Verbal section 4

Question 1

adroit

Answer 1

clever or skillful in using the hands or mind.

Question 2

surreptitious

Answer 2

kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of.

Question 3

facetious

Answer 3

treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant.

Question 4

magnate

Answer 4

a wealthy and influential person, especially in business.

Question 5

recompense

Answer 5

make amends to (someone) for loss or harm suffered; compensate.

compensation or reward given for loss or harm suffered or effort made.

Question 6

confidant

Answer 6

a person with whom one shares a secret or private matter, trusting them not to repeat it to others.

Question 7

axiom

Answer 7

a statement or proposition which is regarded as being established, accepted, or self-evidently true.

Question 8

edict

Answer 8

an official order or proclamation issued by a person in authority.

Question 9

amenable

Answer 9

(of a person) open and responsive to suggestion; easily persuaded or controlled.

(of a thing) capable of being acted upon in a particular way; susceptible to.

Question 10

indomitable

Answer 10

impossible to subdue or defeat.

Question 11

requisite

Answer 11

made necessary by particular circumstances or regulations.

Question 12

fallacious

Answer 12

based on a mistaken belief.

Question 13

genteel

Answer 13

polite, refined, or respectable, often in an affected or ostentatious way.

Question 14

imprudent

Answer 14

not showing care for the consequences of an action; rash.

Question 15

pilfer

Answer 15

steal (typically things of relatively little value).

Question 16

vanquish

Answer 16

defeat thoroughly.

Question 17

perjury

Answer 17

the offense of willfully telling an untruth in a court after having taken an oath or affirmation.