Chunks 7 & 8

Question 1

Extirpate

Answer 1

Verb.

To destroy, to exterminate, cut out, excind

Question 2

Forswear

Answer 2

Verb.
Renounce; disallow; repudiate;
Agree to give up or do without something.

Question 3

Ignoble

Answer 3

Adjective.

Dishonorable; common; undignified

Question 4

Ostensible

Answer 4

Adjective.

Seeming; appearing as such; professed; stated or appearing to be true, but not necessarily so.

Question 5

Illusory

Answer 5

Adjective.

Deceptive; an illusion

Question 6

Overweening

Answer 6

Adjective.

Presumptuously arrogant; overbearing; immoderate; being a jerk

Question 7

Wag

Answer 7

Verb
To be incessantly active; to waddle

Noun
Also a mischievous person.

Question 8

Lucubrate

Answer 8

Verb

Write in scholarly fashion

Question 9

Impetuous

Answer 9

Adjective

Impulsive; forceful, with energy

Question 10

Bellicose

Answer 10

Adjective

Belligerent; pugnacious; warlike; demonstrating aggression and willingness to fight.

Question 11

Cabal

Answer 11

Noun

A scheme or plot; a group of plotters

Question 12

Irresolute

Answer 12

Adjective

Unresolved; indecisive

Question 13

Complaisance

Answer 13

Noun

Tending to comply; obliging; willingness to please

Question 14

Apprise

Answer 14

Verb

Give notice to; inform

Question 15

Polemical

Answer 15

Adjective

Controversial; argued

Question 16

Lucent

Answer 16

Adjective

Easily understood; lucid; clear

Question 17

Engender

Answer 17

Verb

Cause people are produce; give rise to

Question 18

Dissemble

Answer 18

Verb

To hide; conceal; disguise

Question 19

Equanimity

Answer 19

Noun

Classes of temperament; mental calmness

Question 20

Ingenuous

Answer 20

Adjective

Naive; young artless; frank; honest; sincere; innocent and unsuspecting

Question 21

Epicure

Answer 21

Noun

Food lover; a connoisseur of food

Question 22

Salient

Answer 22

Adjective

Prominent; protruding; conspicuous; highly relevant; most noticeable or important

Question 23

Inchoate

Answer 23

Adjective

Not fully informed; rudimentary; elementary

Question 24

Pugnacious

Answer 24

Adjective

Contentious; quarrelsome; given to fighting; belligerent; easier or quick to argue

Question 25

Peremptory

Answer 25

Adjective

Urgent; imperative; unchallengeable; ending debate

Question 26

Exigency

Answer 26

Noun

Emergency; an urgent situation; urgent need/demand

Question 27

Umbrage

Answer 27

Noun.

Offense, resentment