Day 1

Question 1

aardvark

Answer 1

a large, nocturnal, burrowing mammal

Question 2

abacus

Answer 2

a device for making arithmetic calculations

Question 3

abalone

Answer 3

a large mollusk of the genus Haliotis

Question 4

abattoir

Answer 4

a slaughterhouse

Question 5

abbacy

Answer 5

the office, dignity, jurisdiction, or tenure of an abbot

Question 6

aberrance

Answer 6

1. deviating from the usual or natural type 2. straying from the right or normal way

Question 7

abeyance

Answer 7

1. a state of temporary inactivity 2. ..

Question 8

abiogenesis

Answer 8

the origin of life from nonliving matter

Question 9

abomasum

Answer 9

the fourth compartment of the ruminant stomach

Question 10

abscissa

Answer 10

the horizontal coordinate of a point in a plane Cartesian coordinate system . .

Question 11

abstemious

Answer 11

marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol

Question 12

abyssal

Answer 12

1. unfathomable 2. of or relating to the bottom waters of the ocean depths

Question 13

accidie

Answer 13

acedia ( apathy; boredom )

Question 14

acerbity

Answer 14

the quality of being acerbic

Question 15

acetaldehyde

Answer 15

a colorless volatile water-soluble liquid aldehyde C2H4O used chiefly in organic synthesis

Question 16

achene

Answer 16

a small dry indehiscent one-seeded fruit developing from a simple ovary

Question 17

acoustic

Answer 17

1. of/relating to the sense or organs of hearing,etc. 2. of/relating to/being a musical instrument (whose sound’s not electronically modified)

Question 18

acquiesce

Answer 18

to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively

Question 19

acrylonitrile

Answer 19

a colorless volatile flammable liquid nitrile C3H3N (used chiefly in organic synthesis and for polymerization)

Question 20

adagio

Answer 20

at a slow tempo

Question 21

addle

Answer 21

1. of an egg; rotten 2. confused

Question 22

administratrix

Answer 22

a woman who is an administrator especially of an estate

Question 23

adolescence

Answer 23

the period of life when a child develops into an adult

Question 24

aedile

Answer 24

an official in ancient Rome in charge of public works and games, etc.

Question 25

aesthete

Answer 25

one having or affecting sensitivity to the beautiful especially in art

Question 26

agglomerate

Answer 26

to gather into a ball, mass, or cluster

Question 27

aggrandize

Answer 27

to make great or greater

Question 28

agouti

Answer 28

any of a genus (Dasyprocta) of tropical American rodents (about the size of a rabbit)

Question 29

aikido

Answer 29

a Japanese art of self-defense

Question 30

albumin

Answer 30

any of numerous simple heat-coagulable water-soluble proteins (that occur in blood plasma or serum, muscle, the whites of eggs, etc.)

Question 31

alkyne

Answer 31

any of a series of open-chain hydrocarbons CnH2n−2

Question 32

allophone

Answer 32

one of two or more variants of the same phoneme

Question 33

alluvium

Answer 33

clay, silt, sand, gravel, or similar detrital material deposited by running water

Question 34

alpaca

Answer 34

a domesticated mammal especially of Peru

Question 35

amanuensis

Answer 35

one employed to write from dictation or to copy manuscript

Question 36

ambivalence

Answer 36

simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings toward an object, person, or action

Question 37

ameliorative

Answer 37

to make better or more tolerable

Question 38

ampoule

Answer 38

a hermetically sealed small bulbous glass vessel (that is used to hold a solution for hypodermic injection)

Question 39

anacoluthon

Answer 39

syntactical inconsistency or incoherence within a sentence

Question 40

androgynous

Answer 40

having the characteristics or nature of both male and female

Question 41

anesthesiology

Answer 41

a branch of medical science dealing with anesthesia and anesthetics