Group C

Question 1

Tractable

Answer 1

Easily managed or controlled.

Question 2

Travesty

Answer 2

A false, absurd, or distorted representation.

Question 3

Trenchant

Answer 3

Sharp or incisive in expression or style.

Question 4

Truculent

Answer 4

Eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant.

Question 5

Tryst

Answer 5

A private, romantic rendezvous between lovers.

Question 6

Tumescence

Answer 6

The state of being swollen or engorged.

Question 7

Tumid

Answer 7

Swollen or inflated.

Question 8

Turbid

Answer 8

Cloudy, opaque, or thick with suspended matter.

Question 9

Turgid

Answer 9

Swollen and distended or congested.

Question 10

Turpid

Answer 10

Lethargic or sluggish.

Question 11

Tyro

Answer 11

A beginner or novice.

Question 12

Unfeigned

Answer 12

Genuine; sincere.

Question 13

Unmitigated

Answer 13

Absolute; unqualified.

Question 14

Untenable

Answer 14

Not able to be maintained or defended.

Question 15

Untoward

Answer 15

Unexpected and inappropriate or inconvenient.

Question 16

Urbane

Answer 16

Suave, courteous, and refined in manner.

Question 17

Vacuous

Answer 17

Having or showing a lack of thought or intelligence.

Question 18

Vagaries

Answer 18

An unexpected and inexplicable change in a situation or in someone’s behavior.

Question 19

Vaunt

Answer 19

To boast or brag about something.

Question 20

Venal

Answer 20

Showing or motivated by susceptibility to bribery.

Question 21

Verisimilar

Answer 21

Having the appearance of truth; probable.

Question 22

Verisimilitude

Answer 22

The appearance of being true or real.

Question 23

Veritable

Answer 23

Used as an intensifier, often to qualify a metaphor.

Question 24

Villify

Answer 24

To speak or write about in an abusively disparaging manner.

Question 25

Virulent

Answer 25

Extremely severe or harmful in its effects.

Question 26

Vitiate

Answer 26

To spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of.

Question 27

Vituperate

Answer 27

To blame or insult someone in strong or violent language.

Question 28

Volatile

Answer 28

Liable to change rapidly and unpredictably, especially for the worse.

Question 29

Voluble

Answer 29

Talking fluently, readily, or incessantly.

Question 30

Waft

Answer 30

To pass or cause to pass easily or gently through the air.

Question 31

Welter

Answer 31

A confused mass; a jumble.

Question 32

Wend

Answer 32

To go in a specified direction, typically slowly or by an indirect route.

Question 33

Whimsical

Answer 33

Playfully quaint or fanciful, especially in an appealing and amusing way.

Question 34

Whinge

Answer 34

To complain persistently and in a peevish or fretful manner.

Question 35

Winnow

Answer 35

To separate grain from chaff; to sift through to find what is valuable.

Question 36

Wry

Answer 36

Using or expressing dry, especially mocking, humor.

Question 37

Xenophobic

Answer 37

Having or showing a dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries.

Question 38

Zealous

Answer 38

Having or showing zeal; passionate.