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Question 1

Morass

Answer 1

noun
1.
an area of muddy or boggy ground.
synonyms: quagmire, swamp, bog, marsh, mire, quag, marshland, peat bog, fen, slough, quicksand; More
2.
a complicated or confused situation.
“she would become lost in a morass of lies and explanations”
synonyms: confusion, chaos, muddle, tangle, entanglement, imbroglio, mix-up, jumble, clutter;

Question 2

analogous

Answer 2

adjective

comparable in certain respects, typically in a way which makes clearer the nature of the things compared.

“they saw the relationship between a ruler and his subjects as analogous to that of father and children”

synonyms: comparable, parallel, similar, like, corresponding, related, kindred, matching, cognate, equivalent, symmetrical, homologous
“sport is in some ways analogous to life”

Question 3

arbitrary

Answer 3

adjective

based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system.

“his mealtimes were entirely arbitrary”

synonyms: capricious, whimsical, random, chance, erratic, unpredictable, inconsistent, wild, hit-or-miss, haphazard, casual; More

Question 4

appreciable

Answer 4

adjective

large or important enough to be noticed.

“tea and coffee both contain appreciable amounts of caffeine”
synonyms: considerable, substantial, significant, sizeable, goodly, fair, reasonable, tidy, marked

Question 5

malevolent

Answer 5

adjective

having or showing a wish to do evil to others.

“the glint of dark, malevolent eyes”

synonyms: malicious, spiteful, hostile, evil-minded, baleful, bitter, evil-intentioned, poisonous, venomous, evil, malign, malignant, rancorous, vicious, vindictive, revengeful, vengeful, pernicious;

Question 6

equivocate

Answer 6

verb

use ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth or avoid committing oneself.

““Not that we are aware of,” she equivocated”

synonyms: prevaricate, be evasive, be noncommittal, be vague, be ambiguous, evade/dodge the issue, beat about the bush, hedge, hedge one’s bets, fudge the issue;

Question 7

acerbic

Answer 7

adjective
1.
(especially of a comment or style of speaking) sharp and forthright.
“his acerbic wit”
synonyms: sharp, sarcastic, sardonic, satirical, scathing, cutting, razor-edged, incisive, penetrating, piercing, biting, stinging, searing, keen, caustic, trenchant, bitter, acrimonious, astringent, harsh, severe, devastating, abrasive, wounding, hurtful, unkind, cruel, vitriolic, virulent, mordant, venomous, waspish, poisonous, spiteful, vicious, malicious; More

Question 8

pedantic

Answer 8

adjective
of or like a pedant.
“many of the essays are long, dense, and too pedantic to hold great appeal”
synonyms: overscrupulous, scrupulous, precise, exact, over-exacting, perfectionist, precisionist, punctilious, meticulous, fussy, fastidious, finical, finicky; More

Question 9

circumscribe

Answer 9

verb
1.
restrict (something) within limits.
“their movements were strictly monitored and circumscribed”
synonyms: restrict, limit, set/impose limits on, keep within bounds, delimit, curb, confine, bound, restrain;

Question 10

vacuous

Answer 10

adjective

having or showing a lack of thought or intelligence; mindless.

“a vacuous smile”

synonyms: blank, vacant, expressionless, deadpan, inscrutable, inexpressive, poker-faced, emotionless, impassive, absent, absentminded, uninterested, empty, glassy, stony, wooden, motionless, lifeless, inanimate

Question 11

banality

Answer 11

noun

the fact or condition of being banal;

unoriginality.

“there is an essential banality to the story he tells”

synonyms: triteness, platitudinousness, vapidity, pedestrianism, conventionality, predictability, staleness, unimaginativeness, lack of originality, lack of inspiration, prosaicness, dullness, ordinariness; More

Question 12

capacious

Answer 12

adjective

having a lot of space inside; roomy.

“she rummaged in her capacious handbag”

synonyms: roomy, commodious, spacious, ample, big, large, sizeable, generous, extensive, substantial, vast, huge, immense;

Question 13

pedant

Answer 13

noun

a person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning.

“the royal palace (some pedants would say the ex-royal palace)”

synonyms: dogmatist, purist, literalist, formalist, doctrinaire;

Question 14

paragon

Answer 14

noun

a person or thing regarded as a perfect example of a particular quality.

“it would have taken a paragon of virtue not to feel viciously jealous”

a person or thing viewed as a model of excellence.
“your cook is a paragon”

synonyms: perfect example, shining example, good example, model, epitome, archetype, ideal, exemplar, nonpareil, paradigm, embodiment, personification,

Question 15

capitulation

Answer 15

noun

the action of surrendering or ceasing to resist an opponent or demand.

“a capitulation to wage demands”

synonyms: surrender, submission, yielding, giving in, succumbing, acquiescence, laying down of arms

Question 16

portent

Answer 16

noun
1.
a sign or warning that something, especially something momentous or calamitous, is likely to happen.
“they believed that wild birds in the house were portents of death”
synonyms: omen, sign, indication, presage, warning, forewarning, harbinger, augury, signal, promise, threat, menace, ill omen, forecast, prediction, prognostication, prophecy, straw in the wind, writing on the wall, hint, auspice

Question 17

rhetorical

Answer 17

adjective

synonyms: stylistic, oratorical, linguistic, verbal
synonyms: extravagant, grandiloquent, magniloquent, high-flown, high-sounding, sonorous, lofty, orotund, bombastic, grandiose, pompous, pretentious, overblown, overripe, oratorical, turgid, flowery, florid, declamatory,

Question 18

Pontificate

Answer 18

verb

express one’s opinions in a way considered annoyingly pompous and dogmatic.

“he was pontificating about art and history”

synonyms: hold forth, expound, declaim, preach, lay down the law, express one’s opinion (pompously), sound off, spout (off), dogmatize, sermonize, moralize, pronounce, lecture, expatiate;

Question 19

Glib

Answer 19

adjective

(of words or the person speaking them) fluent and voluble but insincere and shallow.

“she was careful not to let the answer sound too glib”

synonyms: slick, pat, neat, plausible, silky, smooth-talking, fast-talking;

Question 20

duplicity

Answer 20

noun

deceitfulness; double-dealing.

“the president was accused of duplicity in his dealings with Congress”

synonyms: deceitfulness, deceit, deception, deviousness, two-facedness, double-dealing, underhandedness, dishonesty, falseness, falsity, fraud, fraudulence, sharp practice, swindling, cheating, chicanery, trickery, craft, guile, artifice, subterfuge, skulduggery, treachery, unfairness, unjustness, perfidy, improbity;