Next Top Words O-R

Question 1

Obsequious

Answer 1

Overly submissive and eager to please
The OBSEQUIOUS new associate made sure to compliment her supervisor’s tie and agree with him on every issue.
Related Words:
OBEISANCE: a physical show of submission, such as a bow
Similar Meanings:
COMPLIANT. DEFERENTIAL. SERVILE. SUBSERVIENT.

Question 2

Obstinate

Answer 2

Stubborn, unyielding
The OBSTINATE child could not be made to eat any food that he disliked.
Similar Meanings:
INTRANSIGENT. MULISH. PERSISTENT. PERTINACIOUS. STUBBORN. TENACIOUS.

Question 3

Obviate

Answer 3

To prevent; to make unnecessary
Everything around the house was within walking distance, which OBVIATED the need to own a car.
Similar Meanings:
FORESTALL. PRECLUDE. PROHIBIT.

Question 4

Occlude

Answer 4

To stop up; to prevent the passage of
A shadow is created when light is OCCLUDED by an object, resulting in darkness due to lack of light.
Sim. Meanings:
BARRICADE. BLOCK. CLOSE. OBSTRUCT.

Question 5

Onerous

Answer 5

Troublesome and oppressive; burdensome
The assignment was so extensive and difficult that it proved ONEROUS to the team in charge of it.
Sim. Meanings:
ARDUOUS. BACKBREAKING. BURDENSOME. CUMBERSOME. DIFFICULT. EXACTING. FORMIDABLE. HARD. LABORIOUS. OPPRESSIVE. RIGOROUS. TAXING. TRYING.

Question 6

Opprobrium

Answer 6

Public Disgrace
After the scheme to embezzle from the elderly was made public, the treasurer resigned in utter OPPROBRIUM.
Similar Meanings:
DISCREDIT. DISGRACE. DISHONOR. DISREPUTE. IGNOMINY. INFAMY. OBLOQUY. SHAME.

Question 7

Paragon

Answer 7

Model of excellence or perfection
He is a PARAGON of what a professor should be: intelligent, eloquent, knowledgeable, and hard working.
Similar Meanings:
APOTHEOSIS. IDEAL. QUINTESSENCE. STANDARD.

Question 8

Perfidious

Answer 8

Willing to betray one’s trust
The president’s PERFIDIOUS assistant revealed some of his intimate secrets to the press.
Related Words:
PERFIDY: deceit, treachery
Similar Meanings:
DISLOYAL. FAITHLESS. TRAITOROUS. TREACHEROUS.

Question 9

Perfunctory

Answer 9

Done in a routine way; indifferent
The machinelike bank teller processed the transaction and gave the waiting customer a PERFUNCTORY smile.
Similar Meanings:
APATHETIC. AUTOMATIC. MECHANICAL.

Question 10

Permeate

Answer 10

To penetrate
Related Words:
IMPERMEABLE: unable to be permeated
Similar Meanings:
IMBUE.  INFUSE.  SUFFUSE.

Question 11

Plethora

Answer 11

Excess
Similar Meanings:
GLUT. OVERABUNDANCE. SUPERFLUITY. SURFEIT.

Question 12

Propitiate

Answer 12

To conciliate; to appease
Related Words:
PROPITIOUS: advantageous, favorable
Similar Meanings:
APPEASE.   CONCILIATE.  MOLLIFY.  PACIFY.  PLACATE.

Question 13

Prudence

Answer 13

Wisdom, caution, or restraint
Related Words:
PRUDE: someone who is excessively concerned with propriety
PRUDISH: prissy and puritanical
Similar Meanings:
ASTUTENESS. CIRCUMSPECTION. DISCRETION. FRUGALITY. JUDICIOUSNESS. PROVIDENCE. THRIFT.

Question 14

Pungent

Answer 14

Sharp and irritating to the senses
Similar Meanings:
ACRID. CAUSTIC. PIQUANT. POIGNANT. STINGING.

Question 15

Quiescent

Answer 15

Motionless
Related Words:
QUIESCENCE: state of rest or inactivity
Similar Meanings:
DORMANT.  LATENT.

Question 16

Rarefy

Answer 16

To make thinner or sparser
Related Words:
RAREFACTION: the process of making something less dense
Similar Meanings:
ATTENUATE.  THIN.

Question 17

Repudiate

Answer 17

To reject the validity of
The old woman’s claim that she was Russian royalty was REPUDIATED when DNA tests showed otherwise.
Similar Meanings:
DENY. DISAVOW. DISCLAIM. DISOWN. RENOUNCE.

Question 18

Reticent

Answer 18

Silent, reserved
Physically small and RETICENT in her speech, Joan Didion often went unnoticed by those upon whom she was reporting.
Similar Meanings:
COOL. INTROVERTED. LACONIC. STANDOFFISH. TACITURN. UNDEMONSTRATIVE.

Question 19

Rhetoric

Answer 19

Effective writing or speaking
Lincoln’s talent for RHETORIC was evident in his beautifully expressed Gettysburg address.
Similar Meanings:
ELOQUENCE. ORATORY.