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Question 0

Arbitrary (adj)

Answer 0

1. Based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice • an arbitrary choice
2. (technical) having any value or form, of any degree or extent • an arbitrary function

Question 1

Piquant (adj)

Answer 1

1. Having an agreeably pungent taste
   = savoury, spicy, zesty
2. Engagingly stimulating or provocative • a piquant wit
   = salty
3. Attracting or delighting • a piquant face with large appealing eyes
   = engaging

Question 2

Sobriquet (n)

Answer 2

A familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person’s given name) • Joe’s mother would not use his sobriquet and always called him Joseph
= byname, cognomen, monicker, moniker, nickname, soubriquet

Question 3

Denote (v)

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1. Be a sign or indication of • Her smile denoted that she agreed
   ~ denominate, designate
2. Have as a meaning • ‘multi-‘ denotes ‘many’
   = refer
   ⇒ apply
3. Make known; make an announcement • She denoted her feelings clearly
   = announce

Question 4

Phosphorescent (adj)

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Emitting light without appreciable heat as by slow oxidation of phosphorous • the phosphorescent glow of decaying wood
≈ light

Question 5

Predispose (v)

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Make susceptible • This illness predisposes you to gain weight
~ dispose, incline

Question 6

Corpulent (adj)

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Excessively fat • a corpulent man

= lardy, obese, rotund, weighty

Question 7

Florid (adj)

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1. Elaborately or excessively ornamented • the senator’s florid speech
   = aureate, flamboyant
   ≈ fancy
2. Inclined to a healthy reddish colour often associated with outdoor life • Santa’s florid cheeks
   = rubicund, ruddy, sanguine
   ≈ healthy

Question 8

Avow (v)

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1. To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true • Before God I avow I am innocent
   = affirm, assert, aver, swan, swear, verify
2. Admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about
   = avouch

Question 9

Archaic (adj)

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1. So extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period • archaic laws
   = antediluvian, antiquated
2. Little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type • archaic forms of life
   = primitive

Question 10

Highfalutin (adj)

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Affectedly genteel, marked by refinement in taste and manners • It might be a bit of an artsy lifestyle, but it’s not highfalutin
= grandiose, la-de-da

Question 11

Proponent (n)

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A person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea

=advocate, advocator

Question 12

Expounds (v)

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To state • to expound one’s reasons

Question 13

Nebuchadnezzar (n)

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A very large wine bottle holding the equivalent of 20 normal bottles of wine; used especially for display.

Question 14

Incredulous (adj)

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Not disposed or willing to believe; unbelieving • the movie’s unlikely happy ending came to pass as the result of an incredulous series of lucky accidents

Question 15

Indolent (adj)

Answer 15

Lazy

Question 16

Putrefaction (v)

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To rot

Question 17

Precocious (adj)

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Characterized by/characteristic of exceptionally early development or maturity (especially in mental aptitude) • a precocious child • a precocious achievement

Question 18

Forage (n)

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1. Bulky food like grass or hay for grazing horses

2. The act of searching for food and provisions

Question 19

Spur (n)

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Anything that inspires, motivates or drives you to do something
=prod, prodding, goad, goading

Question 20

Sundry (adj)

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Miscellaneous • sundry sciences commonly known as social

Question 21

Scope (v)

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To evaluate, measure

Question 22

Haste (n)

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1. Precipitation • he soon regretted his haste
2. Hurry • in his haste he forgot his book
   3, a condition of urgency making it necessary to move/act fast; hurry

Question 23

Seminary (n)

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1. A private school of education for the young

2. A theological school for training ministers, priests or rabbis; a religious school

Question 24

Oblique (adj)

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1. Slanting or inclined in direction or course or position - neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled • acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles
2. Indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading • gave oblique answers to direct questions; devious;

Question 25

Momentum (n)

Answer 25

1. Impulse • the car’s momentum carried it off the road
2. the product of a body’s mass and its velocity
3. enough activity to e=keep going; capacity for further growth • the campaign is gaining momentum
   =steam

Question 26

Tumult (n)

Answer 26

1. A state of commotion, noise, and confusion; uproar;
2. violent agitation, turmoil
3. the act of making a noisy disturbance; a commotion;

Question 27

Deployment (n)

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1. The distribution of forces in preparation for battle or work;

Question 28

Agitate (v)

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1. try to stir up public opinion
2. cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; charge up;
3. be an advocate for; • she is agitating for women’s rights
4. move very slightly • he agitated in his seat; to budge
5. to shake
   6, to disturb, to vex;

Question 29

Tranquilly (adv)

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Without emotional agitation • tranquilly she went on with her work

Question 30

Vicissitude (n)

Answer 30

1. A variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something • the project was subject to usual vicissitudes of exploratory research
2. Mutability in life or nature