Magoosh Advanced 3

Question 1

Mendicant

Answer 1

a pauper who lives by begging

Question 2

Moribund

Answer 2

being on the point of death; declining rapidly losing all momentum in progress

Question 3

Mulct

Answer 3

to defraud or swindle

Question 4

Noisome

Answer 4

having an extremely bad smell

Question 5

Objurgate

Answer 5

rebuke severely; scold

Question 6

Obtain

Answer 6

be valid, applicable, or true

Question 7

Ossify

Answer 7

make rigid and set into a conventional pattern

Question 8

Overweening

Answer 8

arrogant; presumptuous

Question 9

Palaver

Answer 9

speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

Question 10

Palimpset

Answer 10

something that has been changed numerous times but on which traces of former iterations can still be seen

Question 11

Panegyric

Answer 11

a formal expression of praise

Question 12

Parvenu

Answer 12

a person who has suddenly become wealthy, but not socially accepted as a part of a higher class

Question 13

Penurious

Answer 13

miserly

Question 14

Percipient

Answer 14

highly perceptive

Question 15

Peremptory

Answer 15

bossy and domineering

Question 16

Perspicacious

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acutely insightful and wise

Question 17

Peripatetic

Answer 17

traveling by foot

Question 18

Phantasmagorical

Answer 18

illusive; unreal

Question 19

Picayune

Answer 19

trifling or petty (a person)

Question 20

Pilory

Answer 20

ridicule or expose to public scorn

Question 21

Pollyannaish

Answer 21

extremely optimistic

Question 22

Pontificate

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talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner

Question 23

Presentiment

Answer 23

a feeling of evil to come

Question 24

Prognostication

Answer 24

a statement made about the future

Question 25

Propitiate

Answer 25

to placate or appease

Question 26

Proselytize

Answer 26

convert to another religion, philosophy, or perspective

Question 27

Puissant

Answer 27

powerful

Question 28

Quail

Answer 28

draw back, as with fear or pain

Question 29

Quisling

Answer 29

a traitor

Question 30

Raconteur

Answer 30

a person skilled in telling anecdotes

Question 31

Raillery

Answer 31

light teasing

Question 32

Rapprochment

Answer 32

reestablishing of cordial relations

Question 33

Rarefied

Answer 33

make more subtle or refined

Question 34

Remonstrate

Answer 34

to make objections while pleading

Question 35

Ribald

Answer 35

humorously vulgar

Question 36

Saturnine

Answer 36

morose or gloomy

Question 37

Schadenfreude

Answer 37

joy from watching the suffering of others

Question 38

Self-effacing

Answer 38

reluctant to draw attention to yourself

Question 39

Sententious

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to be moralizing, usually in a pompous sense

Question 40

Solicitous

Answer 40

showing hovering attentiveness

Question 41

Solicitude

Answer 41

a feeling of excessive concern

Question 42

Splenetic

Answer 42

very irritable

Question 43

Squelch

Answer 43

suppress or crush completely

Question 44

Stultify

Answer 44

cause one, through routine, to lose energy and enthusiasm

Question 45

Supercilious

Answer 45

haughty and disdainful; looking down on others

Question 46

Surfeit

Answer 46

an excessive amount of something

Question 47

Sybarite

Answer 47

a person who indulges in luxury

Question 48

Turgid

Answer 48

(of language) pompous and tedious

Question 49

Tyro

Answer 49

someone new to a field or activity

Question 50

Unprepossessing

Answer 50

creating an unfavorable or neutral first impression

Question 51

Untoward

Answer 51

unfavorable; inconvenient

Question 52

Untrammeled

Answer 52

not confined or limited

Question 53

Vaunted

Answer 53

highly or widely praised or boasted about

Question 54

Venial

Answer 54

easily excused or forgiven; pardonable

Question 55

Vicissitude

Answer 55

change in one’s circumstances, usually for the worse

Question 56

Vituperate

Answer 56

to criticize harshly; to berate

Question 57

Zeitgeist

Answer 57

spirit of the times