Level 1A

Question 0

Ostensible

2s

Answer 0

Apparent, appearing or seeming. to be true, professed or declared as true without being demonstrated or proved
s: plausible, specious

Question 1

Paraphrase

Answer 1

restate, put what someone else has expressed into different words

Question 2

Digress

Answer 2

to wander, stray from the point, ramble, deviate, go of in another direction

Question 3

Uncanny

Answer 3

eerie, strange, weird, mysterious

Question 4

candor

4s

Answer 4

frankness, openness, sincere expression

s: straightforwardness, outspokenness, forthrightness, ingenuousness

Question 5

morose

3s, 3a, 1r

Answer 5

gloomy, moody, glum, grumpy, ill-tempered, depressed

s: dolorous, lugubrious, saturnine
a: optimistic, jovial, sanguine
r: misanthropy

Question 6

Adept

8s

Answer 6

skilled

s: handy, clever, able, deft, expert, adroit, dexterous, proficient.

Question 7

saturated

6s

Answer 7

soaked, thoroughly wet, full of moisture

s: drenched, steeped, permeated, impregnanted, imbued, sodden

Question 8

pragmatic

Answer 8

practical, having to do w actual practice, concerned w everyday affairs as opposed to theory or speculation

Question 9

congenial

3a

Answer 9

sympathetic, agreeable, compatible, kindred, harmonious, having same taste, nature or temperament
a: alien, dissident, incongruous

Question 10

capricious

7s, 1r

Answer 10

unpredictable, tending to change w/o apparent or logical reason

s: flighty, changeable, impulsive, fickle, erratic, whimsical, volatile
r: caprice

Question 11

blatant

Answer 11

noisy, disagreeably or offensively loud, boisterous, clamorous, sticking out in glaring way

Question 12

obligatory

Answer 12

required, necessary, mandatory

Question 13

negligible

Answer 13

unimportant, trifling, of little consequence

Question 14

adamant

Answer 14

unyielding, immovable, inflexible, refusing to give in, unshakable, unrelenting

Question 15

sporadic

3a

Answer 15

occasional, infrequent, not constant

a: constant, incessant, unremitting

Question 16

vanguard

Answer 16

forefront of an action or movement, leading position or persons in a movement

Question 17

concur

Answer 17

agree, be in accord w, unite in opinion

Question 18

precociousness

1a

Answer 18

early development or maturity

a: retardation

Question 19

aloof

4s

Answer 19

apart, at a distance, removed, withdrawn

s: unsympathetic, unapproachable, standoffish, indifferent