list C

Question 1

bereave

Answer 1

v. death/mourning. to deprive and make desolate, especially by death.

Question 2

cadaver

Answer 2

n. death/mourning: a dead body

Question 3

defunct

Answer 3

adj. death/mourning: no longer in effect or use; not operating or functioning.

Question 4

demise

Answer 4

n. death/mourning: death or decease.

Question 5

dolorous

Answer 5

adj. death/mourning: full of, expressing, or causing pain or sorrow; grievous; mournful

Question 6

elegy

Answer 6

n. death/mourning: a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem

Question 7

knell

Answer 7

n. death/mourning: the sound or sign announcing the death of person or the end

Question 8

lament

Answer 8

v. death/mourning: to feel or express sorrow

Question 9

macabre

Answer 9

adj, death/mourning: gruesome and horrifying

Question 10

moribund

Answer 10

adj. death/mourning: in a dying state

Question 11

obsequies

Answer 11

n. death/mourning: a funeral rite or ceremony

Question 12

sepulchral

Answer 12

adj. death/mourning: of or pertaining to burial

Question 13

wraith

Answer 13

n. death/mourning: an apparition of a living person supposed to portend his or her death. a visible spirit

Question 14

abnegate

Answer 14

v. denying of self: to refuse or deny oneself

Question 15

abstain

Answer 15

v. denying of self: to hold oneself back voluntarily, especially from something regarded as improper or unhealthy

Question 16

ascetic

Answer 16

n. denying of self: a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practice extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reason.

Question 17

spartan

Answer 17

adj. denying of self: sternly disciplined and rigorously simple, frugal, or austere

Question 18

stoic

Answer 18

adj. denying of self.

Question 19

temperate

Answer 19

adj. denying of self: moderate or self-restrained; not extreme in opinion, statement

Question 20

authoritarian

Answer 20

adj, n. dictatorial

Question 21

despotic

Answer 21

adj, dictatorial

Question 22

dogmatic

Answer 22

adj, dictatorial: asserting opinions in a doctrinaire or arrogant manner

Question 23

hegemonic

Answer 23

adj, dictatorial: dominance

Question 24

imperious

Answer 24

adj. dictatorial: domineering in a haughty manner.

Question 25

peremptory

Answer 25

adj. dictatorial: leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal

Question 26

tyrannical

Answer 26

adj. dictatorial: unjustly cruel, harsh

Question 27

abstruse

Answer 27

adj. Difficult to understand. recondite

Question 28

ambiguous

Answer 28

adj. Difficult to understand.

Question 29

arcane

Answer 29

adj. difficult to understand: known or understood by very few; mysterious

Question 30

bemusing

Answer 30

v. difficult to understand: to bewilder or confuse

Question 31

cryptic

Answer 31

adj. difficult to understand

Question 32

enigmatic

Answer 32

adj. difficult to understand; mysterious

Question 33

esoteric

Answer 33

adj. difficult to understand; understood by very few

Question 34

inscrutable

Answer 34

adj. difficult to udnerstand: incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized.

Question 35

obscure

Answer 35

adj. difficult to understand: not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague

Question 36

opaque

Answer 36

adj, difficult to understand: not transparent

Question 37

paradoxical

Answer 37

adj. difficult to understand

Question 38

perplexing

Answer 38

adj. difficult to understand

Question 39

recondite

Answer 39

adj. difficult to understand: dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter. beyond ordinary knowledge

Question 40

turbid

Answer 40

adj. difficult to understand: not clear or transparent because of stirred-up sediment or the like.

Question 41

defile

Answer 41

v. Disgusting/Offensive: to make foul, dirty, or unclean

Question 42

fetid

Answer 42

adj, Disgusting/Offensive: having an offensive odor; stinking

Question 43

invidious

Answer 43

adj, disgusting/offensive: calculated to create ill will or resentment or give offense; hateful

Question 44

odious

Answer 44

adj. disgusting/offensive: deserving or causing hatred; hateful

Question 45

putrid

Answer 45

adj. offensive/disgusting: in a state of foul decay or decomposition. thoroughly corrupt, depraved, or evil

Question 46

rebarbative

Answer 46

adj. disgusting/offensive: causing annoyance, irritation, or aversion; repellent

Question 47

articulate

Answer 47

adj, n. easy to understand

Question 48

cogent

Answer 48

adj. easy to understand: convincing or believable. clear

Question 49

eloquent

Answer 49

adj. easy to understand: having or exercising the power of fluent, forceful and appropriate speech

Question 50

evident

Answer 50

adj. easy to understand: plain or clear to the sight or understanding

Question 51

limpid

Answer 51

adj. easy to understand: clear, transparent, pellucid

Question 52

pellucid

Answer 52

adj. easy to understand

Question 53

lucid

Answer 53

adj. easy to understand