Deck 24

Question 1

timorous

Answer 1

adj. fearful; demonstrating fear

Question 2

surrogate

Answer 2

n. substitute

Question 3

stint

Answer 3

n. supply; allotted amount; assigned portion of work

Question 4

smolder

Answer 4

v. burn without flame; be liable to break out at any moment

Question 5

secrete

Answer 5

v. hide away; produce and release a substance into an organism

Question 6

roil

Answer 6

v. to make liquids murky by stirring up sediment

Question 7

sacrosanct

Answer 7

adj. most sacred; inviolable

Question 8

repress

Answer 8

v. restrain; crush; oppress

Question 9

receptive

Answer 9

adj. quick or willing to receive ideas, suggestions, etc.

Question 10

pusillanimous

Answer 10

adj. cowardly; fainthearted

Question 11

progenitor

Answer 11

n. ancestor

Question 12

philistine

Answer 12

n. narrow-minded person, uncultured and exclusively interested in material gain

Question 13

partiality

Answer 13

n. inclination; bias

Question 14

ordeal

Answer 14

n. severe trial or affliction

Question 15

noncomittal

Answer 15

adj. neutral; unpledged; undecided

Question 16

monotony

Answer 16

n. sameness leading to boredom

Question 17

medley

Answer 17

n. mixture

Question 18

addiction

Answer 18

n. compulsive, habitual need

Question 19

accoutre

Answer 19

v. equip

Question 20

amble

Answer 20

n. moving at an easy pace

Question 21

allegory

Answer 21

n. story in which characters are used as symbols; fable

Question 22

artifice

Answer 22

n. deception; trickery

Question 23

balmy

Answer 23

adj. mild; fragrant

Question 24

bestow

Answer 24

v. give

Question 25

blasphemy

Answer 25

n. irreverence; sacrilege; cursing

Question 26

catapult

Answer 26

n. slingshot; a hurling machine

Question 27

celebrated

Answer 27

adj. famous; well-known

Question 28

chaffing

Answer 28

adj. bantering; joking

Question 29

contempt

Answer 29

n. scorn; disdain

Question 30

decrepit

Answer 30

adj. worn out by age

Question 31

defunct

Answer 31

adj. dead; no longer in use or existence

Question 32

desolate (adj)

Answer 32

adj. unpopulated

Question 33

demeanor

Answer 33

n. behavior; bearing

Question 34

encomium

Answer 34

n. high praise; eulogy

Question 35

divest

Answer 35

v. strip; deprive

Question 36

dissipate

Answer 36

v. squander; waste; scatter

Question 37

erotic

Answer 37

adj. arousing sexual desire; pertaining to sexual love

Question 38

etymology

Answer 38

n. study of word parts

Question 39

expropriate

Answer 39

v. take possession of

Question 40

fabricate

Answer 40

v. build; lie

Question 41

fissure

Answer 41

n. crevice

Question 42

fulsome

Answer 42

adj. disgustingly excessive

Question 43

gambit

Answer 43

n. opening in chess in which a piece is sacrificed

Question 44

generic

Answer 44

adj. characteristic of an entire class or species

Question 45

impervious

Answer 45

adj. impenetrable; incapable of being damaged or distressed

Question 46

inveterate

Answer 46

adj. deep-rooted; habitual

Question 47

irrefutable

Answer 47

adj. indisputable; incontrovertible; undeniable

Question 48

jaunt

Answer 48

n. trip; short journey

Question 49

kindle

Answer 49

v. start a fire; inspire

Question 50

merger

Answer 50

n. combination (of two business corporations)

Question 51

muted

Answer 51

adj. silent; muffled; toned down

Question 52

noisome

Answer 52

adj. foul-smelling; unwholesome

Question 53

ostensible

Answer 53

adj. apparent; professed; pretended

Question 54

pathos

Answer 54

n. tender sorrow; pity; quality in art or literature that produces these feelings

Question 55

precipitate (adj)

Answer 55

adj. rash; premature; hasty; sudden

Question 56

potential

Answer 56

adj. expressing possibility; latent

Question 57

propulsive

Answer 57

adj. driving forward

Question 58

recumbent

Answer 58

adj. reclining; lying down completely or in part

Question 59

requisite

Answer 59

n. necessary requirement

Question 60

rustic

Answer 60

adj. pertaining to country people; uncouth