misc.

Question 1

boorish

Answer 1

rough, coarse, bad-mannered, uncouth, rude

Question 2

homophily

Answer 2

tendency of people to seek out or be attracted to those who are similar to themselves

Question 3

winsome

Answer 3

attractive or appealing in appearance or character

Question 4

animus

Answer 4

hostility

Question 5

orthogonal

Answer 5

statistically independent

Question 6

antepenultimate

Answer 6

third from last

Question 7

abnegation

Answer 7

the act of rejecting something; self-denial

Question 8

asceticism

Answer 8

severe self-discipline and avoidance of all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons

Question 9

multivariate

Answer 9

several

Question 10

multifarious

Answer 10

several and of varying types

Question 11

meretricious

Answer 11

apparently attractive but having in reality no value or integrity

synonyms = tawdry, garish

Question 12

surrogate

Answer 12

substitute

Question 13

deputize

Answer 13

stand in for

Question 14

dalliance

Answer 14

1 - casual romantic/sexual relationship

2 - brief or casual involvement with something

Question 15

reverie

Answer 15

state of being lost in one’s thoughts; a daydream

Question 16

anodyne

Answer 16

inoffensive, bland, neutral

Question 17

mellifluous

Answer 17

(of a voice or words) sweet or musical; pleasant to the ear

Question 18

apophenia

Answer 18

tendency to see patterns and meaning in random info.