January 5

Question 1

Clairvoyant

Answer 1

To see clearly the future…

Question 2

Peruse

Answer 2

Read very very carefully

Question 3

Confound

Answer 3

Confused

Question 4

Absolve

Answer 4

To set or declare someone free from blame.

Question 5

Assail

Answer 5

To attack.
Synonym: Assault,

Question 6

Traverse

Answer 6

Go across or through.

Question 7

Enigmatic

Answer 7

Puzzling. Not understood.

Question 8

Catholic

Answer 8

Broad and comprehensive.

Question 9

Aerie

Answer 9

Elevated. Secluded dwelling.

Question 10

Hutch

Answer 10

Place where animals live.

Question 11

Propagate

Answer 11

To spread. To bread or start growing more of.

Question 12

Jejune

Answer 12

Doll, boring, overly simplified.

Question 13

Invigorating

Answer 13

Full of energy.

Question 14

Trenchant

Answer 14

Sharp, forceful way of speaking.

Question 15

Slipshod

Answer 15

Careless. No organisation to it.

Question 16

Flounder

Answer 16

To flip flop and struggle.

Ex. Company X is floundering.

Question 17

Slipshod

Answer 17

Careless. No organisation to it.

Question 18

Discrete

Answer 18

To put into two separate categories.

Discreet - careful and circumspect in one’s speech or actions. (Careful, circumspect, cautious).

Question 19

Equivocal

Answer 19

To be vague. Not to be clear.
Equivocal study. We do not know what the study says.

Question 20

Gauche
Goush

Answer 20

Socially awkward

Question 21

Remiss

Answer 21

To not be doing something that is your duty.

Question 22

Reproof

Answer 22

Noun form of reprove (criticise)

Question 23

Reproach

Answer 23

Reprove = reproach = criticise

Question 24

Remand

Answer 24

Sending someone back who has done something wrong.

Question 25

Reprobate

Answer 25

Someone who is unprincipled. Unethical person.

Question 26

Ramshackle

Answer 26

Dilapidated

Question 27

Spendthrift

Answer 27

Someone who wasts money.

Question 28

Aboveboard

Answer 28

Honest. Totally open and transparent.

Question 29

Lackluster

Answer 29

Lack shine and sparkle.

Question 30

Watershed

Answer 30

Watershed moment=a critical turning point

Question 31

Gainsay

Answer 31

To dispute something/deny something

Question 32

Impertinent

Answer 32

Adj. Someone who is keeps bugging you about something. Not showing proper respect. Rude.

Question 33

Reprove

Answer 33

To criticise sharply.

Question 34

Ineluctable

Answer 34

Unavoidable

Question 35

Numinous

Answer 35

Spiritual. Deep transcendental spiritual experience.

Question 36

Vitiate

Answer 36

To impart or negatively affect the quality if something.

Question 37

Exiguos

Answer 37

Scant or Meger. Not many of something.

Question 38

Percipient

Answer 38

Perspective, careful observer.

Question 39

Captious

Answer 39

Of person … tending to finding fault with something or give petty objections.

Question 40

Diatribe

Answer 40

A long and extended rant (a crazy person in the middle of the street screaming about Politics).

Question 41

Nugatory

Answer 41

Worthless and unimportant.

Question 42

Untoward

Answer 42

Inconvenience. Untoward occurrence.

Question 43

Senescent v sententious

Answer 43

Senescent - old. Process of aging. Sententious - someone who likes to speak in maxims in motorising or pompous way.

Question 44

Martinet

Answer 44

Strict disciplinarian. Someone who is very strict.

Question 45

Desultory

Answer 45

Lacking a focus or structure.

Question 46

Iniquity

Answer 46

Evil.

Question 47

Impervious

Answer 47

Something cannot be pass through. I am impervious to pain.