list H

Question 1

Euphonious

Answer 1

adj. pleasant-sounding: pleasant in soud; agreeable to the ear

Question 2

melodious

Answer 2

adj. pleasant-sounding

Question 3

sonorous

Answer 3

adj. pleasant-sounding: giving out or capable of giving out a sound.

Question 4

destitute

Answer 4

v. adj. poor: without means of subsistence; lacking food, clothing and shelter.

Question 5

Esurient

Answer 5

adj. poor. hungry; greedy

Question 6

impecunious

Answer 6

adj. poor: having little or no money

Question 7

indigent

Answer 7

adj. poor: lacking food, clothing and other necessities of life because of poverty.

Question 8

acclaim

Answer 8

v. praise: to welcome or salute with shouts or sounds of joy and approval

Question 9

accolade

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n. praise: any award honor or laudatory notice.

Question 10

aggrandize

Answer 10

v. praise. to widen in scope, increase in size or intensity. to make great or greater in power

Question 11

encomium

Answer 11

n. priase: a formal expression of high praise; eulogy

Question 12

eulogize

Answer 12

v. praise. to praise highly

Question 13

extol

Answer 13

v. praise: to praise highly

Question 14

fawn

Answer 14

v . praise: to seek notice or favor by servile demeanor

Question 15

laud

Answer 15

v. to praise

Question 16

venerate

Answer 16

v. praise: to regard or treat with reverence. to hold in deep respect

Question 17

augur

Answer 17

v. predict: to divine or predict

Question 18

auspice

Answer 18

n. predict: a favorable sign or propitious circumstance

Question 19

fey

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adj.predict: supernatural; unreal; enchanted. fated to dead.

Question 20

harbinger

Answer 20

n. predict: a person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another. herald. anything that foreshadows a future event.

Question 21

portentous

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adj. predict: marvelous; amazing; prodigious

Question 22

presage

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n. predict: a presentiment or foreboding. (Bad feeling)

Question 23

prescient

Answer 23

adj. predict: having knowledge of things or events before they exist or happen

Question 24

prognosticate

Answer 24

v. predict: to forecast or predict from present indication or signs

Question 25

discomfort

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n. prevent/obstruct an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.

Question 26

encumber

Answer 26

v. prevent/obstruct: to impede or hinder; hamper; retard. to block up. to burden or weigh down

Question 27

fetter

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n. prevent/obstruct: a chain or shackle placed on the feet; v. to confine; restrain

Question 28

forfend

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v. prevent/obstruct: to defend, secure, or protect. to fend off, to avert or prevent

Question 29

hinder

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v. prevent/obstruct: to cause delay, interruption

Question 30

impede

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v. prevent/obstruct: to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances

Question 31

inhibit

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v. prevent/obstruct: to restrain hinder arrest

Question 32

occlude

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v. prevent/obstruct: to close, shut or to stop up.

Question 33

astute

Answer 33

adj. small/learned: of keen penetration or discernment; sagacious. clever; cunning; ingenious

Question 34

canny

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adj. small/learned: careful; cautious; prudent. astute

Question 35

perspicacious

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adj. small/learned: having keen mental perception and understanding. discerning.

Question 36

disconsolate

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adj. sorrow: without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy

Question 37

doleful

Answer 37

adj. sorrowful; mournful, melancholy

Question 38

dolor

Answer 38

n. sorrow, grief

Question 39

elegiac

Answer 39

adj. sorrow: expressing sorrow or lamentation

Question 40

forlorn

Answer 40

adj. sorrow: desolate or dreary; unhappy or miserable. lonely and sad; forsaken.

Question 41

lament

Answer 41

v. sorrow: to feel or express sorrow

Question 42

lugubrious

Answer 42

adj. sorrow: mournful, dismal

Question 43

melancholy

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n. sorrow: a gloomy state of mind

Question 44

morose

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adj. sorrow: gloomily or sullenly ill-humored

Question 45

plaintive

Answer 45

adj. expressing sorrow or melancholy

Question 46

threnody

Answer 46

n. sorrow: a poem, speech or song of lamentation

Question 47

implacable

Answer 47

adj. stubborn: not to be appeased.

Question 48

inexorable

Answer 48

adj. stubborn: unyielding; unalterable

Question 49

intractable

Answer 49

adj. stubborn: not easily controlled or directed.

Question 50

intransigent

Answer 50

adj. stubborn: refusing to agree or compromise

Question 51

obdurate

Answer 51

adj. unmoved by persuasion, pity

Question 52

obstinate

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adj. stubborn: firmly or stubbornly adhering to one's purpose, opinion.

Question 53

recalcitrant

Answer 53

adj. stubborn: resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant

Question 54

refractory

Answer 54

adj. stubborn: hard or impossible to manage

Question 55

untoward

Answer 55

adj. stubborn: unfavorable or unfortunate

Question 56

vex

Answer 56

v. stubborn: to irritate; annoy; provoke; to discuss or debate with vigor or at great length.