Deck 28

Question 1

spendthrift

Answer 1

n. someone who wastes money

Question 2

subsidy

Answer 2

n. direct financial aid by government

Question 3

traverse

Answer 3

v. go through or across

Question 4

upbraid

Answer 4

v. severely scold; reprimand

Question 5

adjacent

Answer 5

adj. adjoining; neighboring; close by

Question 6

amiable

Answer 6

adj. agreeable; lovable; warmly friendly

Question 7

apparition

Answer 7

n. ghost; phantom

Question 8

astringent

Answer 8

adj. binding; causing contraction

Question 9

bard

Answer 9

n. poet

Question 10

bludgeon

Answer 10

n. club; heavy-handed weapon

Question 11

calumny

Answer 11

n. malicious misrepresentation; slander

Question 12

collateral

Answer 12

n. security given for loan

Question 13

congruent

Answer 13

adj. in agreement; corresponding

Question 14

corrosive

Answer 14

adj. eating away by chemicals or disease

Question 15

debutante

Answer 15

n. young woman making formal entrance into society

Question 16

derange

Answer 16

v. make insane; disarrange

Question 17

discomposure

Answer 17

n. agitation; loss of poise

Question 18

elixir

Answer 18

n. cure-all; something invigorating

Question 19

epithet

Answer 19

n. inscription in memory of a dead person

Question 20

fraught

Answer 20

adj. filled

Question 21

glossy

Answer 21

adj. smooth and shining

Question 22

hiatus

Answer 22

n. gap; interruption in duration or continuity; pause

Question 23

impel

Answer 23

v. drive or force upward

Question 24

inimical

Answer 24

adj. unfriendly; hostile; harmful; detrimental

Question 25

invoke

Answer 25

v. call upon; ask for

Question 26

largess

Answer 26

n. generous gift

Question 27

malady

Answer 27

n. illness

Question 28

multifarious

Answer 28

adj. varied; greatly diversified

Question 29

obituary

Answer 29

adj. death notice

Question 30

outskirts

Answer 30

n. fringes; outer borders

Question 31

pique (v)

Answer 31

v. provoke or arouse; annoy

Question 32

propagate

Answer 32

v. multiply; spread

Question 33

quibble

Answer 33

n. minor objection or complaint

Question 34

serpentine

Answer 34

adj. winding; twisting

Question 35

sophisticated

Answer 35

adj. worldly-wise and urbane; complex

Question 36

stupor

Answer 36

n. state of apathy; daze; lack of awareness

Question 37

tacit

Answer 37

adj. understood; not put into words

Question 38

tract

Answer 38

n. region of land (often imprecisely described); pamphlet

Question 39

universal

Answer 39

adj. characterizing or affecting all; present everywhere

Question 40

academic

Answer 40

adj. related to a school; not particularly or directly useful

Question 41

acoustics

Answer 41

n. science of sound; quality that makes a room easy or hard to hear in

Question 42

agitate

Answer 42

v. stir up; disturb

Question 43

allude

Answer 43

v. refer indirectly

Question 44

annul

Answer 44

v. make void

Question 45

antiseptic

Answer 45

n. substance that prevents infection

Question 46

aristocracy

Answer 46

n. hereditary nobility; privileged class

Question 47

aseptic

Answer 47

adj. preventing infection; having a cleansing effect

Question 48

automaton

Answer 48

n. robot; person performing a task mechanically

Question 49

awry

Answer 49

adv. crooked; wrong; amiss

Question 50

benign

Answer 50

adj. kindly; favorable; not malignant

Question 51

bicameral

Answer 51

adj. two-chambered, as a legislative body

Question 52

brittle

Answer 52

adj. easily broken; difficult

Question 53

catharsis

Answer 53

n. purging or cleansing of any passage of the body

Question 54

cleave

Answer 54

v. split or sever; cling to; remain faithful to

Question 55

concave

Answer 55

adj. hollow

Question 56

contiguous

Answer 56

adj. adjacent to; touching upon

Question 57

deign

Answer 57

v. condescend; stoop

Question 58

dispirited

Answer 58

adj. lacking in spirit

Question 59

dwarf

Answer 59

v. cause to seem small

Question 60

evasive

Answer 60

adj. not frank; eluding(tending to evade)