List 5

Question 1

Peregrination

Answer 1

to journey or travel from place to place, especially on foot; to travel through or over; traverse

Question 2

Gaffe

Answer 2

a social blunder; faux pas; a clumsy social error

Question 3

Virago

Answer 3

a loud voice, ill-tempered, scolding woman; shrew

Question 4

Ubiquitous

Answer 4

existing or being everywhere, especially at the same time; being or seeming to be everywhere at once; omnipresent

Question 5

Flippant

Answer 5

disrespectful levity; frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; speaking with ease and rapidity

Question 6

Excoriate

Answer 6

to denounce or berate severely, flay severely; to remove or strip off skin

Question 7

Bilateral

Answer 7

pertaining to, involving, or affecting two or both sides, factions, parties, or the like

Question 8

Cajole

Answer 8

to persuade by flattery or promises; wheedle; coax; to urge with gentle, repeated appeals

Question 9

Erstwhile

Answer 9

in the past; at a former time; belonging to a previous time; former

Question 10

Saturnine

Answer 10

sluggish in temperament, gloomy, taciturn

Question 11

Fortnight

Answer 11

period of 14 days or two weeks

Question 12

Subrogate

Answer 12

to put in the place of another; especially to substitute for another with regard to a legal right or claim

Question 13

Nostrum

Answer 13

a medicine sold with false or exaggerated claims and with no demonstrable value; quack medicine

Question 14

Ignominy

Answer 14

deep, personal dishonor or humiliation; disgrace

Question 15

Paragon

Answer 15

a model or pattern of excellence or of particular excellence

Question 16

Preceptor

Answer 16

an instructor; teacher; tutor

Question 17

Platitude

Answer 17

a trite or banal remark or statement, especially one expressed as if it were original or significant; lack of originality

Question 18

Odious

Answer 18

arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure; deserving or causing hatred

Question 19

Congruence

Answer 19

the quality or state of agreeing or corresponding; agreement, harmony

Question 20

Mercurial

Answer 20

changeable; volatile; fickled; flighty; erratic

Question 21

Repine

Answer 21

to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain

Question 22

Nebulous

Answer 22

cloudy, misty, or hazy; lacking definite forms or limits; vague

Question 23

Elysium

Answer 23

any place or state of perfect happiness; paradise

Question 24

Amenable

Answer 24

ready or willing to answer, act, agree, or yield; open to influence, persuasion, or advice; agreeable; submissive; tractable

Question 25

Expiate

Answer 25

to extinguish the guilt incurred by; to make amends for

Question 26

Prosaic

Answer 26

commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative

Question 27

Induce

Answer 27

to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind

Question 28

Circumlocution

Answer 28

a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; evasion in speech or writing; rambling, meandering

Question 29

Dereliction

Answer 29

deliberate or conscious neglect; willful neglect, as of a duty or principle; the act of abandoning; abandonment

Question 30

Draconian

Answer 30

extremely cruel or sever; rigorous