list G

Question 1

Adventitious

Answer 1

adj. Luck: associated with something by chance rather than as an integral part; extrinsic

Question 2

Amulet

Answer 2

n. Luck: a small object worn to ward off evil, harm, or illness or to bring good fortune; protecting charm.

Question 3

Auspicious

Answer 3

adj. Luck: promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable: an auspicious occasion.

Question 4

Fortuitous

Answer 4

adj. Luck: happen to produce by chance

Question 5

Kismet

Answer 5

n. Luck: fate; destiny

Question 6

Optimum

Answer 6

n. Luck: the best or most favorable point, degree, amount. the greatest degree or best result obtained or obtainable under specific conditions

Question 7

Portentous

Answer 7

adj. Luck: ominously significant or indicative, marvelous amazing; prodigious

Question 8

Propitiate

Answer 8

v. Luck: to make favorable inclined; appease

Question 9

Propitious

Answer 9

adj. Luck: presenting favorable conditions; favorable;

Question 10

Providential

Answer 10

adj. luck: of, pertaining to, or resulting from divine; opportune, fortunate, lucky

Question 11

Talisman

Answer 11

n. Luck: a stone, ring or other object, amulet or charm

Question 12

Admonish

Answer 12

v. Nag, to caution, advice or counsel against something. to reprove or scold, especially in a mild and good-willed manner

Question 13

belabor

Answer 13

v. nag. to explain, worry about. to assail persistently, as with scorn or ridicule

Question 14

cavil

Answer 14

v. Nag. to raise irritating and trivial objection

Question 15

enjoin

Answer 15

v. nag. to prescribe with authority or emphasis. to direct or order to do something.

Question 16

exhort

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v. nag. to give urgent advice, recommendations or warnings.

Question 17

harangue

Answer 17

n. nag. a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack.

Question 18

hector

Answer 18

n. nag. a blustering, domineering person; a bully

Question 19

martinet

Answer 19

n. nag. a strict disciplinarian. someone who stubbornly adheres to methods or rules.

Question 20

remonstrate

Answer 20

v. nag. to say or plead in protest, objection or disapproval

Question 21

reproof

Answer 21

n. nag. the act of reproving.

Question 22

fetid

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adj. Nasty. having an offensive odor, stinking

Question 23

noisome

Answer 23

adj. Nasty. offensive or disgusting, as an odor. harmful or injurious to heath

Question 24

noxious

Answer 24

adj. nasty. harmful or injurious to health.

Question 25

askance

Answer 25

adv. Not a straight line. With suspicion, mistrust, or disapproval. with a side glance, sidewise, obliquely

Question 26

awry

Answer 26

adv, adj. not a straight line: with a turn or twist to one side

Question 27

careen

Answer 27

to lean, sway, or tip to one side while in motion

Question 28

carom

Answer 28

n. not a straight line: any strike and rebound.

Question 29

circuitous

Answer 29

adj. not a straight line: roundabout, not direct.

Question 30

circumvent

Answer 30

v. not a straight line: to go around or bypass. to avoid.

Question 31

gyrate

Answer 31

v. not a straight line: to move in a circle or spiral

Question 32

meander

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v. not a straight line: to proceed by or take a winding or indirect course

Question 33

oblique

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n. adj. not a straight line: neither perpendicular nor parallel to a given line or surface.

Question 34

serrated

Answer 34

adj. not a straight line: having a notched edge or sawlike teeth.

Question 35

sidle

Answer 35

n,v. not a straight line: to move sideways or obliquely

Question 36

sinuous

Answer 36

adj. not a straight line: having many curves, bend, or turns.

Question 37

undulating

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v. not a straight line: to move with a sinuous or wavelike motion

Question 38

vortex

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n. not a straight line: a whirling mass of water. a state of affair likened to a whirlpool for violent activity, irresistible force

Question 39

bombastic

Answer 39

adj. overblow/wordy: inflated; pretentious

Question 40

circumlocution

Answer 40

n. overblow/wordy: a roundabout or indirect way of speaking

Question 41

garrulous

Answer 41

adj. overblow/wordy: talkative

Question 42

grandiloquent

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adj. overblow/wordy: speaking or expressed in a lofty style. bombastic

Question 43

loquacious

Answer 43

adj. overblow/wordy: wordy, talkative

Question 44

periphrastic

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adj. overblow/wordy: circumlocutory; roundabout.

Question 45

prolix

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adj. overblow/wordy: extended to great, unnecessary, or tedious length

Question 46

rhetoric

Answer 46

n. overblow/wordy: the undue use of exaggeration or display; bombast

Question 47

Ameliorate

Answer 47

v. pacify/satisfy: to make or become better

Question 48

assuage

Answer 48

v. pacify/satisfy: to make milder or less severe

Question 49

defer

Answer 49

v. pacify/satisfy: to put off(action, consideration) to a future time. to exempt temporarily from induction into military service.

Question 50

mitigate

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v. pacify/satisfy: to lessen in force

Question 51

mollify

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v. pacify/satisfy: to soften in feeling or temper; pacify; appease

Question 52

placate

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v. pacify/satisfy: to appease

Question 53

propitiate

Answer 53

v. pacify/satisfy: to make favorably inclined; appease

Question 54

satiate

Answer 54

v. pacify/satisfy: to supply with anything to excess

Question 55

slake

Answer 55

v. pacify/satisfy: to allay by satisfying

Question 56

soothe

Answer 56

v. pacify/satisfy: to tranquilize or calm. relieve.