Deck 18

Question 1

envision

Answer 1

to imagine, to foresee

Question 2

epicure

Answer 2

• a person with refined taste in wine and food

- adjective form is EPICUREAN

Question 3

epitome

Answer 3

brief summary that captures the meaning of the whole, the perfect example of something, a paradigm (model)

Question 4

epoch

Answer 4

an era, a distinctive period of time

Question 5

equanimity

Answer 5

composure, calm

Question 6

equitable

Answer 6

fair

Question 7

equivocal

Answer 7

ambiguous, intentionally confusing

Question 8

erudite

Answer 8

scholarly, deeply learned

Question 9

esoteric

Answer 9

hard to understand, understood only by a few, peculiar

Question 10

espouse

Answer 10

to support, to advocate

Question 11

estimable

Answer 11

worthy of admiration, capable of being estimated

Question 12

estrange

Answer 12

to make unfriendly or hostile, to cause to feel removed from

Question 13

eulogy

Answer 13

a spoken or written tribute to a person, esp. a person who has just died

Question 14

evanscent

Answer 14

fleeting, vanishing, happening for only the briefest period

Question 15

exacerbate

Answer 15

to make worse

Question 16

exalt

Answer 16

to raise high, to glorify

Question 17

exacting

Answer 17

extremely demanding, difficult, requiring great skill or care

Question 18

evince

Answer 18

to demonstrate convincingly, to prove

Question 19

excise

Answer 19

to remove by cutting or as if by cutting

Question 20

exempt

Answer 20

excused, not subject to

Question 21

exhaustive

Answer 21

thorough, rigorous, complete, painstaking

Question 22

exhort

Answer 22

• to urge strongly, to give serious warning to

- adj form is HORTATORY

Question 23

exhume

Answer 23

to unbury, to dig out of the ground

Question 24

exigency

Answer 24

an emergency, an urgency

Question 25

existential

Answer 25

having to do with existence, having to do with the thought that humans are responsible for their own actions