Extra Words

Question 1

Cursory

Answer 1

hasty and therefore not thorough or detailed

Question 2

Curtail

Answer 2

reduce in extent or quantity; impose a restriction on.

Question 3

Impetuous

Answer 3

acting or done quickly and without thought or care.

Question 4

Abet

Answer 4

to encourage, support, or countenance by aid or approval, usually in wrongdoing

Question 5

Munificent

Answer 5

very generous.

Question 6

Mainstay

Answer 6

a person or thing that acts as a chief support or part:

Question 7

Bilious

Answer 7

peevish; irritable; cranky. extremely unpleasant or distasteful

Question 8

Dudgeon

Answer 8

a feeling of offense or resentment; anger

Question 9

Irascible

Answer 9

easily provoked to anger; very irritable. characterized or produced by anger

Question 10

Pettish

Answer 10

childishly bad-tempered and petulant

Question 11

Petulant

Answer 11

moved to or showing sudden, impatient irritation, especially over some trifling annoyance

Question 12

Pique

Answer 12

to affect with sharp irritation and resentment, especially by some wound to pride

Question 13

Umbrage

Answer 13

offense; annoyance; displeasure

Question 14

Proselyte

Answer 14

a person who has changed from one opinion, religious belief, sect, or the like, to another; new convert.

Question 15

Acrimonious

Answer 15

angry and bitter.

Question 16

Mordacious

Answer 16

denoting or using biting sarcasm or invective language

Question 17

Licentious

Answer 17

promiscuous and unprincipled in sexual matters.

Question 18

Facsimile

Answer 18

an exact copy, especially of written or printed material.

Question 19

Quintessence

Answer 19

the most perfect or typical example of a quality or class

Question 20

Vicarious

Answer 20

performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another

Question 21

Lambaste

Answer 21

to beat or whip severely. to reprimand or berate harshly; censure; excoriate

Question 22

Reprehend

Answer 22

find fault with; rebuke; censure; blame.

Question 23

Defunct

Answer 23

no longer in existence; dead; extinct

Question 24

Obsequy

Answer 24

a funeral rite or ceremony

Question 25

Abnegate

Answer 25

to refuse or deny oneself (some rights, conveniences, etc.); reject; renounce.

Question 26

Inscrutable

Answer 26

incapable of being investigated, analyzed, understood, or scrutinized; impenetrable, unfathomable

Question 27

Recondite

Answer 27

dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter: beyond ordinary knowledge or understanding; esoteric

Question 28

Beholden

Answer 28

obligated; indebted

Question 29

Inept

Answer 29

without skill or aptitude for a particular task or assignment; maladroit:

Question 30

Impute

Answer 30

to attribute or ascribe

Question 31

Construe

Answer 31

to give the meaning or intention of; explain; interpret.

Question 32

Collude

Answer 32

to act together through a secret understanding, especially with evil or harmful intent

Question 33

Jettison

Answer 33

to cast (goods) overboard in order to lighten a vessel. To throw off (something) as an obstacle or burden; discard.

Question 34

Recrudescence

Answer 34

breaking out afresh or into renewed activity; revival or reappearance in active existence

Question 35

Surly

Answer 35

churlishly rude or bad-tempered; unfriendly or hostile; menacingly irritable

Question 36

Sycophant

Answer 36

a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite

Question 37

Extant

Answer 37

Existing

Question 38

Recursive

Answer 38

Returning to the same points repeatedly

Question 39

Bucolic

Answer 39

relating to, or suggesting an idyllic rural life, idylic

Question 40

Debacle

Answer 40

a complete collapse or failure.