Group 11 & 12

Question 1

Abhor

Answer 1

Regard with disgust and hatred

Question 2

Boisterous

Answer 2

Noisy, energetic and cheerful

Question 3

Chivalrous

Answer 3

Gallant and courteous especially towards woman

Question 4

Churlish

Answer 4

Rude in mean spirited and surly way

Question 5

Complacent

Answer 5

Showing uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one’s achievement

Question 6

Cumbersome

Answer 6

Heavy or large and therefore, difficult to carry or use, slow and complicated

Question 7

Debilitating

Answer 7

Make someone weak and infirm

Question 8

Droll

Answer 8

Curious or unusual in a way that provokes dry amusement

Question 9

Eccentric

Answer 9

Unconventional and slightly strange

Question 10

Fractious

Answer 10

Irritable and quarrelsome, difficult to control

Question 11

Limpid

Answer 11

Completely clear and transparent, melodious or accessible

Question 12

Mawkish

Answer 12

Sentimental in exaggerated or false way

Question 13

Obeisance

Answer 13

Deferential respect

Question 14

Ostentatious

Answer 14

Design to impress

Question 15

Panacea

Answer 15

A remedy or solution to all difficulties or diseases

Question 16

Perfunctory

Answer 16

Carried out without real interest, desultory

Question 17

Perilous

Answer 17

Full of danger or risk

Question 18

Pervasive

Answer 18

Spread widely throughout an area or group of people

Question 19

Preclude

Answer 19

Prevent from happening, make impossible

Question 20

Predilection

Answer 20

A preference or special liking for something

Question 21

Rapacious

Answer 21

Aggressively greedy

Question 22

Relish

Answer 22

Great enjoyment

Question 23

Satire

Answer 23

Use of humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity

Question 24

Sham

Answer 24

A person who pretends to be something or someone they are not

Question 25

Sluggish

Answer 25

Slow moving, lacking alertness or energy

Question 26

Spartan

Answer 26

Austerity or lack of comfort or luxury

Question 27

Truculent

Answer 27

Eager to argue, aggressively defiant

Question 28

Clandestine

Answer 28

Kept secret or done secretively

Question 29

Acrimonious

Answer 29

Angry and bitter

Question 30

Belligerent

Answer 30

hostile and aggressive

Question 31

Beneficient

Answer 31

Generous and doing good

Question 32

Canny

Answer 32

Showing or having shrewdness or good judgements especially in matter of money or business

Question 33

Cavalier

Answer 33

Lack of concern

Question 34

Distressed

Answer 34

Suffering from extreme anxiety, sorrow or pain

Question 35

Dwindling

Answer 35

Gradually diminishing in size, strength or amount

Question 36

Eclipse

Answer 36

Deprive something of power or significance

Question 37

Exacerbate

Answer 37

Make problems worse

Question 38

Exasperated

Answer 38

Intensely frustrated or irritated

Question 39

Fungible

Answer 39

Mutually interchangeable

Question 40

Hackneyed

Answer 40

Having been overused, unoriginal and trite

Question 41

Incongrous

Answer 41

Not in harmony or keeping with surroundings

Question 42

Laconic

Answer 42

Using very few words

Question 43

Lucrative

Answer 43

Providing a great deal or profit

Question 44

Magisterial

Answer 44

Domineering, dictorial

Question 45

Onerous

Answer 45

Involving great deal of efforts, trouble or burdensome

Question 46

Opprobrium

Answer 46

Harsh criticism or censure

Question 47

Parcimonious

Answer 47

Very unwilling to spend money or use resources

Question 48

Provocative

Answer 48

Causing anger or any other strong reaction, especially deliberately, annoying

Question 49

Renounce

Answer 49

Formally declare one's abandonment

Question 50

Tempestuous

Answer 50

Characterized by strong or conflicting emotions

Question 51

Tenable

Answer 51

Defensible

Question 52

Transgression

Answer 52

Act that goes against the law

Question 53

Urbane

Answer 53

Courteous and refined in manner

Question 54

Verisimilitude

Answer 54

The appearance of being true or real

Question 55

Vitiate

Answer 55

Spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of something