

Answer 9

Flaccid

Question 10

(Adj) having little or no money

Answer 10

Impecunious

Question 11

(Adj) not able to be proved wrong; can’t be argued

Answer 11

Irrefutable

Question 12

(Adj) feeling or showing lack of interest of enthusiasm (lazy)

Answer 12

Lackadaisical

Question 13

(Adj) involving death of violence as a subject

Answer 13

Macabre

Question 14

(N) a mixture of different things

Answer 14

Mélange

Question 15

(Adj) stupid or unintelligent; blunt

Answer 15

Obtuse

Question 16

(V) to move in one direction and then back again many times; changing from one belief and back to the other

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Oscillate

Question 17

(v/n) to refuse (something) in a rude way

Answer 17

Rebuff

Question 18

(N) The act of ending (a connection, employment, relationship)

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Severance

Question 19

(Adj) equivalent in value, meaning, or effect

Answer 19

Tantamount