Part 4

Question 1

Motivation

Answer 1

What “drives” a person

Question 2

Mundane

Answer 2

Boring and normal

Question 3

Mutable

Answer 3

Something that is easy to or likely to change

Question 4

Mystify

Answer 4

To confuse

Question 5

Net

Answer 5

What is left after subtraction

Question 6

Notation

Answer 6

Something you write to help remember something or to convey info to another person

Question 7

Nuance

Answer 7

A subtle difference in the meaning or expression of something

Question 8

Null

Answer 8

Nothing

Question 9

Obliterate

Answer 9

To completely and utterly destroy something beyond recognition

Question 10

Obstinate

Answer 10

Stubborn

Question 11

Oscillate

Answer 11

To move back and forth in a predictable pattern at a set speed

Question 12

Onerous

Answer 12

Something that is difficult to do

Question 13

Panacea

Answer 13

A fix-all solution

Question 14

Parasitic

Answer 14

Something that attaches to something else and feeds off it without giving anything back

Question 15

Parity

Answer 15

Equalness

Question 16

Paradox

Answer 16

Something that contradicts itself or sets up an impossible train of thought that never ends but always circles back on itself

Question 17

Partake

Answer 17

Participate

Question 18

Paternal

Answer 18

To act in a fatherly way. Also used to describe things related to fathers

Question 19

Permeate

Answer 19

To soak through something, invading and saturating every part of it and leaving nothing untouched

Question 20

Permutation

Answer 20

All the different ways a set of items can be arranged in different orders

Question 21

Perpetual

Answer 21

Never ending

Question 22

Perspective

Answer 22

How you see things both literally and figuratively

Question 23

Perturb

Answer 23

To disturb emotionally

Question 24

Pervading

Answer 24

Permeate

Question 25

Phenomena

Answer 25

Something that is known to exist or occur, the cause of which is often not clear.

Question 26

Pittance

Answer 26

A pitiably small amount

Question 27

Plasticity

Answer 27

The ability to change and be molded

Question 28

Plenipotentiary

Answer 28

A person who has been given the authority to act on behalf of their country in foreign countries

Question 29

Posterity

Answer 29

The future of humankind

Question 30

Postulate

Answer 30

To guess or to present an idea that isn’t proven

Question 31

Potent

Answer 31

Very strong. Not physically but if a high concentration

Question 32

Prattle

Answer 32

To talk in and in while saying little of value

Question 33

Predecessor

Answer 33

What came before

Question 34

Preposterous

Answer 34

So ridiculous as to be laughable

Question 35

Primitive

Answer 35

Very basic and not technologically advanced

Question 36

Pristine

Answer 36

Untouched and perfect

Question 37

Proliferate

Answer 37

To grow, spread, and reproduce, often as a high rate of speed

Question 38

Promulgate

Answer 38

To spread an idea around

Question 39

Province

Answer 39

A geographical area under a government

Question 40

Proxy

Answer 40

A substitute

Question 41

Psychological

Answer 41

Having to do with the inner workings of our minds

Question 42

Quarrel

Answer 42

To argue with someone

Question 43

Rapacious

Answer 43

Unable to be satisfied

Question 44

Receptive

Answer 44

Open to receiving things

Question 45

Redress

Answer 45

To fix or make a situation right where someone has been wronged

Question 46

Reluctant

Answer 46

To act on the feeling of not wanting to do something

Question 47

Remonstrate

Answer 47

Object to something strongly

Question 48

Repression

Answer 48

The act of holding something down or back

Question 49

Reverence

Answer 49

Showing great respect or a deep appreciation for something

Question 50

Rhetoric

Answer 50

The way in which people speak and argue to convey their points