List 3

Question 1

Epilogue

Answer 1

a concluding section that rounds out the design of a literary work

Question 2

Pathos

Answer 2

a quality, as of an experience or a work of art, that arouses feelings of pity, sympathy, tenderness, or sorrow

Question 3

Ferret

Answer 3

to drive out (from hiding); to uncover and bring to light by searching

Question 4

Surreptitious

Answer 4

obtained, done, or made by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine

Question 5

Conflagration

Answer 5

a very intense and uncontrolled fire

Question 6

Profligate

Answer 6

utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute

Question 7

Efface

Answer 7

to wipe out; do away with; expunge

Question 8

Dissimulation

Answer 8

to hide under a false appearance

Question 9

Concomitant

Answer 9

existing or occurring with something else, often in a lesser way; accompanying; attendant; concurrent

Question 10

Contenance

Answer 10

bearing or expression; mental composure; face or visage

Question 11

Dejection

Answer 11

depression or lowness of spirits

Question 12

Paroxysm

Answer 12

a sudden, violent outburst; a fit or violent action or emotion; spasm, fit, or convulsion

Question 13

Affable

Answer 13

pleasantly easy to approach and to talk to; friendly; cordial; warmly polite

Question 14

Exculpate

Answer 14

to clear from a charge of guilt or fault; free from blame; vindicate

Question 15

Rake

Answer 15

an immoral person; debauchee

Question 16

Inexorable

Answer 16

unyielding; unalterable

Question 17

Carte Blanche

Answer 17

unconditional authority; full discretionary power

Question 18

Obsequious

Answer 18

characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning; sycophantic

Question 19

Axiom

Answer 19

a self-evident truth that requires no proof; a universally accepted principle or rule

Question 20

Arbiter

Answer 20

a person who decides and determines matters such as a judge

Question 21

Inured

Answer 21

to accustom to hardship, difficulty, or pain; toughen or harden

Question 22

Pernicious

Answer 22

causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful

Question 23

Propensity

Answer 23

a natural (innate) inclination or tendency

Question 24

Louse

Answer 24

any of numerous small, flat-bodied, wingless biting or sucking insects

Question 25

Schism

Answer 25

division or disunion, esp. into mutually opposed parties

Question 26

Deference

Answer 26

respectful submission or courteous yielding to the judgement, opinion, wishes, or will of another

Question 27

Stultify

Answer 27

to render useless or ineffectual; to cripple; to render absurdly or wholly futile or ineffectual

Question 28

Harbinger

Answer 28

person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another; herald

Question 29

Casuistry

Answer 29

specious, deceptive, or oversubtle reasoning esp. in questions of morality; fallacious or dishonest application of general principles

Question 30

Peremptory

Answer 30

putting an end to all debate or action