Unit 10

Question 1

Intolerant of denial or opposition

Insisting on immediate response to commands

Answer 1

Peremptory

Question 2

Lasting or continuing throughout the year or years

Lasting through a long, indefinite time

Answer 2

Perennial

Question 3

Responsible for committing an act

Answer 3

Perpetrate

Question 4

To read thoroughly or attentively

To examine thoroughly

Answer 4

Peruse

Question 5

A written statement summoning a person to give testimony in court

Answer 5

Subpoena

Question 6

Any tactic to which one resorts to avoid an issue, escape a consequence, etc

Answer 6

Subterfuge

Question 7

Keen perception of fine distinctions

A fine distinction

Answer 7

Subtlety

Question 8

More than enough

Unnecessary

Answer 8

Superfluous

Question 9

A watch kept over a person especially over a suspect or a prisoner

Answer 9

Surveillance

Question 10

Surpassing others of the same kind

Going beyond ordinary limits

Answer 10

Transcendent

Question 11

To secure by impaling

Answer 11

Transfix

Question 12

Passing away quickly

Not permanent

Staying for a short time

Answer 12

Transient

Question 13

Offensively self-assured in opinion, assertion, or manner

Answer 13

Peremptory

Question 14

To serve with a summons

Answer 14

Subpoena

Question 15

Skillfulness at deceiving others

Answer 15

Subtlety

Question 16

To make motionless as with fascination or terror

Answer 16

Transfix