Top 12 Words (Kaplan)

Question 1

Assuage

Answer 1

to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one’s grief; to assuage one’s pain.

Question 2

Enigma

Answer 2

a puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation

Question 3

Equivocal

Answer 3

allowing the possibility of several different meanings, as a word or phrase, especially with intent to deceive or misguide; susceptible of double interpretation; deliberately ambiguous:

Question 4

Erudite

Answer 4

characterized by great knowledge; learned or scholarly:

Question 5

Fervid

Answer 5

heated or vehement in spirit, enthusiasm, etc

Question 6

Lucid

Answer 6

easily understood; completely intelligible or comprehensible: a lucid explanation.
characterized by clear perception or understanding; rational or sane: a lucid moment in his madness.

Question 7

Opaque

Answer 7

not transparent or translucent; impenetrable to light; not allowing light to pass through.

Question 8

Placate

Answer 8

to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures: to placate an outraged citizenry.

Question 9

Precipitate

Answer 9

to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly

Question 10

Prodigal

Answer 10

wastefully or recklessly extravagant

Question 11

Zeal

Answer 11

fervor for a person, cause, or object; eager desire or endeavor; enthusiastic diligence; ardor.

Question 12

Anomaly

Answer 12

a deviation from the common rule, type, arrangement, or form.