Set 9

Question 0

Objurgate

Answer 0

To reproach or denounce vehemently; upbraid harshly; berate sharply

Question 1

Foible

Answer 1

A minor weakness or failing of character; slight flaw or defect

Question 2

Chasten

Answer 2

To inflict suffering upon for purposes of moral improvement; chastise

Question 3

Riddled

Answer 3

Full of

Question 4

Malinger

Answer 4

Exaggerate or feign illness in order to escape duty or work

Question 5

Palisade

Answer 5

A fence made of posts

Question 6

Derision

Answer 6

Ridicule; mockery

Question 7

Contumacious

Answer 7

Stubborn(ly or willfully disobedient to authority)

Question 8

Delusive

Answer 8

Marked by deception; false or delusional

Question 9

Solecism

Answer 9

A nonstandard or outdated grammatical construction; a grammatical mistake

Question 10

Ferment

Answer 10

To stir up, agitate, or cause unrest

Question 11

Seethe

Answer 11

To be violently disturbed; to boil

Question 12

Lurid

Answer 12

Presented in vividly shocking or unnatural terms

Question 13

Equanimity

Answer 13

Steadiness of mind

Question 14

Appurtenance

Answer 14

An accessory or other item associated with a particular activity or style of living

Question 15

Clamber

Clamor

Answer 15

To climb by crawling with difficulties; to creep

To shout

Question 16

Satori

Answer 16

The state in which a person suddenly acquires enlightenment; epiphany

Question 17

Secrete

Answer 17

1. To discharge a secretion

2. To place out of sight; hide; conceal

Question 18

Deciduous

Answer 18

(Of a tree or shrub) shedding it’s leaves annually

Question 19

Recondite

Answer 19

Little known; abstruse; obscure

Question 20

Loquacious and garrulous (vs laconic)

Answer 20

Wordy or talkative (or not talkative)

Question 21

Bereave

Answer 21

To deprive and make desolate

Question 22

Blighted

Answer 22

Damaged; destroyed; ruined

Question 23

Variegated

Answer 23

Multi-colored; speckled

Question 24

Savant

Answer 24

A learned person

Question 25

Deign

Answer 25

To condescend

Question 26

Feral

Answer 26

Costing in a natural state, as animals or plants; not domesticated; wild

Question 27

Salubrious

Answer 27

Health-givingw

Question 28

Pilose

Answer 28

Hairy or furry

Question 29

Punctilious

Answer 29

Paying attention to small details

Question 30

Bilk

Answer 30

To cheat; defraud

Question 31

Minaotory

Answer 31

Expressing or conveying a threat

Question 32

Saturnine

Answer 32

Melancholy

Question 33

Constrain

Answer 33

To force, compel, or oblige To repress or restrain

Question 34

Pusillanimous

Answer 34

Cowardly; craven; timid

Question 35

Refractory

Answer 35

Stubborn or unimaginable

Question 36

Impute

Answer 36

To attribute or ascribe

Question 37

Ardor

Answer 37

Enthusiasm or passion

Question 38

Immure

Answer 38

To imprison or incarcerate

Question 39

Carafe

Answer 39

A large, glass bottle for holding drinkable liquids

Question 40

Misogamy

Answer 40

A hatred of marriage

Question 41

Comestible

Answer 41

Something fit to b eaten; edible

Question 42

Muster

Answer 42

To gather; to assemble or aggregate

Question 43

Access

Answer 43

A sudden outburst, often emotional in nature

Question 44

Fungible

Answer 44

Interchangeable; exchangeable

Question 45

Quittance/quietus

Answer 45

A final acquittance from debt or an obligation

Question 46

Brazen

Answer 46

Insolent; bold

Question 47

Mystic

Answer 47

Hard to understand

Question 48

Tactile

Answer 48

Concerned with the sense of touch

Question 49

Redolent

Answer 49

Having a pleasant odor; fragrant; suggestive or reminiscent

Question 50

Paramour

Answer 50

A lover, especially the illicit partner of a married person

Question 51

Cloture

Answer 51

A method of closing a debate and causing an immediate vote to be taken on the question

Question 52

Pallid

Answer 52

Pale; faint or deficient in color; wan

Question 53

Rancor

Answer 53

Resentment; animosity; bad feeling

Question 54

Prescient

Answer 54

Having fore-knowledge

Question 55

Cornucopia

Answer 55

A symbol denoting natural abundance

Question 56

Anomie

Answer 56

Absence of accepted social values or norms

Question 57

Cupidity

Answer 57

Extreme greed or desire, especially for wealth

Question 58

Putative

Answer 58

Supposed; inconclusively accepted as true

Question 59

Discount

Answer 59

To disregard

Question 60

Sprightly

Answer 60

Lively; animated