Fab Vocab 326-350

Question 1

in the past; at a former time

Answer 1

Erstwhile

Question 2

a accomplished and presumably irreversible deed or act

Answer 2

Fait accompli

Question 3

cognizance; view; especially, reach of sight or knowledge

Answer 3

Ken

Question 4

to complain habitually

Answer 4

Kvetch

Question 5

unavailing; useless

Answer 5

Bootless

Question 6

a name, title, or designation

Answer 6

Appellation

Question 7

a slight offense; a petty fault

Answer 7

Peccadilo

Question 8

a person who wastes; a loafer

Answer 8

Wastrel

Question 9

nonsense; mumbo-jumbo

Answer 9

Flummery

Question 10

beginning to exist or grow

Answer 10

Nascent

Question 11

of or pertaining to alms, charity, or charitable donations; charitable

Answer 11

Eleemosynary

Question 12

light, bantering talk or writing; a frivolous or flippant style of treating a subject

Answer 12

Persiflage

Question 13

the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era

Answer 13

Zeitgeist

Question 14

capable of laughing; disposed to laugh; associated with laughter

Answer 14

Risible

Question 15

of, relating to, or given to walking; moving or traveling from place to place

Answer 15

Peripatetic

Question 16

having an insipid, often unpleasant, taste; sickly sentimental

Answer 16

Mawkish

Question 17

to affirm the existence of; to propose as an explanation

Answer 17

Posit

Question 18

an overbearing or nagging women

Answer 18

Termagant

Question 19

edible

Answer 19

Comestible

Question 20

to talk long and idly; empty or meaningless talk

Answer 20

Prate

Question 21

twilight

Answer 21

Crepuscule

Question 22

to extinguish the guilt incured by; to make amends for

Answer 22

Expiate

Question 23

capable of or characterized by perception

Answer 23

Percipient

Question 24

to express strong disapproval of; condemnation with the intent to discredit

Answer 24

Decry

Question 25

to be strong or powerful

Answer 25

Puissant