Jan. 17

Question 1

Avarice

Answer 1

extreme greed for wealth or material gain.

Question 2

Chicanery

Answer 2

the use of trickery to achieve a political, financial, or legal purpose.

Question 3

Demagogue

Answer 3

a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument.

Question 4

Exiguous

Answer 4

very small in size or amount.

Question 5

Lexicon

Answer 5

the vocabulary of a person, language, or branch of knowledge.

Question 6

Obviate

Answer 6

remove (a need or difficulty).

Question 7

Plenary

Answer 7

unqualified; absolute. Complete in all respects; unlimited or full

Question 8

Sojourn

Answer 8

a temporary stay.

Question 9

Tautological

Answer 9

pleonastic: repetition of same sense in different words; “a true fact' and a free gift’ are pleonastic expressions”; “the phrase `a beginner who has just started’ is tautological”; “at the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition”- J.B.Conant