Direct Hits People Vocabulary 3

Question 1

Charlatan

Answer 1

a fake; fraud; imposter; cheat

Question 2

Skeptic

Answer 2

a person who doubts, asks, questions, and lacks faith

Question 3

Rhetorician

Answer 3

an eloquent writer or speaker; a master of rhetoric (the art of speaking and writing)

Question 4

Hedonist

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a person who believes that pleasure is the chief goal of life

Question 5

Ascetic

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a person who gives up material comforts and leads a life of self-denial, especially as an act of religious devotion

Question 6

Ranconteur

Answer 6

a person who attacks and ridicules cherished figures, ideas, and institutions

Question 7

Iconoclast

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a person who attacks and ridicules cherished figures, ideas, and institutions

Question 8

Partisan

Answer 8

a supporter of a person, party, or cause; a person with strong and perhaps biased beliefs

Question 9

Polymath

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a person whose expertise spans a significant number of subject areas

Question 10

Dilettante

Answer 10

an amateur or dabbler; a person with a superficial interest in an art or branch of knowledge; a trifler

Question 11

Mentor

Answer 11

an advisor; a teacher; a guide

Question 12

Acolyte

Answer 12

a devoted follower

Question 13

Demagogue

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a leader who appeals to the fears, emotions, and prejudices of the populace

Question 14

Automation

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a self-operating machine; a mindless follower; a person who acts in a mechanical fashion

Question 15

Recluse

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a person who leads a secluded or solitary life

Question 16

Bungler

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someone who is clumsy or inept; a person who makes mistakes because of incompetence

Question 17

Clairvoyant

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having the supposed power to see objects and events that cannot be perceived with the five traditional senses; as a noun, a seer

Question 18

Prognosticator

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a person who makes predictions based upon current information and data

Question 19

Pundit

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an expert commentator; an authority who expresses his or her opinion, usually on political issues

Question 20

Zealot

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a very enthusiastic person; a champion; a true believer, perhaps to an excessive degree; a fanatic

Question 21

Neophyte, Novice, Greenhorn

Answer 21

a beginner; someone new to a field or activity

Question 22

Benefactor, Patron

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a person who makes a gift or bequest

Question 23

Beneficiary

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the recipient of funds, titles, property, and other benefits

Question 24

Dissembler, Prevaricator

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a liar and deciever

Question 25

Proponent

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one who argues in support of something; an advocate; a champion of a cause

Question 26

Prodigy

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a person with great talent; a young genius

Question 27

Oracle

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a person considered to be oracular, that is a source of wise counsel or prophetic opinions

Question 28

Misanthrope

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a person who hates or distrusts humankind | miso (hate) anthrope (humankind)

Question 29

Innovator

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a person who introduces something new

Question 30

Sycophant

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a person seeks favor by flattering people of influence; a toady; someone who behaves in an obsequious or servile manner

Question 31

Stoic, Stolid

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a person who is seemingly indifferent to or unaffected by joy, grief, pleasure, or pain; impassive and emotionless

Question 32

Reprobate

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a morally unprincipled person

Question 33

Renegade

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a disloyal person who betrays his or her cause; a traitor; a deserter

Question 34

Mendicant

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begging

Question 35

Dupe

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mislead

Question 36

Unwary

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incautious

Question 37

Spurious

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false

Question 38

Charismatic

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magnetic and inspiring

Question 39

Pejorative

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negative

Question 40

Sage

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profoundly wise

Question 41

Villainous

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vile, deprived, wicked

Question 42

Epitome

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perfect example

Question 43

Deductive

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drawing conlusionsbased on reasoning from the general to the particular

Question 44

Prognosis

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a forecast concerning the causes of his disease and outlining the chances of recovery

Question 45

Morphed

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transform

Question 46

bene

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good, well

Question 47

benevolence

Answer 47

good will towards others

Question 48

Benediction

Answer 48

the act of blessing

Question 49

pone, pose

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to place, set, put

Question 50

Depose

Answer 50

to remove from office

Question 51

Repose

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to rest

Question 52

Impose

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to place on, as a penalty

Question 53

Exponent

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a person who sets forth or interprets

Question 54

Posit

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to assert, to declare

Question 55

Precocious

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very advanced

Question 56

Progenitor

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originator

Question 57

Miserly

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very stingy

Question 58

miso

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hate

Question 59

philo

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love

Question 60

anthropy

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humankind

Question 61

nov

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new

Question 62

Haughty

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arrogant

Question 63

Squandered

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wasted

Question 64

Vilified

Answer 64

slandered, defamed