Hit Parade 4

Question 1

Aggrandize

Answer 1

To increase in intensity, power, influence, or prestige

Question 2

Amenable

Answer 2

Agreeable, responsive to suggestion

Question 3

Astringent

Answer 3

Having a tightening effect on living tissue, harsh, severe, something with a tightening effect on tissue

Question 4

Credulous

Answer 4

Tending to believe too readily, gullible

Question 5

Desiccate

Answer 5

To dry out or dehydrate, to make dry or dull

Question 6

Dilettante

Answer 6

One with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge

Question 7

Flout

Answer 7

To show contempt for, as in a rule or convention

Question 8

Glib

Answer 8

Marked by ease or informality, nonchalant, lacking in depth, superficial

Question 9

Inimical

Answer 9

Damaging, harmful, injurious

Question 10

Intractable

Answer 10

Not easily managed or directed, stubborn, obstinate

Question 11

Obfuscate

Answer 11

To deliberately obscure, to make confusing

Question 12

Phlegmatic

Answer 12

Calm, sluggish, unemotional

Question 13

Probity

Answer 13

Adherence to highest principles, complete and confirmed integrity, uprightness

Question 14

Profligate (adj)

Answer 14

Excessively wasteful, recklessly extravagant

Question 15

Prosaic

Answer 15

Dull, lacking in spirit or imagination

Question 16

Quixotic

Answer 16

Foolishly impractical, marked by lofty romantic ideals

Question 17

Rarefy

Answer 17

To make or become thin, less dense, to refine

Question 18

Recondite

Answer 18

Hidden, concealed, difficult to understand, obscure

Question 19

Refulgent

Answer 19

Radiant, shiny, brilliant

Question 20

Renege

Answer 20

To fail to honor a commitment, to go back on a promise

Question 21

Sedulous

Answer 21

Diligent, persistent, hardworking

Question 22

Spendthrift

Answer 22

One who spends money wastefully

Question 23

Trenchant

Answer 23

Sharply perceptive, keen, penetrating

Question 24

Untenable

Answer 24

Indefensible, not viable, uninhabitable

Question 25

Variegated

Answer 25

Multicolored, characterized by a variety of patches of different color

Question 26

Vituperate

Answer 26

To use harsh condemnatory language, to abuse or censure severely or abusively, to berate