Kaplan #4

Question 1

Propitiate

Answer 1

to conciliate, to appease

Question 2

Propriety

Answer 2

correct behavior, obedience to rules and customs

Question 3

Prudence

Answer 3

wisdom, caution, or restraint

Question 4

Pungent

Answer 4

sharp and irritating to the senses

Question 5

Quiescent

Answer 5

motionless

Question 6

Rarefy

Answer 6

to make thinner or sparser

Question 7

Repudiate

Answer 7

to reject the validity of

Question 8

Reticent

Answer 8

silent, reserved

Question 9

Rhetoric

Answer 9

effective writing or speaking

Question 10

Satiate

Answer 10

to satisfy fully or overindulge

Question 11

Soporific

Answer 11

causing sleep or lethargy

Question 12

Specious

Answer 12

deceptively attractive, seemingly plausible but fallacious

Question 13

Stigma

Answer 13

a mark of shame or discredit

Question 14

Stolid

Answer 14

unemotional, lacking sensitivity

Question 15

Sublime

Answer 15

lofty or grand

Question 16

Tacit

Answer 16

done without using words, unspoken

Question 17

Taciturn

Answer 17

silent, not talkative

Question 18

Tirade

Answer 18

long, harsh speech or verbal attack

Question 19

Torpor

Answer 19

extreme mental and physical sluggishness

Question 20

Transitory

Answer 20

temporary, lasting a brief time

Question 21

Vacillate

Answer 21

to sway physically, to be indecisive

Question 22

Venerate

Answer 22

to respect deeply

Question 23

Veracity

Answer 23

filled with truth and accuracy

Question 24

Verbose

Answer 24

wordy

Question 25

Vex

Answer 25

to annoy

Question 26

Volatile

Answer 26

easily aroused or changeable, lively or explosive

Question 27

Waver

Answer 27

to fluctuate between choices

Question 28

Whimsical

Answer 28

acting in a fanciful or capricious manner, unpredictable

Question 29

Zeal

Answer 29

passion, excitement