Group 7

Question 1

Pervasiveness

Answer 1

Act of spreading widely

Question 2

Parsimony

Answer 2

Extreme unwillingness to spend money

Question 3

Stinginess

Answer 3

Unwilling to spend money

Question 4

Inviolable

Answer 4

never to be broken, infringed, or dishonored

Question 5

Unconscionable

Answer 5

Unreasonable

Question 6

Sanctioned

Answer 6

1) Give official permission or approval for (an action).
2) Impose a penalty on.

Question 7

Ebb

Answer 7

A flowing backward or away; decline; decay; a gradual falling off or diminution: as, the ebb of prosperity; crime is on the ebb.

Question 8

Ameliorate

Answer 8

make something bad better

Question 9

Protracted

Answer 9

Lengthy

Question 10

Unseemly

Answer 10

not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society

Question 11

Sordid

Answer 11

involving ignoble actions and motives; arousing moral distaste and contempt; foul and run-down and repulsive

Question 12

Ignoble

Answer 12

Not honorable in character or purpose.

Question 13

Reticent

Answer 13

Quiet, reserved

Question 14

Adulation

Answer 14

High Praise, obsequious flattery

Question 15

Redoubled

Answer 15

make or become much greater, more intense, or more numerous.

Question 16

précis

Answer 16

Summary (e.g., Synopsis)

Question 17

Hedonist

Answer 17

a person who believes that the pursuit of pleasure is the most important thing in life; a pleasure-seeker.

Question 18

Unflappable

Answer 18

having or showing calmness in a crisis

Question 19

Tepid

Answer 19

Little enthusiasm, or warm

Question 20

Scrapped

Answer 20

Disregard or remove

Question 21

Ailing

Answer 21

Poor Health

Question 22

Mired

Answer 22

Entangled or hindered or embroil

Question 23

Fashioned

Answer 23

Shaped or made