Hit Parade 1

Question 1

Alacrity

Answer 1

Eager and enthusiastic willingness

Question 2

Approbation

Answer 2

An expression of approval or praise

Question 3

Axiomatic

Answer 3

Taken as given, possessing self evident truth

Question 4

Canonical

Answer 4

Following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards

Question 5

Disabuse

Answer 5

To undeceive, to set right

Question 6

Disparate

Answer 6

Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar

Question 7

Effrontery

Answer 7

Extreme boldness, presumptuousness

Question 8

Enervate

Answer 8

To weaken, to reduce in vitality

Question 9

Equivocate

Answer 9

To use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent

Question 10

Exculpate

Answer 10

Exonerate, free from blame

Question 11

Exigent

Answer 11

Urgent, pressing, requiring immediate action or attention

Question 12

Extemporaneous

Answer 12

Improvised, done without preparation

Question 13

Fulminate

Answer 13

To loudly attack or denounce

Question 14

Ingenuous

Answer 14

Artless, frank and candid, lacking in sophistication

Question 15

Inured

Answer 15

Accustomed to accepting something undesirable

Question 16

Irascible

Answer 16

Easily angered, prone to temperamental outbursts

Question 17

Martial

Answer 17

Associated with war and the armed forces

Question 18

Nascent

Answer 18

Coming into being, in early developmental stages

Question 19

Neologism

Answer 19

A new world, expression, or usage. The creation or use of new words or senses

Question 20

Obviate

Answer 20

To anticipate and make unnecessary

Question 21

Onerous

Answer 21

Troubling, burdensome

Question 22

Paean

Answer 22

A song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving

Question 23

Perennial

Answer 23

Recurrent through the year or many years, happening repeatedly

Question 24

Perfidy

Answer 24

Intentional breach of faith, treachery

Question 25

Perfunctory

Answer 25

Cursory, done without care or interest

Question 26

Perspicacious

Answer 26

Acutely perceptive, having keen discernment

Question 27

Precipitate (adj)

Answer 27

Acting with excessive haste or impulse

Question 28

Prescience

Answer 28

Foreknowledge of events

Question 29

Prevaricate

Answer 29

To deliberately avoid the truth, to mislead

Question 30

Relegate

Answer 30

To forcibly assign, especially to a lower place or position

Question 31

Solicitous

Answer 31

Concerned and attentive, eager

Question 32

Tortuous

Answer 32

Winding, twisting, excessively complicated

Question 33

Truculent

Answer 33

Fierce and cruel, eager to fight

Question 34

Virulent

Answer 34

Extremely harmful or poisonous, bitterly hostile or antagonistic