Final

Question 1

Aggrandizement

Answer 1

an increase in rank or wealth; growth in power.

Question 2

Arduous

Answer 2

hard to do; strenuous.

Question 3

Copious

Answer 3

abundant.

Question 4

Equivocate

Answer 4

to use double meanings in order to mislead; to be shifty; to quibble.

Question 5

Extol

Answer 5

to praise highly.

Question 6

Indigent

Answer 6

poverty-stricken.

Question 7

Malicious

Answer 7

spiteful; intentionally mischievous or harmful. (the noun form “malice” means “active ill will” or spite.”)

Question 8

Parsimonius

Answer 8

too thrifty; stingy.

Question 9

Repugnant

Answer 9

disgusting; loathsome; objectionable; incompatible.

Question 10

Surmise

Answer 10

to imagine or infer on slight grounds.

Question 11

Viable

Answer 11

able to live or exist; practicable.

Question 12

Acquiesce

Answer 12

to accept the conclusions or arrangements of others; to accede; to give consent by keeping silent.

Question 13

Clemency

Answer 13

a mercy; mildness.

Question 14

Condone

Answer 14

to forgive or overlook.

Question 15

Fervor

Answer 15

intense emotion; great warmth of feeling.

Question 16

Incisive

Answer 16

deep; penetrating.

Question 17

Officious

Answer 17

meddling; giving unnecessary or unwanted advice or services.

Question 18

Profusion

Answer 18

abundance; a great or generous amount; extravagance.

Question 19

Recalcitrant

Answer 19

refusing to obey rules or follow orders; unmanageably resistant.

Question 20

Taciturn

Answer 20

habitually untalkative; laconic; uncommunicative.

Question 21

Vitriolic

Answer 21

extremely biting or caustic; sharp and bitter.

Question 22

Ameliorate

Answer 22

to make better or more tolerable; to improve.

Question 23

Capricious

Answer 23

changeable; fickle.

Question 24

Emulate

Answer 24

to try to equal or surpass.

Question 25

Enigma

Answer 25

a puzzle; a baffling situation.

Question 26

Incongruous

Answer 26

inappropriate; out of place.

Question 27

Relegate

Answer 27

to put in a less important position; to assign; to banish.

Question 28

Terse

Answer 28

using only a few words but clear and to the point; polished (generally has a negative connotation).

Question 29

Verbose

Answer 29

wordy; tedious.

Question 30

Caustic

Answer 30

stinging; biting.

Question 31

Deprecate

Answer 31

to express strong disapproval of.

Question 32

Expunge

Answer 32

to erase; to remove completely.

Question 33

Immutable

Answer 33

never changing.

Question 34

Repudiate

Answer 34

to reject; to refuse to recognize, acknowledge or pay; to divorce or discard.

Question 35

Squalid

Answer 35

dirty or wretched in appearance; morally repulsive; sordid.

Question 36

Sycophant

Answer 36

one who tries to win favor or advance himself by flattering persons of influence; a servile self-seeker.