Hit Parade 3

Question 1

Aver

Answer 1

To state as a fact, to declare or assert

Question 2

Diatribe

Answer 2

A harsh denunciation

Question 3

Dissemble

Answer 3

To disguise or conceal, to mislead

Question 4

Endemic

Answer 4

Characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people

Question 5

Evanescent

Answer 5

Tending to disappear like vapor, vanishing

Question 6

Fortuitous

Answer 6

Happening by accident or chance

Question 7

Hegemony

Answer 7

The consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others

Question 8

Iconoclast

Answer 8

One who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions

Question 9

Implacable

Answer 9

Not capable of being appeased or significantly changed

Question 10

Impunity

Answer 10

Immunity from punishment or penalty

Question 11

Inchoate

Answer 11

In an initial stage, not fully formed

Question 12

Insipid

Answer 12

Without taste or flavor, lacking in spirit, bland

Question 13

Mendacity

Answer 13

The condition of being untruthful, dishonesty

Question 14

Obsequious

Answer 14

Exhibiting a fawning attentiveness

Question 15

Occlude

Answer 15

To obstruct or block

Question 16

Opprobrium

Answer 16

Disgrace, contempt, scorn

Question 17

Pedantic

Answer 17

Only concerned with the trivial details of learning or education, show-offish about one’s knowledge

Question 18

Penury

Answer 18

Poverty, destitution

Question 19

Pith

Answer 19

The essential or central part

Question 20

Polemical

Answer 20

Controversial, argumentative

Question 21

Prodigal

Answer 21

Recklessly wasteful, extravagant, profuse, lavish

Question 22

Proliferate

Answer 22

To grow or increase swiftly and abundantly

Question 23

Querulous

Answer 23

Prone to complaining or grumbling, peevish

Question 24

Rancorous

Answer 24

Characterized by bitter, long lasting resentment

Question 25

Recalcitrant

Answer 25

Obstinately defiant or authority, difficult to manage

Question 26

Salubrious

Answer 26

Promoting health or well being

Question 27

Solvent (adj)

Answer 27

Able to meet financial obligations

Question 28

Specious

Answer 28

Seemingly true, but actually being fallacious, misleadingly attractive, plausible but false

Question 29

Spurious

Answer 29

Lacking authenticity or validity, false, counterfeit

Question 30

Surfeit

Answer 30

An over abundant supply, excess, to feed or supply to excess

Question 31

Tenuous

Answer 31

Having little substance or strength, flimsy, weak