Sep. 27

Question 1

Beleaguer

Answer 1

lay seige to

Question 2

Assuage

Answer 2

make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense

Question 3

Amorphous

Answer 3

without a clearly defined shape or form

Question 4

Ameliorate

Answer 4

make (something bad or unsatisfactory) better

Question 5

Acrimonious

Answer 5

(typically of speech or a debate) angry and bitter

Question 6

Extemporaneous

Answer 6

spoken or done without preparation

Question 7

Nefarious

Answer 7

(typically of an action or activity) wicked or criminal

Question 8

Obsequious

Answer 8

obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree

Question 9

Fatuous

Answer 9

silly and pointless

Question 10

Malevolent

Answer 10

having or showing a wish to do evil to others

Question 11

Antithesis

Answer 11

a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else

Question 12

Assonance

Answer 12

in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible (e.g., penitence , reticence )

Question 13

Alliteration

Answer 13

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words