Crime And Punishment: 2

Question 1

Inveterate (adj)

Answer 1

Settled or confirmed in a habit, practice, or feeling

Question 2

Supercilious (adj)

Answer 2

Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression

Question 3

Jaunty (adj)

Answer 3

Easy and sprightly in manner or bearing

Question 4

Gibe (v)

Answer 4

To utter mocking or scoffing words; to jeer

Question 5

Apathy (n)

Answer 5

Absence or suppression of passion, emotion, or excitement

Question 6

Haughty (adj)

Answer 6

Disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious

Question 7

Admonition (n)

Answer 7

An act of counseling, advising, or cautioning

Question 8

Infamy (n)

Answer 8

Extremely bad reputation

Question 9

Providential (adj)

Answer 9

Opportune, fortunate, or lucky

Question 10

Guffaw (n)

Answer 10

A loud, unrestrained burst of laughter

Question 11

Sloven (n)

Answer 11

A person who is habitually negligent of neatness or cleanliness of dress

Question 12

Vouchsafe (v)

Answer 12

To grant or give as if a favor

Question 13

Diffident (adj)

Answer 13

Lacking confidence in ones own ability, worth, or fitness

Question 14

Sumptuous (adj)

Answer 14

Entailing great expense, as from choice materials, fine work, etc; costly

Question 15

Unfeigned (adj)

Answer 15

Not sincere or genuine

Question 16

Apropos (adj)

Answer 16

Opportune, pertinent

Question 17

Corpulence (n)

Answer 17

Bulkiness of largeness of body

Question 18

Mawkish (adj)

Answer 18

Sentimental in a feeble or sickly way

Question 19

Jovial (adj)

Answer 19

Characterized by a hearty, joyous humor or a spirit of good fellowship

Question 20

Castigate (v)

Answer 20

To criticize or reprimand severely