Deck 15

Question 1

Autodidact

Answer 1

A self-taught person

Question 2

Avant-garde

Answer 2

Advance group in any field; work characterized by unorthodox and experimental methods

Question 3

Bald

Answer 3

Plain, blunt, simple

Question 4

Balkanize

Answer 4

To divide into small, contenting, ineffectual factions

Question 5

Ballast

Answer 5

Something heavy carried to give desired weight

Anything that gives mental, moral, or political stability or steadiness

Question 6

Beguile

Answer 6

Influence by trickery, flatter; deceive; mislead

Question 7

Bedizen

Answer 7

To dress or adorn in showy, gaudy, tasteless manner

Question 8

Belletristic

Answer 8

Literature regarded as fine art, especially with a purely aesthetic function

Question 9

Beseech

Answer 9

To implore urgently

Question 10

Besmirch

Answer 10

To soil, tarnish, discolor

Question 11

Besotted

Answer 11

Intoxicated; drunk

Infatuated; obsessed

Question 12

Blandishments

Answer 12

Something (action or speech) that tends to flatter, coax, entice, etc.

Question 13

Blather

Answer 13

Foolish, voluble talk

Question 14

Bleat

Answer 14

To utter the sound of a sheep, goat

Question 15

Boisterous

Answer 15

Rough, noisy

Question 16

Boon

Answer 16

Something to be thankful for; blessing

Something that is asked; a favor sought

Question 17

Boondoggle

Answer 17

Work of little or no value done only to keep busy

Question 18

Boosterism

Answer 18

The action of enthusiastically promoting something

Question 19

Breadth

Answer 19

Size in general, extent

Measured by width

Question 20

Cabal

Answer 20

Small group of secret plotters