Section 14-All N's, O's

Question 1

Nadir (n)

Answer 1

low point, perigree

Question 2

Nascent (adj)

Answer 2

coming to being; in early development stages

Question 3

Natty (adj)

Answer 3

neat and tidy; dapper

Question 4

Nebulous (adj)

Answer 4

vague, cloudy, lacking clearly defined form

Question 5

Nebulous (relating to nebula)

Answer 5

body of interstellar dust or gas

Question 6

Neologism (n)

Answer 6

a new word, expression, or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses

Question 7

Neophyte (n)

Answer 7

a recent convert; a beginner; novice

Question 8

tyro

Answer 8

a beginner or novice

Question 9

Nexus (n)

Answer 9

a connection, tie, or link; center or focus

Question 10

Nice (adj)

Answer 10

exacting, extremely or even excessively precise; done with delicacy or skill

Question 11

Noisome (adj)

Answer 11

offensive, especially to one’s sense of small, fetid

Question 12

fetid

Answer 12

smelling extremely unpleasant

Question 13

Nonplussed (adj)

Answer 13

baffled, in a quandry, at a loss for what to say, do or think

Question 14

Nostrum (n)

Answer 14

cure-all, placebo, questionable remedy

Question 15

Noxious (adj)

Answer 15

harmful; injurious

Question 16

Obdurate (adj)

Answer 16

unyielding, hardhearted, inflexible

Question 17

Obeisance (n)

Answer 17

gesture that expresses deference, such as a bow or curtsy

Question 18

Obfuscate (v)

Answer 18

to deliberately obscure, to make confusing

Question 19

obfuscation

Answer 19

something that causes confusion

Question 20

Obsequious (adj)

Answer 20

exhibiting a fawning attentiveness; subservient

Question 21

Obstinate (adj)

Answer 21

stubborn; hardheaded; uncompromising

Question 22

Obstreperous (adj)

Answer 22

noisy, loudly stubborn, boisterous

Question 23

Obtain (v)

Answer 23

to be established, accepted, or customary, prevail

Question 24

Obtuse (adj)

Answer 24

lacking sharpness of intellect, not clear or precise in thought or expression

Question 25

Obviate (v)

Answer 25

to anticipate and make unnecessary

Question 26

Occlude (v)

Answer 26

to obstruct or block

Question 27

Occult (adj) (GRE likely)

Answer 27

hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension

Question 28

Occult (adj)*

Answer 28

of, involving, or relating to supernatural, mystical, or magical powers or phenomena

Question 29

Occult (v)

Answer 29

to hide

Question 30

Odious (adj)

Answer 30

hateful; arousing strong feelings of dislike

Question 31

Officious (adj)

Answer 31

meddlesome, pushy in offering one’s services where they are unwanted

Question 32

Onerous (adj)

Answer 32

troubling, burdensome

Question 33

Opaque (adj)

Answer 33

impermeable by light; dense in mind

Question 34

opacus (Latin)

Answer 34

darkened

Question 35

Opprobrium (n)

Answer 35

disgrace, complex, scorn

Question 36

Oscillation (n)

Answer 36

the act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady, uninterrupted rhythm

Question 37

Oscillate

Answer 37

to move back and forth between two ideas or positions

Question 38

Ossified (adj)

Answer 38

changed into bone; made rigidly conventional and unreceptive to change

Question 39

Obstensible (adj)

Answer 39

seeming, appearing as such, professed

Question 40

Ostentatious (adj)

Answer 40

characterized by or given to pretentiousness

Question 41

Overweening (adj)

Answer 41

presumptuously arrogant, overbearing, immoderate