Hit Parade 2

Question 1

Chary

Answer 1

Wary, cautious, sparing

Question 2

Cogent

Answer 2

Appealing forcibly to the mind or reason

Question 3

Complaisance

Answer 3

The willingness to comply with the wishes of others

Question 4

Contrite

Answer 4

Regretful, penitent, seeking forgiveness

Question 5

Demur

Answer 5

To question or oppose

Question 6

Disinterested

Answer 6

Free of bias or self interest, impartial

Question 7

Dogmatic

Answer 7

Expressing a rigid opinion based on unproved or improbable principles

Question 8

Emollient

Answer 8

Soothing, especially to the skin, making less harsh, mollifying, an agent that softens or smoothes the skin

Question 9

Empirical

Answer 9

Based on observation or experiment

Question 10

Harangue

Answer 10

To deliver a pompous speech or tirade, a long, pompous speech

Question 11

Heretical

Answer 11

Violating accepted dogma or convention

Question 12

Impecunious

Answer 12

Lacking funds, without money

Question 13

Incipient

Answer 13

Beginning to come into being or to become apparent

Question 14

Innocuous

Answer 14

Harmless, causing no damage

Question 15

Intransigent

Answer 15

Refusing to compromise

Question 16

Inveigle

Answer 16

To obtain by deception or flattery

Question 17

Penurious

Answer 17

Penny pinching, excessively thrifty, ungenerous

Question 18

Putrefy

Answer 18

To rot, decay and give off a foul odor

Question 19

Quaff

Answer 19

To drink deeply

Question 20

Quiescence

Answer 20

Stillness, motionless, quality of being at rest

Question 21

Redoubtable

Answer 21

Awe inspiring, worthy of honor

Question 22

Sanction

Answer 22

Authoritative permission or approval, a penalty intended to enforce compliance, to give permission or authority to

Question 23

Torpid

Answer 23

Lethargic, sluggish, dormant

Question 24

Viscous

Answer 24

Thick, sticky