extra words

Question 1

surmounted

Answer 1

overcome

Question 2

contrive

Answer 2

deliberately creating something, force

Question 3

ignominious

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deserving or causing public disgrace or shame; embarrassing; humiliating

Question 4

incineration

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destroy

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apocryphal

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fabricated truth

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histrionic

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melodramatic

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inscrutable

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impossible to understand and interpret

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ignoble

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not honourable in character or purpose

Question 9

prolocutor

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chairman or a spokesman

Question 10

figurehead

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head without real power/ sculpture

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duress

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force

Question 12

interloper

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interlude/ encroacher, should not be there

Question 13

forlorn

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sad, miserable

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galvanise

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get pushed or stirred to take an action

Question 15

pestilential

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relating to or tending to cause infectious diseases, communicable (pest)

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sojourner

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who lives temporarily at a place

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desultory

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lacking a plan, enthusiasm

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panegyric

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eulogy, paean

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fecund

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highly fertile so can produce offsprings

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irrefragable

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indisputable

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incipient

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inchoate, rudimentary

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sedentary

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inactive

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cognoscenti

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people who are especially well informed about a particular subject, expert in their subject area

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uninitiated

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without special knowledge or experience

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seminal

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influential

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canonical

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recognised

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tottering

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unstable

Question 28

spurn

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reject with disdain

Question 29

discountenance

Answer 29

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refuse to approve of.

Question 30

detritus

Answer 30

waste, debris