March 28

Question 1

Inchoate

Answer 1

just begun and so not fully formed or developed; rudimentary.

Question 2

Inveterate

Answer 2

having a particular habit, activity, or interest that is long-established and unlikely to change.

Question 3

Perspicacity

Answer 3

the quality of having a ready insight into things; shrewdness.

Question 4

Rectitude

Answer 4

morally correct behavior or thinking; righteousness.

Question 5

Surreptitious

Answer 5

kept secret, esp. because it would not be approved of.

Question 6

Maladroit

Answer 6

ineffective or bungling; clumsy.

Question 7

Turgid

Answer 7

1. Swollen and distended or congested.

2. (of language or style) tediously pompous or bombastic.

Question 8

Ascetic

Answer 8

characterized by or suggesting the practice of severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons.

Question 9

Misogyny

Answer 9

the hatred of women.

Question 10

Bourgeois

Answer 10

of or characteristic of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes.

Question 11

Acerbic

Answer 11

(esp. of a comment or style of speaking) sharp and forthright.

Question 12

Prurient

Answer 12

having or encouraging an excessive interest in sexual matters.