Deck 16

Question 1

arrogate

Answer 1

to assume presumptuously

Question 2

tenet

Answer 2

a principle accepted as authoritative

Question 3

desultory

Answer 3

moving in a random, directionless manner

Question 4

timorous

Answer 4

lacking courage, timid

Question 5

scourge

Answer 5

to whip severely

Question 6

tribunal

Answer 6

the seat of judgment

Question 7

perfidious

Answer 7

faithless; treacherous

Question 8

turbid

Answer 8

thick and dense; cloudy

Question 9

turpitude

Answer 9

vileness

Question 10

pinioned

Answer 10

bound

Question 11

pundits

Answer 11

a person claiming to have great knowledge

Question 12

unwonted

Answer 12

rare

Question 13

burnish

Answer 13

to polish by rubbing

Question 14

quagmire

Answer 14

marshy land

Question 15

iniquitous

Answer 15

wicked; unjust

Question 16

cabal

Answer 16

a group of persons joined by a secret

Question 17

viscid

Answer 17

thick; syrupy; sticky

Question 18

wrest

Answer 18

to usurp forcefully; to take from

Question 19

vogue

Answer 19

that which is accepted for the time (in fashion)

Question 20

welter

Answer 20

a confused mass; turmoil

Question 21

corroborate

Answer 21

to confirm validity

Question 22

aver

Answer 22

to affirm

Question 23

wizened

Answer 23

shriveled; withered

Question 24

bauble

Answer 24

a showy yet useless thing

Question 25

pommel

Answer 25

the rounded, upward-projecting front of a saddle