Section 1

Question 0

Abeyance

Answer 0

Delay or temporary inactivity

Question 1

Aberration

Answer 1

Being different or unusual

Question 2

Acerbic

Answer 2

Sharp/intense/harsh (mood or tone)

Question 3

Acuity

Answer 3

Ability hear, see, or understand easily

Keen in perception

Question 4

Admonish

Answer 4

To urge someone to do something

To express disapproval or criticism

Question 5

Adroit

Answer 5

skillfull/resourceful

Question 6

Aesthete

Answer 6

Someone who recognizes and values beauty

Question 7

Altruistic

Answer 7

Behavior that shows the desire to help others/unselfish

Question 8

Ameliorate

Answer 8

To make something better or less intolerable

Question 9

Amorphous

Answer 9

Having no definite shape or form

Question 10

Antediluvian

Answer 10

Very old or old-fashioned

Primitive or outmoded

Question 11

Apocryphal

Answer 11

Well known but probably untrue

Doubtful

Question 12

Arable

Answer 12

Suitable for farming/relating to growing crops

Question 13

Ascetic

Answer 13

Relating to having strict and simple way of living that avoids physical pleasure/self-denial or discipline

Question 14

Assuage

Answer 14

To make something less intense

Pacify, Ease, Quiet

Question 15

Atrophy

Answer 15

Gradual loss of or decrease in size or progressive decline

body tissues

Question 16

Avarice

Answer 16

Strong desire to have or get money

Question 17

Aviary

Answer 17

A place where birds are kept

Question 18

Avow

Answer 18

To declare or state in an open and public way

Question 19

Bilk

Answer 19

To cheat or trick especially by taking money

Question 20

Broach

Answer 20

Any various pointed tools or implements

Question 21

Buttress

Answer 21

A structure built against a wall in order to support or strengthen it

Question 22

Celerity

Answer 22

A rapidity or motion or action

Question 23

Charlatan

Answer 23

A person who falsely pretends to know or be something in order to deceive others

Question 24

Cherubic

Answer 24

Usually a child depicted as an angel with small wings and a round face and body

Question 25

Churlish

Answer 25

Not polite or difficult to deal with
Vulgar
Surly

Question 26

Circuitous

Answer 26

Indirect, circular course, unclear

Question 27

Clandestine

Answer 27

Done in private/secretly

Question 28

Commensurate

Answer 28

Equal or similar to something in size, amount, or degrees

Proportionate

Question 29

Concomitant

Answer 29

Happening at the same time as something else (especially in an incidental way)