Level 9

Question 1

Prolix

Answer 1

extended to great, unnecessary, or tedious length; long and wordy.
(of a person) given to speaking or writing at great or tedious length.

His academic paper isn’t prolix in its disquisition on extrabiblical and apocryphal texts, I’d say it’s precise.

Question 2

Apocryphal

Answer 2

of doubtful authorship or authenticity.

His academic paper isn’t prolix in its disquisition on extrabiblical and apocryphal texts, I’d say it’s precise.

Question 3

Cupidity

Answer 3

Avarice. Excessive desire for something.

With much temerity the older Vince would demand a higher cut of the profits, making his cupidity evident to his diffident bandmates.

Question 4

Vernal

Answer 4

of or pertaining to spring: vernal sunshine.

Who could have suspected that such a vernal woman and parsimonious saver, could have such puissant appetite for munificence to charity.

Question 5

Temerity

Answer 5

reckless boldness; rashness.

With much temerity the older Vince would demand a higher cut of the profits, making his cupidity evident to his diffident bandmates.

Question 6

Rapprochement

Answer 6

an establishment or reestablishment of harmonious relations: a rapprochement reached between warring factions.

Question 7

Disquisition

Answer 7

Dissertation; a formal discourse or treatise in which a subject is examined and discussed.

His academic paper isn’t prolix in its disquisition on extrabiblical and apocryphal texts, I’d say it’s precise.

Question 8

Proscribe

Answer 8

to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.
to put outside the protection of the law; outlaw.
to banish or exile.

After all the court cannot proscribe your actions if you present the indefeasibility of title document, no adventitious person has the right to squat in your home, talk less of defenestrate your belongings unto the lawn.

Question 9

Munificence

Answer 9

the quality of being munificent, or showing unusual generosity: The museum’s collection was greatly increased by the munificence of the family’s gift.

Who could have suspected that such a vernal woman and parsimonious saver, could have such puissant appetite for munificence to charity.

Question 10

Probity

Answer 10

integrity and uprightness; honesty.

Question 11

Puissant

Answer 11

Powerful; mighty; potent

Who could have suspected that such a vernal woman and parsimonious saver, could have such puissant appetite for munificence to charity.

Question 12

Peculate

Answer 12

To steal or take dishonestly; embezzle

The specious offer to peculate untraceable funds proved impossible to pass up, at least not by the venal executive, always ready to play outside the rules.

Question 13

Diffident

Answer 13

Lacking confidence in one’s own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy.

Few would guess the ostensibly diffident shopkeeper Fidel, who made sure to keep an air of comity, found it noisome entertaining the parsimonious tourist crowds who’d wander in during the week, and stare at his highly priced, far from quotidian artifacts without buying.

Question 14

Venal

Answer 14

Willing to sell one’s influence, especially in return for a bribe; open to corruption, even bribery; mercenary

The specious offer to peculate untraceable funds proved impossible to pass up, at least not by the venal executive, always ready to play outside the rules.

Question 15

Parsimonious

Answer 15

Characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy

Who could have suspected that such a vernal woman and parsimonious saver, could have such puissant appetite for munificence to charity.

Question 16

Pusillanimous

Answer 16

Lacking courage or resolution; cowardly; timid

The media proved that efforts to traduce and use calumny against the mayor were a pusillanimous attempt.

Question 17

Extant

Answer 17

Standing out; protruding; in existence; not destroyed or lost

Question 18

Meretricious

Answer 18

Alluring by a show of flashy or vulgar attractions; tawdry

The fugacious reality TV show was low class, meretricious, and deservedly received poor ratings, even before it was excoriated by the democratic left.

Question 19

Xenophobia

Answer 19

Fear or hatred of foreigners, people from different cultures, or strangers

The sense of xenophobia was extant, even now as the tourists in dishabille made their way past the sea of faces plastered with disingenuous smiles in the market.

Question 20

Quotidian

Answer 20

Daily; usual or customary; ordinary.

Few would guess the ostensibly diffident shopkeeper Fidel, who made sure to keep an air of comity, found it noisome entertaining the parsimonious tourist crowds who’d wander in during the week, and stare at his highly priced, far from quotidian artifacts without buying.

Question 21

Exigency

Answer 21

Urgency; a case that demands prompt action or remedy.

Once it was realized that Joaquin, leader of the flagitious Sinaloa cartel, had ordered the extirpation of the mole, the operation had been compromised, forcing an exigent response by the bureau.

Question 22

Pulchritude

Answer 22

Physical beauty; comeliness

The pulchritude of the home brought a recrudescence of cheer and calm.

Question 23

Denouncement

Answer 23

The final resolution or clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot

Did the peripatetic scholar show probity in his denouncement of the saturnalia rites?

Question 24

Fugacious

Answer 24

Passing away quickly; evanescent

The fugacious reality TV show was low class, meretricious, and deservedly received poor ratings, even before it was excoriated by the democratic left.

Question 25

Turbid

Answer 25

Thick or dense, as smoke or clouds; confused; muddled; disturbed; not clear or transparent because of stirred-up sentiment or the like The scurrilous witch character would need to appear to vanish as the turbid set now filled with prop trees and humming smoke machines.

Question 26

Indefeasible

Answer 26

No defeasible; not to be defeated or made void; that cannot be set aside or overcome After all the court cannot proscribe your actions if you present the indefeasibility of title document, no adventitious person has the right to squat in your home, talk less of defenestrate your belongings unto the lawn.

Question 27

Disingenuous

Answer 27

Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating; pretending to be unaware or unsophisticated The sense of xenophobia was extant, even now as the tourists in dishabille made their way past the sea of faces plastered with disingenuous smiles in the market.

Question 28

Scurrilous

Answer 28

Given to the use of vulgar, coarse, or abusive language The scurrilous witch character would need to appear to vanish as the turbid set now filled with prop trees and humming smoke machines.

Question 29

Recrudescence

Answer 29

A return; a reappearance The pulchritude of the home brought a recrudescence of cheer and calm.

Question 30

Defenestrate

Answer 30

An act of throwing someone of something out of a window After all the court cannot proscribe your actions if you present the indefeasibility of title document, no adventitious person has the right to squat in your home, talk less of defenestrate your belongings unto the lawn.

Question 31

Dilatory

Answer 31

Causing or intended to cause delay Picture the plants, desiccated and dying, while the dilatory gardener spent the entire day chatting with neighbors, reading her book, and on her tablet focused on other matters.

Question 32

Vilify

Answer 32

To speak ill of; defame; slander

Question 33

Phlegmatic

Answer 33

Calm, self-possessed, or composed, not easily excited to action or display of emotion. Patients experienced lassitude, as their movements were slow, their speech phlegmatic.

Question 34

Adventitious

Answer 34

Associated with something by chance rather than as an integral part; extrinsic After all the court cannot proscribe your actions if you present the indefeasibility of title document, no adventitious person has the right to squat in your home, talk less of defenestrate your belongings unto the lawn.

Question 35

Desiccated

Answer 35

Dehydrated or powdered Picture the plants, desiccated and dying, while the dilatory gardener spent the entire day chatting with neighbors, reading her book, and on her tablet focused on other matters.

Question 36

Comity

Answer 36

Civility; mutual courtesy as in a comity of nations, respect shown between nations. Few would guess the ostensibly diffident shopkeeper Fidel, who made sure to keep an air of comity, found it noisome entertaining the parsimonious tourist crowds who’d wander in during the week, and stare at his highly priced, far from quotidian artifacts without buying.

Question 37

Specious

Answer 37

Pleasing to the eye but deceptive; superficially pleasing The specious offer to peculate untraceable funds proved impossible to pass up, at least not by the venal executive, always ready to play outside the rules.

Question 38

Noisome

Answer 38

Offensive or disgusting, as an odor Few would guess the ostensibly diffident shopkeeper Fidel, who made sure to keep an air of comity, found it noisome entertaining the parsimonious tourist crowds who’d wander in during the week, and stare at his highly priced, far from quotidian artifacts without buying.

Question 39

Calumny

Answer 39

The act of uttering calumnies; slander; defamation; a false and malicious statement designed to injure the reputation of someone or something The media proved that efforts to traduce and use calumny against the mayor were a pusillanimous attempt.

Question 40

Excoriate

Answer 40

To denounce or berate severely; flay verbally The fugacious reality TV show was low class, meretricious, and deservedly received poor ratings, even before it was excoriated by the democratic left.

Question 41

Lassitude

Answer 41

Weariness of body or mind from strain, oppressive climate, etc. A condition of indolent indifference. Patients experienced lassitude, as their movements were slow, their speech phlegmatic.

Question 42

Traduce

Answer 42

To speak maliciously and falsely of; slander; defame The media proved that efforts to traduce and use calumny against the mayor were a pusillanimous attempt.

Question 43

Dishabille

Answer 43

The state of being dressed in a careless, dishveled, or disorderly manner. The sense of xenophobia was extant, even now as the tourists in dishabille made their way past the sea of faces plastered with disingenuous smiles in the market.

Question 44

Saturnalia

Answer 44

Unrestrained revelry; orgy; the festival of Saturn, celebrated in December in ancient Rome as a time of unrestrained merrymaking Did the peripatetic scholar show probity in his denouncement of the saturnalia rites?

Question 45

Extirpate

Answer 45

To remove or destroy totally; to do away with; exterminate; to pull up by or as if by the roots. Once it was realized that Joaquin, leader of the flagitious Sinaloa cartel, had ordered the extirpation of the mole, the operation had been compromised, forcing an exigent response by the bureau.

Question 46

Flagitious

Answer 46

Infamous; shamefully wicked, as persons, actions or times. Once it was realized that Joaquin, leader of the flagitious Sinaloa cartel, had ordered the extirpation of the mole, the operation had been compromised, forcing an exigent response by the bureau.

Question 47

Peripatetic

Answer 47

Walking or traveling about; itinerant; a person who walks or travels about Did the peripatetic scholar show probity in his denouncement of the saturnalia rites?

Question 48

Cachinnate

Answer 48

To laugh loudly or immoderately Only if you manumit your 9 to 5 workers will you expiate for your capitalist wrongdoings, cachinnated the now drunk supervisor.

Question 49

Manumit

Answer 49

To release from slavery or servitude Only if you manumit your 9 to 5 workers will you expiate for your capitalist wrongdoings, cachinnated the now drunk supervisor.

Question 50

Expiation

Answer 50

The means by which atonement or reparation is made; paying a penance Only if you manumit your 9 to 5 workers will you expiate for your capitalist wrongdoings, cachinnated the now drunk supervisor.