Units 6 & 7

Question 0

Bruit

Answer 0

Noise abroad, broadcast, blazon

Question 1

Abortive

Answer 1

Miscarried, fruitless, premature

Question 2

Contumelious

Answer 2

Humiliating, vituperative, scurrilous, excoriating

Question 3

Dictum

Answer 3

Maxim, precept, aphorism, axiom

Question 4

Ensconce

Answer 4

nestle, lodge, entrench

Question 5

Iconoclastic

Answer 5

Image-breaking, irreverent, heretical

Question 6

In medias res

Answer 6

In the middle of things

Question 7

Internecine

Answer 7

Mutually destructive, murderous, savage, ruinous,

Question 8

Maladroit

Answer 8

Inept, awkward, clumsy, gauche

Question 9

Maudlin

Answer 9

Mushy, mawkish

Question 10

Modulate

Answer 10

Temper, soften, adjust, regulate, adapt, moderate

Question 11

Portentous

Answer 11

Pompous, foreboding, ominous, pretentious

Question 12

Prescience

Answer 12

Foresight, foreknowledge

Question 13

Quid pro quo

Answer 13

Swap, trade

Question 14

Salubrious

Answer 14

Wholesome, beneficial, healthy, invigorating

Question 15

Saturnalian

Answer 15

Dissipated, debauched, orgiastic

Question 16

Touchstone

Answer 16

Criterion, yardstick, benchmark

Question 17

Traumatic

Answer 17

Jolting

Question 18

Vitiate

Answer 18

Weaken, debase, corrupt, degrade, undermine

Question 19

Wagging

Answer 19

Droll, whimsical, jocular

Question 20

Abeyance

Answer 20

Suspended, deferment, postponement, suspension

Question 21

Ambivalent

Answer 21

Equivocal, ambiguous, of two minds

Question 22

Beleaguer

Answer 22

Surround, harass, trouble, besiege, encircle, pester

Question 23

Carte Blanche

Answer 23

Blank check, free rein

Question 24

Cataclysm

Answer 24

Deluge, disaster, catastrophe

Question 25

Debauch

Answer 25

Seduce, carouse, spree, orgy

Question 26

Éclat

Answer 26

Great brilliance, celebrity

Question 27

Fastidious

Answer 27

Easily disgusted, precise, meticulous, exacting, finicky

Question 28

Gambol

Answer 28

Frolic, romp, cavort, caper

Question 29

Imbue

Answer 29

Infuse, instill, inculcate

Question 30

Inchoate

Answer 30

Just beginning, incipient, embryonic, rudimentary

Question 31

Lampoon

Answer 31

Satire, satirize, ridicule, burlesque, parody

Question 32

Malleable

Answer 32

Pliable, impressionable, adaptable

Question 33

Nemesis

Answer 33

Unbeaten rival, comeuppance, avenger

Question 34

Opt

Answer 34

Choose, select, decide,

Question 35

Philistine

Answer 35

Boorish, lowbrow, yahoo

Question 36

Picaresque

Answer 36

Roguish, rascally, rakish

Question 37

Queasy

Answer 37

Nauseated, uneasy, troubled, unsettled

Question 38

Refractory

Answer 38

Stubborn, unruly, disobedient, willful, mulish

Question 39

Savoir-faire

Answer 39

Social competence, tact, finesse, suavity, sophistication