Set 4

Question 0

Chary

Answer 0

Very cautious, wary

Question 1

Chagrin

Answer 1

Mental unease

To bother or vex; mortifying

Question 2

Chide

Answer 2

To scold mildly

Question 3

Choleric

Answer 3

Easily angered

Question 4

Claptrap

Answer 4

Insincere, pretentious or empty language

Question 5

Coltish

Answer 5

Lively and playful; frisky

Question 6

Confabulation

Answer 6

A casual conversation

Question 7

Consanguineous

Answer 7

Of the same lineage or origin

Question 8

Contraband

Answer 8

Goods prohibited by law

Smuggled goods

Question 9

Contrapuntal

Answer 9

Counterpoint in music

Question 10

Contretemps

Answer 10

An unforeseen event that disrupts the normal course of things; an unfortunate occurrence

Question 11

Contrite

Answer 11

Feeling regret and sorrow; penitent

Question 12

Contrived

Answer 12

Obviously planned or calculated; not spontaneous or natural

Question 13

Costive

Answer 13

Slow; sluggish

Constipation

Question 14

Dally

Answer 14

To waste time in voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to trifle

Question 15

Dearth

Answer 15

A scarce supply; a lack

Question 16

Defame

Answer 16

To try to diminish the reputation of

Question 17

Defeasible

Answer 17

Capable of being annulled or invalidated

Question 18

Deify

Answer 18

To make a god of

Question 19

Delimit

Answer 19

To establish the limits of

Question 20

Deluge

Answer 20

A great flood

Question 21

Demarcate

Answer 21

To set the limits of

Question 22

Derogate

Answer 22

To take away; detract

Disparage, belittle

Question 23

Dicey

Answer 23

Fraught with danger

Question 24

Dionysian

Answer 24

Wild, irrational and undisciplined

Question 25

Dispensation

Answer 25

The act of dealing out

Question 26

Dissolute

Answer 26

Lacking moral restraint, indulging in sexual pleasures or vices

Question 27

Divagate

Answer 27

To wander or drift about

Question 28

Dotage

Answer 28

A deterioration of mental faculties

Question 29

Dramaturgy

Answer 29

The art of theatre, especially the writing of plays

Question 30

Dross

Answer 30

Waste or impure matter Worthless, or trivial matter

Question 31

Dyed in the wool

Answer 31

Very strong opinions

Question 32

Ecumenical

Answer 32

Of worldwide scope or applicability

Question 33

Edifice

Answer 33

A building, especially one of imposing appearance or size Abstract structure, a school of thought

Question 34

Effusive

Answer 34

Unrestrained or excessive in emotional expression

Question 35

Egoist

Answer 35

One devoured to one own interests and advancement; an egocentric person

Question 36

Emblematic

Answer 36

Symbolic

Question 37

Evanescence

Answer 37

Vanishing, disappearing

Question 38

Excogitate

Answer 38

To think over thoroughly

Question 39

Exegesis

Answer 39

Critical explanation or analysis

Question 40

Explicate

Answer 40

To explain in great detail

Question 41

Excoriate

Answer 41

To tear the skin off

Question 42

Factotum

Answer 42

n. An employee or assistant who serves in a wide range of capacities.

Question 43

Faux-naif

Answer 43

artificially or affectedly simple or naive.

Question 44

Fealty

Answer 44

n. The fidelity owed by a vassal to his feudal lord. n. The oath of such fidelity. n. Faithfulness; allegiance

Question 45

Feckless

Answer 45

adj. Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective. | adj. Careless and irresponsible.

Question 46

Fettle

Answer 46

n. Proper or sound condition. | n. Mental or emotional state; spirits: was in fine fettle.

Question 47

Fictive

Answer 47

adj. fictional, fanciful or invented

Question 48

Fissile

Answer 48

adj. Possible to split.

Question 49

Flagitious

Answer 49

adj. Extremely brutal or cruel

Question 50

Floe

Answer 50

n. A low, flat mass of floating ice.