Set 3

Question 0

Abstruse

Answer 0

Difficult to understand, recondite

Question 1

Analeptic

Answer 1

Restorative or stimulating; as a drug or medication

Question 2

Accord

Answer 2

Agreement; harmony

Question 3

Acculteration

Answer 3

A process in which a culture of an isolated society changes on contact with a different one; especially a more advanced society.

Question 4

Adjudicate

Answer 4

To hear and settle

Question 5

Adulatory

Answer 5

Overly flattering

Question 6

Agglomerate

Answer 6

A confused jumbled mass; a heap

Question 7

Aggrieved

Answer 7

Feeling distressed or affliction

Treated wrongly

Question 8

Agrarian

Answer 8

Related to or concerning the land, cultivation and tenure

Agriculture or rural

Question 9

Aleatory

Answer 9

Dependent on chance, luck or uncertain outcome

Question 10

Anathema

Answer 10

A ban or curse or excommunication

Question 11

Ecclesiastical

Answer 11

Of or relating to a chrurch

Question 12

Anomie

Answer 12

Social instability caused by erosion of standards and values

Question 13

Antithetical

Answer 13

Directly opposed

Question 14

Apologia

Answer 14

A formal defense or justification

Question 15

Apologists

Answer 15

A person who argues in defense or justification of something

Question 16

Apportion

Answer 16

To divide and distribute

Question 17

Approbation

Answer 17

An expression of warm approval

Question 18

Ardor

Answer 18

Fierce intensity of feeling

Question 19

Arrant

Answer 19

Complete and utter

Question 20

Asseveration

Answer 20

An earnest affirmation or declaration of support

Question 21

Assiduousness

Answer 21

Conscientious and unremitting diligence

Question 22

Autodidact

Answer 22

A self taught person

Question 23

Aver

Answer 23

To affirm positively

Question 24

Rancorous

Answer 24

Characterized by bitterness or resentment

Question 25

Volition

Answer 25

The capacity to use ones own free will

Question 26

Desuetude

Answer 26

A state of disuse

Question 27

Argot

Answer 27

The slang of a particular group

Question 28

Lodestar

Answer 28

One that serves as an inspiration, model or guide

Question 29

Subterfuge

Answer 29

Deceit used in order to achieve ones goal

Question 30

Bald

Answer 30

Empirically unsupported

Question 31

Balkanize

Answer 31

To divide a territory into small, hostile states

Question 32

Ballast

Answer 32

Something that gives stability especially in character

Question 33

Bane full

Answer 33

Causing harm ruin or death

Question 34

Barbarous

Answer 34

Primitive in culture and customs uncivilized Lacking refinement or culture; coarse

Question 35

Baroque

Answer 35

Extravagant, complex or bizarre

Question 36

Bedlam

Answer 36

A place or situation of noisy uproar and confusion

Question 37

Beguile

Answer 37

To deceive or delude

Question 38

Belletristic

Answer 38

Written and regarded for aesthetic value rather than content

Question 39

Bellicose

Answer 39

Warlike or hostile in manner or temperament

Question 40

Besmirch

Answer 40

To stain, sully

Question 41

Besotted

Answer 41

Infatuated

Question 42

Blandishments

Answer 42

Flattering speech or actions designed to persuade or influence

Question 43

Blather

Answer 43

Nonsensical talk

Question 44

Boondoggle

Answer 44

An unnecessary or wasteful project or activity

Question 45

Bootless

Answer 45

Without advantage or benefit; useless

Question 46

Cad

Answer 46

A man whose behavior is unprincipled or dishonorable

Question 47

Canonization

Answer 47

Making someone a saint for perpetual veneration and invocation

Question 48

Capitulatory

Answer 48

Briefly stated

Question 49

Catharsis

Answer 49

A release of emotional tension

Question 50

Celerity

Answer 50

Swiftness of action or motion; speed