Midterm

Question 0

(N) trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry

Answer 0

Chicanery

Question 1

(Adj) to assert/declare without proof.

Answer 1

Alleged

Question 2

(Adj) overflowing with enthusiasm or excitement

Answer 2

Ebullient

Question 3

(N) shameless or impudent boldness; arrogant

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Effrontery

Question 4

(Adj) to notice and make much of of trivial faults; hard to please.

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Captious

Question 5

(Adj) beginning to exist of appear.

Answer 5

Incipient

Question 6

(Adj) extremely wicked or villainous

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Nefarious

Question 7

(N) outcast

Answer 7

Pariah

Question 8

(Adj) hard to understand

Answer 8

Abstruse

Question 9

(N) a false report or story; a belief or rumor that is not true.

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Canard

Question 10

(Adj) very well suited or expressed; appropriate

Answer 10

Felicitous

Question 11

(Adj) of, relating to, or like a pig.

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Porcine

Question 12

(Adj) recurring everyday; daily

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Diurnal

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(Adj) not firm or stiff; lacking strength or force; flappy.

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Flaccid

Question 14

(Adj) not able to be proved wrong; can’t be argued

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Irrefutable

Question 15

(N) a (usually small) group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose.

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Coterie

Question 16

(Adj) based on something that is not true or real; unreal; false

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Illusory

Question 17

(Adj) routine; something done without energy or enthusiasm- habitually; going through the motions

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Perfunctory