Eng List 5, 6, 7

Question 0

bruit

Answer 0

to voice abroad; rumor

noise; din; clamor

Question 1

abortive

Answer 1

unsuccessful; failing to succeed

born prematurely

imperfectly developed; rudimentary

Question 2

contumelious

Answer 2

insulting display of contempt in words or actions; contemptuous or humiliating treatment.

a humiliating insult.

Question 3

dictum

Answer 3

an authoritative pronouncement; judicial assertion.

a saying; maxim.

an incidental or passing remark, opinion, etc.

Question 4

ensconce

Answer 4

to settle securely or snugly.

to cover or shelter; hide securely.

Question 5

iconoclastic

Answer 5

attacking or ignoring cherished beliefs and long-held traditions, as being based on error, superstition, or lack of creativity

breaking or destroying images, especially those set up for religious veneration.

Question 6

in medias res

Answer 6

in the middle of things

Question 7

internecine

Answer 7

of or pertaining to conflict or struggle within a group.

mutually destructive.

characterized by great slaughter; deadly.

Question 8

maladroit

Answer 8

lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless

Question 9

maudlin

Answer 9

tearfully or weakly emotional; foolishly sentimental

Question 10

modulate

Answer 10

to regulate by or adjust to a certain measure or proportion; soften; tone down.

to alter or adapt (the voice) according to the circumstances, one’s listener, etc.

Question 11

portentous

Answer 11

ominously significant or ominously significant or indicative

Question 12

prescience

Answer 12

knowledge of things before they exist or happen; foreknowledge; foresight

Question 13

quid pro quo

Answer 13

one thing in return for another

Question 14

saturnalia

Answer 14

unrestrained revelry; orgy

Question 15

touchstone

Answer 15

a test or criterion for the qualities of a thing

Question 16

traumatic

Answer 16

adapted to the cure of wounds.

psychologically painful

Question 17

vitiate

Answer 17

to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil.

to impair or weaken the effectiveness of.

to debase; corrupt; pervert.

to make legally defective or invalid; invalidate

Question 18

waggish

Answer 18

roguish in merriment and good humor; jocular

Question 19

aficionado

Answer 19

an ardent devotee; fan, enthusiast

Question 20

browbeat

Answer 20

to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully

Question 21

commensurate

Answer 21

having the same measure; of equal extent or duration.

corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree

proportionate; adequate.

Question 22

diaphanous

Answer 22

very sheer and light; almost completely transparent or translucent

Question 23

emolument

Answer 23

profit, salary, or fees from office or employment; compensation for services

Question 24

foray

Answer 24

a quick raid, usually for the purpose of taking plunder.

a quick, sudden attack.

an initial venture.

Question 25

genre

Answer 25

a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like.

Question 26

homily

Answer 26

a sermon, usually on a Biblical topic and usually of a nondoctrinal nature.

an admonitory or moralizing discourse.

an inspirational saying or cliché

Question 27

immure

Answer 27

to enclose within walls.

to shut in; seclude or confine.

to imprison.

Question 28

insouciant

Answer 28

free from concern, worry, or anxiety; carefree; nonchalant.

Question 29

matrix

Answer 29

something that constitutes the place or point from which something else originates, takes form, or develops.

Question 30

obsequies (obsequy)

Answer 30

a funeral rite or ceremony

Question 31

panache

Answer 31

a grand or flamboyant manner; verve; style; flair

an ornamental plume of feathers, tassels, or the like, especially one worn on a helmet or cap.

Question 32

persona

Answer 32

personae, the characters in a play, novel, etc.

a person’s perceived or evident personality, as that of a well-known official, actor, or celebrity; personal image; public role.

Question 33

philippic

Answer 33

any speech or discourse of bitter denunciation

Question 34

prurient

Answer 34

having, inclined to have, characterized by or causing lascivious or lustful thoughts, desires, restless longing.

Question 35

sacrosanct

Answer 35

extremely sacred or inviolable.

not to be entered or trespassed upon.

above or beyond criticism, change, or interference.

Question 36

systemic

Answer 36

(of a pesticide) absorbed and circulated by a plant or other organism so as to be lethal to pests that feed on it.

Question 37

tendentious

Answer 37

having or showing a definite tendency, bias, or purpose

Question 38

vicissitude

Answer 38

a change or variation occurring in the course of something or of states/things.

successive, alternating, or changing phases or conditions, as of life or fortune; ups and downs.

regular change or succession of one state or thing to another.