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Question 1

To cause to make a quick involuntary movement or start, to alarm

Answer 1

to startle

Question 2

The student with the highest academic rank in a class who delivers the valedictory at graduation.

Answer 2

valedictorian

Question 3

An intuitive feeling or a premonition.

Answer 3

Hunch

Question 4

A rounded mass or protuberance, such as the fleshy structure on the back of a camel or of some cattle.

Answer 4

Hump (also as a verb)

Question 5

Friend of a long time

Answer 5

Crony

Question 6

Marked by betrayal of fidelity, confidence, or trust; perfidious.

Answer 6

Treacherous

Question 7

In a deceptive or deceiving manner.

Answer 7

Deceptively

Question 8

Exhibiting or feeling great or offensive satisfaction with oneself or with one’s situation.

Answer 8

Smug

Question 9

To amaze; astonish.

Answer 9

Stupify

Question 10

causing great physical or mental suffering.

Answer 10

Cut wrenching

Question 11

Lacking in importance or worth.

Answer 11

Paltry

Question 12

A person regarded as slovenly, crude, or obnoxious.

Answer 12

Slob

Question 13

Wet and dirty; slushy.

Answer 13

Slashy

Question 14

Showing resolution and fortitude; plucky.

Answer 14

Gritty

Question 15

Menacing; threatening.

Answer 15

Ominous

Question 16

The excrement of animals.

Answer 16

Dung

Question 17

A cheerful or lively manner of speaking, in which the pitch of the voice varies pleasantly.

Answer 17

Lilt

Question 18

Sullenly melancholy; gloomy.

Answer 18

Morose

Question 19

Showing a brooding ill humor or silent resentment; morose or sulky.

Answer 19

Sullenly

Question 20

To be deep in thought; meditate.

Answer 20

To be brooding

Question 21

A priest or parish of the church of England.

Answer 21

Vicar

Question 22

A tenth of what you receive to be used as a payment.

Answer 22

Tithes

Question 23

A fixed and regular payment, such as a salary for services rendered or an allowance.

Answer 23

Stipend

Question 24

Recklessness

Answer 24

Temerity