New Words (1)

Question 1

Sesquipedalian

Answer 1

A person who likes to use long words or the use of long words

Question 2

Eleemosynary

Answer 2

Charity

Question 3

Lucidity

Answer 3

Clarity or the quality of easily understood

Question 4

Obeisance

Answer 4

1. To make/pay obeisance to someone/something is to acknowledge the person’s/ thing’s superiority or importance. To express deferential respect.
2. To bow

Question 5

Anteambulo

Answer 5

One who clears the path

Question 6

Levity

Answer 6

The treatment of serious matter with humor or lack of respect

Question 7

Katabasis

Answer 7

1. The descent to hell, hardship, suffering or struggle.

2. Military retreat

Question 8

Asphyxiation

Answer 8

Choking, suffocation

Question 9

Sine qua non

Answer 9

An indispensable condition, element or factor. Something essential

Question 10

Appropriate

Answer 10

1. To set aside by legislation for a specific use

2. To take for oneself without permission, steal, seize; take possession of

Question 11

Repudiate

Answer 11

To reject with disapproval and condemnation.

Question 12

Servile

Answer 12

(Disapproval) too eager to obey or do something for someone. Sycophantic

Question 13

Beatific

Answer 13

1. Feeling or expressing blissful happiness.

2. Saintly

Question 14

Epicurean

Answer 14

Having luxurious tastes or habits especially in eating and drinking

Question 15

Cacophany

Answer 15

A harsh discordant mixture of sounds. Noise

Question 16

Sisyphean

Answer 16

Denoting or relating to a task that can never be completed as in Sisyphean task.