List 10 (30 words)

Question 1

Acerbic

Answer 1

Sharp

Question 2

Adulation

Answer 2

Excessive admiration or praise

Question 3

Alacrity

Answer 3

Cheerful eagerness

Question 4

Brevity

Answer 4

Briefness

Question 5

Bucolic

Answer 5

Charmingly rural

Question 6

Choleric

Answer 6

Hot-tempered

Question 7

Charlatan

Answer 7

Fraud

Question 8

Connoisseur

Answer 8

An expert

Question 9

Culpable

Answer 9

Guilty

Question 10

Desiccate

Answer 10

To dry out

Question 11

Efface

Answer 11

To erase

Question 12

Fatalist

Answer 12

Someone who believes that future events are already determined and that humans are powerless to change them

Question 13

Fervour

Answer 13

Passionate feeling

Question 14

Forgo

Answer 14

To go without

Question 15

Iconoclast

Answer 15

One who attacks popular beliefs

Question 16

Ignominy

Answer 16

Deep disgrace

Question 17

Insatiable

Answer 17

Hard or impossible to satisfy

Question 18

Insular

Answer 18

Ignorant of or uninterested in other ideas

Question 19

Libel

Answer 19

A published false statement which damages a person’s reputation

Question 20

Malaise

Answer 20

A feeling of depression

Question 21

Myopia

Answer 21

Nearsightedness

Question 22

Neologism

Answer 22

A new word or phrase

Question 23

Mendicant

Answer 23

Beggar

Question 24

Opulent

Answer 24

Luxurious

Question 25

Patrician

Answer 25

Aristocrat

Question 26

Penitent

Answer 26

Feeling or showing sorrow and regret

Question 27

Perennial

Answer 27

Continual

Question 28

Prodigal

Answer 28

Wastefully extravagant

Question 29

Quixotic

Answer 29

Unrealistically idealistic

Question 30

Rustic

Answer 30

Rural