Deck 2

Question 1

acumen

Answer 1

keenness of judgment, mental sharpness

Question 2

adduce

Answer 2

to bring forward as an example or proof, to cite

Question 3

adherent

Answer 3

follower, supporter, believer

Question 4

adjourn

Answer 4

to suspend until another time

Question 5

adjunct

Answer 5

• something added to or connected with something else, an assistant
• adjunct professor: lacks permanent position on the faculty

Question 6

adulation

Answer 6

excessive admiration, flattery

Question 7

adulterate

Answer 7

to contaminate, to make impure

Question 8

advent

Answer 8

arrival, coming, beginning

Question 9

adventitious

Answer 9

accidental, connected to but nonetheless unrelated, irrelevant

Question 10

adverse

Answer 10

unfavorable, antagonistic

Question 11

affectation

Answer 11

unnatural or artificial behavior, usually intended to impress

Question 12

affidavit

Answer 12

a sworn written statement made before an official

Question 13

affinity

Answer 13

sympathy, attraction, kinship, similarity

Question 14

affliction

Answer 14

misery, illness, great suffering, a source of misery, illness, or great suffering

Question 15

afford

Answer 15

to give, supply, confer upon

Question 16

affront

Answer 16

insult, a deliberate act of disrespect

Question 17

aggrandize

Answer 17

to exaggerate, to cause to appear greater, to increase something in power, reputation, wealth, etc.

Question 18

aggregate

Answer 18

sum total, a collection of separate things mixed together

Question 19

aggrieve

Answer 19

to mistreat, to do grievous injury to, to distress

Question 20

agnostic

Answer 20

one to believes that the existence of a god can be neither proven nor disproven

Question 21

alacrity

Answer 21

cheerful eagerness or readiness to respond

Question 22

alchemy

Answer 22

• a seemingly magical process of transformation

- Middle Ages, alchemists were people who sought ways to turn metals into gold

Question 23

allege

Answer 23

to assert without proof

Question 24

allegiance

Answer 24

loyalty

Question 25

allegory

Answer 25

a story in which the characters are symbols with moral or spiritual meanings