Deck 25

Question 1

Platitude

Answer 1

Moral statement that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful

Question 2

Plaudits

Answer 2

Enthusiastic expression of approval

Question 3

Plenary

Answer 3

Full; complete; entire; absolute; unqualified

Question 4

Plum

Answer 4

Extremely desirable, profitable, rewarding

Question 5

Poignant

Answer 5

Affecting or moving the emotions

Intense, sincere, heartfelt

Question 6

Polymath

Answer 6

Person of great learning in several fields of study

Question 7

Pontificate

Answer 7

To speak or behave in a pompous manner

Office or term of office of a pontiff (usually the Pope)

Question 8

Populist

Answer 8

Member of the People’s party

Question 9

Posterity

Answer 9

Future or succeeding generations; all of one’s descendants

Question 10

Potable

Answer 10

Suitable for drinking

Question 11

Poultice

Answer 11

Soft/moist mass of cloth, bread, meal, herbs, etc. applied hot as a medicament to the body

Question 12

Precocious

Answer 12

Unusually advanced in development

Prematurely developed

Question 13

Predicated on

Answer 13

To proclaim; declare; affirm; assert

To make the predicate of a proposition

Question 14

Premeditated

Answer 14

Done deliberately; planned in advance

Question 15

Presage

Answer 15

Presentiment or foreboding; augury

Question 16

Prescient

Answer 16

Having knowledge of events before they take place

Question 17

Prig

Answer 17

Person who is smugly self-righteous and narrow-minded; demands conformity of others about trivialities

Question 18

Procure

Answer 18

To obtain for a specific purpose

Question 19

Profundity

Answer 19

Quality of being profound

Question 20

Progeny

Answer 20

Descendent or offspring

Something that results from something else; outcome