Group 16

Question 1

Antedate

Answer 1

Go back in time

Question 2

Bridle

Answer 2

Show one’s anger

Mnemonic- A bride show’s anger

Question 3

Crestfallen

Answer 3

Sad and disappointed

Mnemonic- after falling from a mountain crest, you are sad

Question 4

Vociferous

Answer 4

Expressed by intense opinions,
Loud and cheerful

Mnemonic- Voice+ furious

Question 5

Visionary

Answer 5

Planning the future with imagination
Vision

Question 6

Synoptic

Answer 6

Summary of the general view as a whole

Sounds like synopsis

Question 7

Superfluous

Answer 7

More than needed or required, unnecessary

Mnemonic- sounds like surplus

Question 8

Skittish

Answer 8

(for animal)- easily scared
(for person)- unpredictable

Question 9

Ruminate

Answer 9

Think deeply about something

Mnemonic- rum peeke think about something deeply

Question 10

Relinquish

Answer 10

Give up

Question 11

Recondite

Answer 11

Little known, Abstruse, Obscure

Mnemonic- Re+Conduct—> professor reconducted the lectures since the students couldn’t understand properly

Question 12

Profligate

Answer 12

Recklessly extravagant or
Wasteful in the use of resources

Mnemonic- spend profusely like bill gates

Question 13

Lionize

Answer 13

Object of great importance, great public attention

Mnemonic- lion is v important in animal kingdom

Question 14

Inscrutable

Answer 14

Impossible to understand

Mnemonic- screw table impossible

Question 15

Curtain

Answer 15

A disastrous outcome

Question 16

Elucidate

Answer 16

Make something clear

Lucid

Question 17

Feckless

Answer 17

Irresponsible

Reckless

Question 18

Fester

Answer 18

Become worse

Mnemonic- fest becomes fester each year

Question 19

Iconoclastic

Answer 19

Criticizing beliefs

Mnemonic- Idol clash, if you crash idols

Question 20

Immure

Answer 20

Confine within the walls

Mnemonic- sounds like i am yours, please enclose me within walls of your heart

Question 21

Inhibit

Answer 21

Hinder, Prevent something from happening

Synonyms- impede, hamper