New Words (2)

Question 1

Coalesce

Answer 1

1. To come together to form mass or body.

2. To grow together

Question 2

Teeming

Answer 2

1. To be full of people or somethings

2. To become pregnant.

Question 3

Felicity

Answer 3

1. The state of being happy as in marital or parental felicity.
2. The ability to find the appropriate words for one’s thought. An aptness of expression

Question 4

Appraisal

Answer 4

The act of assessing someone or something

Question 5

Segue

Answer 5

To make a transition from one thing to another without interruption.

Note: Segue into “ “

Question 6

Quagmire

Answer 6

A difficult, awkward, complicated, complex situation

Question 7

Anodyne

Answer 7

1. (Disapproval) Not likely to cause offense or disagreement as in anodyne affairs or statement.
2. Relieving pain
3. A medicine that alleviates pain

Question 8

Pernicious

Answer 8

Having harmful effect especially in a gradual or subtle way. Causing insidious harm as in pernicious lie, pernicious influence etc

Question 9

Litany

Answer 9

A tedious recital as in a litany of complaints

Question 10

Drawback

Answer 10

A hindrance or disadvantage; an undesirable or objectionable feature

Question 11

Peregrination

Answer 11

A long journey usually by foot.

Question 12

Precepts

Answer 12

Commandments; a general rule

Question 13

Pathos

Answer 13

A quality that evokes pity or sadness

Question 14

Ennui

Answer 14

The feeling of being tired, bored and dissatisfied arising from a lack of occupation and excitement.

Question 15

Fraught

Answer 15

1. Difficult, worrisome as in a fraught situation or fraught day
2. (A situation or a course of action) is filled with or likely to result in something undesirable as in fraught with danger.

Question 16

Concomitant

Answer 16

Naturally accompanied or associated with something as in life with its concomitant struggles.