Reading List 6

Question 0

Adumbrate

Answer 0

To sketch out in a vague way

Question 1

Abjure

Answer 1

To reject, renounce

Question 2

Ascetic

Answer 2

Practicing restraint as means of self-discipline, usually religious

Question 3

Brusque

Answer 3

To support, hold up

Question 4

Clemency

Answer 4

Mercy

Question 5

Conundrum

Answer 5

A puzzle, problem

Question 6

Defile

Answer 6

To make uncertain, impure

Question 7

Desecrate

Answer 7

To violate the sacredness of a things or a place

Question 8

Dissemble

Answer 8

To conceal or fake

Question 9

Egregious

Answer 9

Extremely bad

Question 10

Evince

Answer 10

To show or reveal

Question 11

Expunge

Answer 11

To obliterate, eradicate

Question 12

Fatuous

Answer 12

Silly, foolish, stupid

Question 13

Fractious

Answer 13

Troublesome, irritable

Question 14

Hapless

Answer 14

Unlucky, hopeless

Question 15

Ignominious

Answer 15

Shameful, humiliating, disgraceful

Question 16

Impetuous

Answer 16

Rash, hastily done

Question 17

Inconvertible

Answer 17

Indisputable

Question 18

Inimical

Answer 18

Hostile

Question 19

Invective

Answer 19

An angry, verbal attack, diatribe

Question 20

Languid

Answer 20

Sluggish from fatigue or weakness

Question 21

Limpid

Answer 21

Clear, transparent, lucid

Question 22

Manifold

Answer 22

Diverse, varied, multifarious

Question 23

Modicum

Answer 23

A small amount of something

Question 24

Nadir

Answer 24

The lowest point of something

Question 25

Obfuscate

Answer 25

To render incomprehensible

Question 26

Odious

Answer 26

Installing hatred or intense displeasure

Question 27

Pallid

Answer 27

Lacking color

Question 28

Pathos

Answer 28

An emotion of sympathy

Question 29

Perfidious

Answer 29

Disloyal, unfaithful

Question 30

Petulance

Answer 30

Rudeness, irritability

Question 31

Portent

Answer 31

An omen

Question 32

Proclivity

Answer 32

A strong inclination towards something

Question 33

Proscribe

Answer 33

To condemn, outlaw, forbid

Question 34

Pulchritude

Answer 34

Physical beauty

Question 35

Rancor

Answer 35

Deep bitter resentment

Question 36

Reprobate

Answer 36

Evil, unprincipled

Question 37

Ribald

Answer 37

Coarsely and crudely humorous

Question 38

Sagacity

Answer 38

Shrewdness, soundness of perspective

Question 39

Serendipity

Answer 39

Luck, good fortune

Question 40

Spurious

Answer 40

False but designed to seem plausible, dubious

Question 41

Sumrise

Answer 41

To infer with little evidence

Question 42

Tantamount

Answer 42

Equivalent in value or significance

Question 43

Tractable

Answer 43

Easily controlled

Question 44

Turgid

Answer 44

Swollen , excessively embellished in style or language

Question 45

Undulate

Answer 45

To move in waves

Question 46

Vapid

Answer 46

Lacking liveliness, dull

Question 47

Vex

Answer 47

To confuse or annoy

Question 48

Viscous

Answer 48

Not free flowing, syrupy