Level 10

Question 1

Jejune

Answer 1

Dull. Insipid. Without interest or significance. Lacking knowledge. Juvenile. The grad student continued to make, seemingly, jejune remarks about life and art, to her audience of bored and increasingly annoyed undergraduate friends.

His paucity of enthusiasm, and absence of his usual sanguine expression, indicated his displeasure over having to spend yet another jejune weekend in deep lucubration.

Question 2

Paucity

Answer 2

Smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness. A country with a paucity of resources.

His paucity of enthusiasm, and absence of his usual sanguine expression, indicated his displeasure over having to spend yet another jejune weekend in deep lucubration.

Question 3

Minatory

Answer 3

Menacing; threatening. Abella’s bosses minatory emails, referencing her pregnancy leave, were yet more proof of a continued abuse of authority.

To be risible in good company, a non-minatory demeanor – so as to be approachable, and having a mind free of hebetude all make for a great weeknight deipnosophist.

Question 4

Putative

Answer 4

Commonly regarded as such; reputed; supposed

Make sure he doesn’t divagate from the accusation, you have apodictic evidence that their executive team had hebdomadal meetings trying to bury, the case of causing putative iatrogenic harm to 3 insured patients.

Question 5

Lucubration

Answer 5

Laborious work, study, thought, especially at night. Ex: Just before finals the graduate students were always mired in deep lucubration.

His paucity of enthusiasm, and absence of his usual sanguine expression, indicated his displeasure over having to spend yet another jejune weekend in deep lucubration.

Question 6

Aleatory

Answer 6

Unpredictable; of luck or chance; (in Law) depending on a contingent event: Ex: an aleatory contract; (in Music) employing the element of chance in the choice of tones, rhythms, dynamics, etc.

George Carlin’s brand of aleatory comedy was often a farrago of polite but pointed badinage and non-venial diatribe or ranting.

Question 7

Farrago

Answer 7

A confused mixture; hodgepodge; medley

George Carlin’s brand of aleatory comedy was often a farrago of polite but pointed badinage and non-venial diatribe or ranting.

Question 8

Cynosure

Answer 8

something that attracts attention by its brilliance, and can be used as a guide for direction, like the little dipper or Ursa Minor constellation.

Jane execrated, having lain her eyes on the fast scurrying twin hispid cotton rats, now undoubtedly the cynosure of the mortified guests.

Question 9

Badinage

Answer 9

banter, playful repartee (back and forth with jestful quick responses).

George Carlin’s brand of aleatory comedy was often a farrago of polite but pointed badinage and non-venial diatribe or ranting.

Question 10

Hieratic

Answer 10

Also hieratical of or relating to priests or priesthood; highly restrained or severe in emotional import; noting or pertaining to a form of ancient Egyptian writing consisting of abridged forms of hieroglyphics, used by the priests in their records.

The culture of the tribe was to ritually scarify the bodies of the performers with ceremonial hieratic styled shapes, and the dance would serve to lionize both their ancestors and their new king.

Question 11

Saturnine

Answer 11

Sluggish in temperament; gloomy; taciturn

Ryu was a man of longanimity, with a saturnine disposition, and a penchant for being a noctivagant, rarely resting in a place.

Question 12

Execrate

Answer 12

To detest, to curse, to declare something to be evil or detestable. Surely rape is execrated by modern civil society.

Jane execrated, having lain her eyes on the fast scurrying twin hispid cotton rats, now undoubtedly the cynosure of the mortified guests.

Question 13

Vitiate

Answer 13

To impair the quality of, spoil, make faulty. A mistake of fact in some circumstances could vitiate the contract. A mind vitiate by prejudice.

The contretemps episode in the diner, vitiated, no eviscerated the already frangible marriage between the mayor and his staff.

Question 14

Venial

Answer 14

Her brother arriving to the party having forgotten to buy a gift was a venial offence.

George Carlin’s brand of aleatory comedy was often a farrago of polite but pointed badinage and non-venial diatribe or ranting.

Question 15

Risible

Answer 15

Causing or capable of causing laughter; laughable; having a disposition or readiness to laugh. Ex: Diesel is an imposing screen presence even when growling risible dialog.

To be risible in good company, a non-minatory demeanor – so as to be approachable, and having a mind free of hebetude all make for a great weeknight deipnosophist.

Question 16

Lionize

Answer 16

To treat (a person) as a celebrity; to pursue celebrities; British: to visit or exhibit the objects of interest of (a place)

The culture of the tribe was to ritually scarify the bodies of the performers with ceremonial hieratic styled shapes, and the dance would serve to lionize both their ancestors and their new king.

Question 17

Contretemps

Answer 17

ill-timed or inopportune occurrence; an embarrassing mischance. Ex: His contretemps experience came from seeing his ex-wife at a speed dating meetup. The anxious and depressed poet viewed every act as a life-ending contretemps.

The contretemps episode in the diner, vitiated, no eviscerated the already frangible marriage between the mayor and his staff.

Question 18

Rodomontade

Answer 18

Vainglorious boasting or bragging; pretentious. Ex: Students from those prep schools are notorious for their endless rodomontade. He viewed this particular fine arts crowd as rodomontade and elitist.

Pettifogger Jonathan, known for his fulminating temper and rodomontade rambles, preoccupied his free time, not with books of law, but with mystical and heliolatry literature.

Question 19

Sanguine

Answer 19

Cheerful, optimistic, hopeful. Ex: The usually risible politician shed his sanguine expression the minute he realized he had lost the election.

His paucity of enthusiasm, and absence of his usual sanguine expression, indicated his displeasure over having to spend yet another jejune weekend in deep lucubration.

Question 20

Hebetude

Answer 20

mental dullness; lethargy. Ex: The inept mayor’s re-election would depend entirely on the hebetude of the townspeople, he thought.

To be risible in good company, a non-minatory demeanor – so as to be approachable, and having a mind free of hebetude all make for a great weeknight deipnosophist.

Question 21

Deipnosophist

Answer 21

(pronounced like date-no-sophist) One who converses learnedly at dinner; one of an ancient sect of philosophers, who cultivated learned conversation at meals. Ex: Sam and Jordan are known to be popular deipnosophists, welcomed to many a dinner party.

To be risible in good company, a non-minatory demeanor – so as to be approachable, and having a mind free of hebetude all make for a great weeknight deipnosophist.

Question 22

Frangible

Answer 22

Easily broken; breakable. Ex: Most frangible toys are not suitable for younger children. Frangible ammunition are every bit as effective, and dangerous, as lead filled bullets.

The contretemps episode in the diner, vitiated, no eviscerated the already frangible marriage between the mayor and his staff.

Question 23

Apodictic

Answer 23

Incontestable because of having been demonstrated or proved to be demonstratable; (of a proposition) necessarily true or logically certain. Ex: The earth being spherical is an apodictic fact and not a putative statement.

Make sure he doesn’t divagate from the accusation, you have apodictic evidence that their executive team had hebdomadal meetings trying to bury, the case of causing putative iatrogenic harm to 3 insured patients.

Question 24

Fulminate

Answer 24

To detonate; to explode with a loud noise; to cause to explode. Ex: Using an explosive concoction of fulminated mercury as a defensive weapon Walter White escaped certain death.

Pettifogger Jonathan, known for his fulminating temper and rodomontade rambles, preoccupied his free time, not with books of law, but with mystical and heliolatry literature.

Question 25

Scarify

Answer 25

In surgery, to scratch or make superficial incisions in: as, to scarify the gums. To stir up and prepare for sowing or planting by means of a scarifier: as, to scarify the soil. The culture of the tribe was to ritually scarify the bodies of the performers with ceremonial hieratic styled shapes, and the dance would serve to lionize both their ancestors and their new king.

Question 26

Hebdomadal

Answer 26

Weekly; occuring every 7 days. Ex: The hebdomadal council managed the schools finances and property. Make sure he doesn’t divagate from the accusation, you have apodictic evidence that their executive team had hebdomadal meetings trying to bury, the case of causing putative iatrogenic harm to 3 insured patients.

Question 27

Divagate

Answer 27

To wander; drift about; ramble; digress. Ex: Do not divagate away from the point of our argument. Make sure he doesn’t divagate from the accusation, you have apodictic evidence that their executive team had hebdomadal meetings trying to bury, the case of causing putative iatrogenic harm to 3 insured patients.

Question 28

iatrogenic

Answer 28

Induced unintentionally in a patient by a physician (by words or action). Used especially of an infection or other complication of treatment. Ex: This condition is defined as an iatrogenic complication of ovarian stimulation. Make sure he doesn’t divagate from the accusation, you have apodictic evidence that their executive team had hebdomadal meetings trying to bury, the case of causing putative iatrogenic harm to 3 insured patients.

Question 29

Tergiversation

Answer 29

To turn renegade; to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc. Ex: You may call it tergiversation, but we pros call it diplomacy. Your propinquity with Putin’s general may crepitate of tergiversation, are you known to hobnob with such a protean network.

Question 30

Nacreous

Answer 30

Of or relating to nacre (a hard pearl, iridescent substance that forms the inner layer of certain mollusk shells); resembling nacre; lustrous. Ex- Recycled glass tiles emit a nacreous sheen that changes throughout the day. His ego now triturated, after hearing such hateful hortatory from his opponent, would gain some relief as he took a breath and watched the now nacreous sky.

Question 31

Fainéant

Answer 31

Lazy; Idle. Faineant and given to long naps the unemployed bachelorette existed in a depressing hebetude. I promise you, the article you read was just some factitious drivel, written by some faineant journalist, who hates her job, so she flaunts her sciolist and unresearched ideas on every page.

Question 32

Hispid

Answer 32

rough with stiff hairs, bristles, or minute spines. Ex: The most common were deer mice, white-footed mice, and hispid cotton rats. Jane execrated, having lain her eyes on the fast scurrying twin hispid cotton rats, now undoubtedly the cynosure of the mortified guests.

Question 33

Longanimity

Answer 33

Long suffering; Patient endurance of hardship, injuries, or offense; forbearance Ryu was a man of longanimity, with a saturnine disposition, and a penchant for being a noctivagant, rarely resting in a place.

Question 34

Sciolist

Answer 34

Superficial knowledge. Ex: Broad scholarship gives modesty, but the sciolist everywhere bores with his rodomantade. I promise you, the article you read was just some factitious drivel, written by some faineant journalist, who hates her job, so she flaunts her sciolist and unresearched ideas on every page.

Question 35

Propinquity

Answer 35

Proximity; nearness; Kinship; similarity in nature. The noctivagant now had nothing to fear from the propinquity of the hut. Reassured by the propinquity they developed over the years, neither was willing to sacrifice the friendship. Your propinquity with Putin’s general may crepitate of tergiversation, are you known to hobnob with such a protean network.

Question 36

Factitious

Answer 36

Produced artificially rather than by a natural process; Ex: lacking authenticity or genuineness; sham I promise you, the article you read was just some factitious drivel, written by some faineant journalist, who hates her job, so she flaunts her sciolist and unresearched ideas on every page.

Question 37

Plexiform

Answer 37

Intricate; complex; of, relating to, or resembling a plexus (network, as of nerves or blood vessels, complex structure containing an intricate network of parts)

Question 38

Susurrus

Answer 38

A soft murmuring or rustling sound; whisper. Ex: I walked steadily toward the pennant pole amid a sea of susurrus murmurings. You could make out the happy susurrus from the crowd as Jane, kneeling facing her boyfriend, who now covered in fuliginous rescue gear stood perplexed, bravely asked for his hand.

Question 39

Triturate

Answer 39

To reduce to fine particles or powder by rubbing, grinding, bruising, or the like; pulverize His ego now triturated, after hearing such deceptive and hortatory from his opponent, would gain some relief as he took a breath and watched the now nacreous sky.

Question 40

Protean

Answer 40

Changeable in shape/form, as an amoeba; extremely variable. Your propinquity with Putin’s general may crepitate of tergiversation, are you known to hobnob with such a protean network.

Question 41

Crepitate

Answer 41

To make a crackling sound. Your propinquity with Putin’s general may crepitate of tergiversation, are you known to hobnob with such a protean network.

Question 42

Noctivagant

Answer 42

Wandering in the night. Ex: a noctivagant anmal Ryu was a man of longanimity, with a saturnine disposition, and a penchant for being a noctivagant, rarely resting in a place.

Question 43

Fuliginous

Answer 43

Colored by or as if by soot; sooty. Ex: The fuliginous air hanging over an industrial city. You could make out the happy susurrus from the crowd as Jane, kneeling facing her boyfriend, who now covered in fuliginous rescue gear stood perplexed, bravely asked for his hand.

Question 44

Hortatory

Answer 44

Encouraging; exhorting; urging to some course of conduct or action. His ego now triturated, after hearing such deceptive and hortatory speech from his opponent, would gain some relief as he took a breath and watched the now nacreous sky.

Question 45

Heliolatry

Answer 45

worship of the sun. Pettifogger Jonathan, known for his fulminating temper and rodomontade rambles, preoccupied his free time, not with books of law, but with mystical and heliolatry literature.

Question 46

Sciamachy

Answer 46

An act or instance of fighting a shadow or an imaginary enemy His detractors might as well have been embroiled in sciamachy, as Jean was now the highest sought after model in L.A., partly due to his new look, a now glabrous chin, giving him an epicene flair.

Question 47

Glabrous

Answer 47

Having a surface devoid of hairs or pubescence; smooth His detractors might as well have been embroiled in sciamachy, as Jean was now the highest sought after model in L.A., partly due to his new look, a now glabrous chin, giving him an epicene flair.

Question 48

Pettifogger

Answer 48

to bicker or quibble over triffles or unimportant matters Pettifogger Jonathan, known for his fulminating temper and rodomontade rambles, preoccupied his free time, not with books of law, but with mystical and heliolatry literature.

Question 49

Epicene

Answer 49

Effeminate; belonging to, or partaking of the characteristics of, both sexes. Flaccid; feeble; weak. Effeminate; unmasculine. Ex: fashions in clothing are becoming increasingly epicene. His detractors might as well have been embroiled in sciamachy, as Jean was now the highest sought after model in L.A., partly due to his new look, a now glabrous chin, giving him an epicene flair.