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Question 1

Galore.

As much as you like. Until your heart is content.

AD LIBITUM: At your leisure.

Answer 1

A GOGO

Question 2

Inductive reasoning:
Inferring the cause from the observed effect.

Reasoning the cause from the effect.

EMPIRICAL (observed, experienced) based.

Answer 2

A POSTERIORI

Question 3

Deductive reasoning:
Inferring an effect from a theory or hypothesis.

Reasoning the effect from a cause through logic. Cause & effect.

THEORETICAL (conclusions from ‘it-follows’ logic) based.

Answer 3

A PRIORI

Question 4

At one’s leisure.

Not indispensable or obligatory.

Answer 4

AD LIBITUM

Question 5

“For the case”

Appointed to represent someone incapable of representing themselves (incapacitated, unavailable, incompetent)

Answer 5

AD LITEM

Question 6

Self confidence or assurance in light of a demanding situation.

Poise, composed

OR

Perpendicular, upright, vertically situated

Answer 6

APLOMB

Question 7

Made for a particular customer or usage.

Answer 7

BESPOKE

Question 8

Unimpressed or indifferent due to overexposure.

Answer 8

BLASÉ

Question 9

Characteristically middle class with its perceived materialistic values and conventional attitudes.

Answer 9

BOURGEOIS (bourgeoisie)

Question 10

Seize the day/night.

Answer 10

CARPE DIEM/NOCTEM

Question 11

Act of overthrowing.

OR

A successful stroke or move.

Answer 11

COUP

Question 12

Knockout blow.

OR

The event that serves as the culmination of a deteriorating situation.

Answer 12

COUP DE GRACE

Question 13

Seizure of power.

Answer 13

COUP D’ETAT

Question 14

Easing of hostilities.

Armistice, truce, ceasefire, cessation of hostilities.

Answer 14

DETENTE

Question 15

“God from a machine”

Unexpected power saves a hopeless situation.

Often a contrived plot device.

Answer 15

DEUS EX MACHINA

Question 16

Sprightliness of spirit, with a lively intelligence.

Answer 16

ESPRIT

Question 17

Feeling of pride, fellowship, and loyalty shared by members of a group.

Answer 17

ESPRIT DE CORPS

Question 18

“Economic man”

Views humans as self-interested agents who seek utility-maximizing outcomes.

Answer 18

HOMO ECONOMICUS

Question 19

Extremely confused, complicated, or embarrassing situation.

Answer 19

IMBROGLIO

Question 20

Mark of approval or endorsement.

HISTORICALLY:

License by the Roman Catholic Church to print an ecclesiastical book.

Answer 20

IMPRIMATUR

Question 21

Among other things.

Answer 21

INTER ALIA

Question 22

By that fact or act.

The direct consequence of the specific action in question.

Answer 22

IPSO FACTO

Question 23

The occurrence of an accident itself implies negligence.

Answer 23

RES IPSA LOQUITUR

Question 24

Quality that cannot be adequately expressed in words.

An ineffable trait.

Answer 24

JE NE SAIS QUOI

Question 25

Act in an excessively subservient manner. Fawning, cowering, prostrating EFFUSIVELY.

Answer 25

KOWTOW

Question 26

Pen name, alias, or pseudonym.

Answer 26

NON DE PLUME

Question 27

Argument having conclusions not supported by its premises. It does not logically follow...

Answer 27

NON SEQUITUR

Question 28

Unusual and startling. Offbeat, unorthodox, unconventional, bizarre Out-of-bounds to the ordinary.

Answer 28

OUTRE’

Question 29

For this occasion only.

Answer 29

PRO HAC VICE

Question 30

As needed. OR For a particular purpose.

Answer 30

AD HOC

Question 31

Concerning workers or the working class regarded collectively.

Answer 31

PROLETARIAN (proletariat)

Question 32

Reason for existence; the justification.

Answer 32

RAISON D’ETRE

Question 33

Disproof of a proposition by showing the absurdity to which it leads when carried to its logical conclusion.

Answer 33

REDUCTIO AD ABSURDAM

Question 34

Brought back. Revived or resurrected into popularity. Made fashionable once again.

Answer 34

REDUX

Question 35

Person that tells anecdotes in a skillful and amusing way.

Answer 35

RACONTEUR

Question 36

In a class alone (one of a kind). Unique, peculiar, singular. A SUI GENERIS authority - one that must be confided to its own facts, and is not appropriate for further extrapolation.

Answer 36

SUI GENERIS

Question 37

An over-abundance of something. A superabundance, plethora, or oversupply. Opposite of a DEARTH

Answer 37

SURFEIT

Question 38

The lowest point in fortunes of a person or organization. The anticlimax or lowest depths. Opposite of ZENITH, VERTEX, PINNACLE or SUMMIT.

Answer 38

NADIR

Question 39

A good or praiseworthy deed.

Answer 39

MITZVAH

Question 40

The wise word was stated. No need to say another word,

Answer 40

VERBUM SAP