Verbal Advantage

Question 1

Commodious

kə-mode-əs

Answer 1

Spacious; roomy.

Question 2

Trenchant

Answer 2

Forceful, effective, and vigorous.

A trenchant argument

Question 3

Chimera

Answer 3

1. Foolishly fancy.

2. A fanciful mental illusion or fabrication

Question 4

Eschew

es-choo

Answer 4

To avoid; shun.

Question 5

Senescent

Answer 5

Growing old; aging.

Question 6

Assiduous

Answer 6

1. Constant in application or attention; diligent.

2. Unceasing; persistent.

Question 7

Strident

Answer 7

Loud, harsh, grating, or shrill; discordant.

Synonyms: loud, vociferous.

Question 8

Alacrity

Answer 8

1. Cheerful willingness; eagerness.

2. Speed or quickness; celerity.

Question 9

Spurious

Answer 9

1. Lacking authenticity or validity in essence or origin; not genuine.
2. Of illegitimate birth.

Question 10

Umbrage

Answer 10

Offense; resentment: took umbrage at their rudeness.

Question 11

Pedestrian

Answer 11

Undistinguished; ordinary: pedestrian prose.

Question 12

Unctuous

Answer 12

Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness.

Question 13

Tractable

Answer 13

Easily managed or controlled; governable.

Question 14

Apocryphal

Answer 14

Of questionable authorship or authenticity.

Question 15

Parsimonious

Answer 15

Excessively sparing or frugal; stingy.

Question 16

Dilatory

Answer 16

1. Intended to delay.

2. Tending to postpone or delay: dilatory in his work habits.

Question 17

Noisome

Answer 17

Offensive to the point of arousing disgust; foul: a noisome odor.

Question 18

Complaisant

Answer 18

Exhibiting a desire or willingness to please; cheerfully obliging.

Question 19

Fugacious

Fyoo-ga-shəs

Answer 19

Passing away quickly; evanescent.

Question 20

Minatory

Answer 20

Of a menacing or threatening nature; minacious.

Question 21

Flagitious

(flə-jishəs

Answer 21

Characterized by extremely brutal or cruel crimes; vicious.

Infamous; scandalous.

Question 22

Aleatory

a-lee-ə-tore-e

Answer 22

Dependent on chance, luck, or an uncertain outcome: an aleatory contract between an oil prospector and a landowner.

Question 23

Obloquy

Answer 23

1. Abusively detractive language or utterance; calumny: “I have had enough obloquy for one lifetime.”
2. The condition of disgrace suffered as a result of abuse or vilification; ill repute.

Question 24

Farrago

Answer 24

An assortment or a medley; a conglomeration.

Question 25

Hebetude

Answer 25

Dullness of the mind; mental lethargy.

Question 26

Deipnosophist

Answer 26

1. A person who is a master of dinner-table conversation.

2. Conversationalist.

Question 27

Fulmination

Answer 27

To issue a thunderous verbal attack or denunciation: fulminated against political chicanery.

Question 28

Crepuscular

Answer 28

Or or like twilight; dim.

Question 29

Tergiversate

Ter-jiv-er-sate

Answer 29

To use evasions or ambiguities; equivocate.

Question 30

Sciamachy

sə-match-ee

Answer 30

A fight with an imaginary enemy.

Question 31

Glabrous

Gla-brəs

Answer 31

Having no hairs, projections, or pubescence; smooth: a glabrous scalp; glabrous leaves.

Question 32

Stipulate

Answer 32

To lay down as a condition of an agreement; require by contract.

Question 33

Dissemble

Answer 33

To disguise or conceal behind a false appearance.