Deck 12

Question 1

askance

Answer 1

a sideways glance of disapproval

Question 2

maculate

Answer 2

spotted, blotched, defiled, impure

Question 3

fulsome

Answer 3

disgusting due to excess

Question 4

betrothed

Answer 4

to promise or pledge in marriage

Question 5

epiphany

Answer 5

sudden, intuitive insight into reality or the essential meaning of something

Question 6

dissemble

Answer 6

to pretend; to feign; to conceal by pretense

Question 7

defunct

Answer 7

no longer living or existing

Question 8

asperity

Answer 8

harshness

Question 9

contusion

Answer 9

a bruise; an injury in which the skin is not broken

Question 10

contumacious

Answer 10

resisting authority

Question 11

descant

Answer 11

to talk or write at length

Question 12

obsequious

Answer 12

servilely attentive, fawning

Question 13

reprehensible

Answer 13

deserving a reprimand

Question 14

lugubrious

Answer 14

full of sorrow, mournful

Question 15

circumlocation

Answer 15

indirect way of speaking, not to the point

Question 16

marauder

Answer 16

plunderer or raider

Question 17

maudlin

Answer 17

foolishly and tearfully sentimental

Question 18

maverick

Answer 18

a person who does not conform to the norm

Question 19

castigate

Answer 19

to punish through public criticism

Question 20

prevaricate

Answer 20

to speak equivocally or evasively; to lie

Question 21

minatory

Answer 21

threatening

Question 22

incorrigible

Answer 22

not capable of improvement or correction

Question 23

prescience

Answer 23

knowing about something before it happens

Question 24

motility

Answer 24

spontaneous motion

Question 25

nascent

Answer 25

starting to grow or develop