deck 3

Question 1

adversary

Answer 1

noun - one’s opponent in a contest, rival, enemy

Question 2

adversity

Answer 2

noun - difficulties; misfortune; hardship

Question 3

adverse

Answer 3

adj - preventing success or development; unfavorable, inauspicious

Question 4

ardent

Answer 4

adj - enthusiastic or passionate; fervent, zealous

Question 5

ardently

Answer 5

adv - done in an enthusiastic or passionate manner

Question 6

ardor

Answer 6

noun - enthusiasm or passion; fervor, zeal

Question 7

console

Answer 7

verb - comfort (someone at a time of grief or disappointment); support, sympathize with

Question 8

consolation

Answer 8

noun - comfort received by a person after a loss or disappointment

Question 9

countenance

Answer 9

noun - a person’s face or facial expression; features, looks

Question 10

despondency

Answer 10

noun - the state or being despondent or extremely low in spirits; melancholy

Question 11

despondent

Answer 11

adj - in low spirits from loss of hope or courage; disheartened, discouraged, dispirited.

Question 12

dissipate

Answer 12

verb - disappear or cause to disappear; vanish

Question 13

elude

Answer 13

verb - evade or escape from (a danger, enemy, pursuer), typically in a skillful or cunning way; avoid
ALSO superfluity (of an idea or fact) fail to be grasped or remembered by (someone)

Question 14

elusive

Answer 14

adj - difficult to find, catch or achieve OR difficult to remember or recall

Question 15

incredulous

Answer 15

adj - unwilling or unable to believe something; disbelieving, skeptical

Question 16

incredulity

Answer 16

noun - the state of being unwilling or unable to believe something; disbelief, non belief

Question 17

induce

Answer 17

verb - succeed in persuading or influencing (someone) to do something

Question 18

inducement

Answer 18

noun - a thing that persuades or influences someone to do something

Question 19

lament

Answer 19

verb - mourn (a person’s loss or death); grieve

Question 20

lamentation

Answer 20

noun - the passionate expression of grief or sorrow; weeping

Question 21

languid

Answer 21

adj - displaying exhaustion; lathargic

Question 22

languish

Answer 22

verb - looks or lack vitality; grow week or feeble; weaken deteriorate

Question 23

languor

Answer 23

noun - the state or feeling, often unpleasant, of tiredness or inertia; lethargy, fatigue

Question 24

machination

Answer 24

noun - a plot or scheme; plot

Question 25

machinate

Answer 25

verb - engage in plots and intrigues; scheme.

Question 26

peril

Answer 26

noun - serious and immediate

Question 27

perilous

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adj - full of danger or risk; hazardous, risky, unsafe

Question 28

repose

Answer 28

noun - a state of rest, sleep, or tranquility; rest, relaxation

Question 29

repose

Answer 29

verb - lie down in rest; sleep

Question 30

superfluous

Answer 30

adj - unnecessary, especially through more than enough; unneeded, redundant

Question 31

superfluity

Answer 31

noun - an unnecessarily or excessively large amount of number of something