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Question 1

tacit

Answer 1

(adj.) expressed without words (I interpreted my parents’ refusal to talk as a tacit
acceptance of my request.)

Question 2

taciturn

Answer 2

(adj.) not inclined to talk (Though Jane never seems to stop talking, her brother
is quite taciturn.)

Question 3

tangential

Answer 3

(adj.) incidental, peripheral, divergent (I tried to discuss my salary, but the
boss kept veering off into tangential topics.)

Question 4

tantamount

Answer 4

(adj.) equivalent in value or significance (When it comes to sports, fearing
your opponent is tantamount to losing.)

Question 5

temerity

Answer 5

(n.) audacity, recklessness (Tom and Huck entered the scary cave armed with
nothing but their own temerity.)

Question 6

temperance

Answer 6

(n.) moderation in action or thought (Maintaining temperance will ensure that you are able to think rationally and objectively.)

Question 7

tenable

Answer 7

(adj.) able to be defended or maintained (The department heads tore down the arguments in other people’s theses, but Johari’s work proved to be quite tenable.)

Question 8

tenuous

Answer 8

(adj.) having little substance or strength (Your argument is very tenuous, since
it relies so much on speculation and hearsay.)

Question 9

timorous

Answer 9

(adj.) timid, fearful (When dealing with the unknown, timorous Tallulah
almost always broke into tears.)

Question 10

tirade

Answer 10

(n.) a long speech marked by harsh or biting language (Every time Jessica was late, her boyfriend went into a long tirade about punctuality.)

Question 11

toady

Answer 11

(n.) one who flatters in the hope of gaining favors (The other kids referred to the teacher’s pet as the Tenth Grade Toady.)

Question 12

tome

Answer 12

(n.) a large book (In college, I used to carry around an anatomy book that was the heaviest tome in my bag.)

Question 13

torpid

Answer 13

(adj.) lethargic, dormant, lacking motion (The torpid whale floated, wallowing
in the water for hours.)

Question 14

torrid

Answer 14

(adj.) giving off intense heat, passionate (I didn’t want to witness the neighbor’s
torrid affair through the window.)

Question 15

tortuous

Answer 15

(adj.) winding (The scary thing about driving in mountains are the narrow,
tortuous roads.)

Question 16

tractable

Answer 16

(adj.) easily controlled (The horse was so tractable, Myra didn’t even need a
bridle.)

Question 17

transgress

Answer 17

(v.) to violate, go over a limit (The criminal’s actions transgressed morality and human decency.)

Question 18

transient

Answer 18

(adj.) passing through briefly; passing into and out of existence (Because
virtually everyone in Palm Beach is a tourist, the population of the town is quite
transient.)

Question 19

transmute

Answer 19

(v.) to change or alter in form (Ancient alchemists believed that it was
possible to transmute lead into gold.)

Question 20

tremulous

Answer 20

(adj.) fearful (I always feel a trifle tremulous when walking through
a graveyard.)

Question 21

trenchant

Answer 21

(adj.) effective, articulate, clear-cut (The directions that accompanied my new cell phone were trenchant and easy to follow.)

Question 22

trepidation

Answer 22

(n.) fear, apprehension (Feeling great trepidation, Anya refused to jump into
the pool because she thought she saw a shark in it.)

Question 23

trite

Answer 23

(adj.) not original, overused (Keith thought of himself as being very learned, but
everyone else thought he was trite because his observations about the world were
always the same as David Letterman’s.)

Question 24

truculent

Answer 24

(adj.) ready to fight, cruel (This club doesn’t really attract the dangerous
types, so why was that bouncer being so truculent?)

Question 25

truncate

Answer 25

(v.) to shorten by cutting off (After winning the derby, the jockey truncated
the long speech he had planned and thanked only his mom and his horse.)

Question 26

turgid

Answer 26

(adj.) swollen, excessively embellished in style or language (The haughty writer
did not realize how we all really felt about his turgid prose.)

Question 27

turpitude

Answer 27

(n.) depravity, moral corruption (Sir Marcus’s chivalry often contrasted with the turpitude he exhibited with the ladies at the tavern.)