Vocab

Question 1

bombastic

Answer 1

high-sounding but with little meaning; inflated.

Question 2

chauvinistic

Answer 2

displaying excessive or prejudiced support for their own cause, group, or sex

Question 3

jingoistic

Answer 3

Extreme nationalism characterized especially by a belligerent foreign policy

Question 4

acrimonious

Answer 4

angry and bitter

Question 5

carping

Answer 5

difficult to please; critical.

Question 6

didactic

Answer 6

intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive

Question 7

facetious

Answer 7

treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant

Question 8

nefarious

Answer 8

negative

Question 9

seditious

Answer 9

nciting or causing people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch

Question 10

mawkish

Answer 10

sentimental in an exaggerated or false way

Question 11

sycophantic

Answer 11

behaving or done in an obsequious way in order to gain advantage.

Question 12

obsequious

Answer 12

obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree

Question 13

assuage

Answer 13

make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense

Question 14

harangue

Answer 14

lecture (someone) at length in an aggressive and critical manner

Question 15

obviate

Answer 15

remove (a need or difficulty).

Question 16

prevaricate

Answer 16

speak or act in an evasive way.

Question 17

rescind

Answer 17

revoke, cancel, or repeal (a law, order, or agreement).

Question 18

phlagmatic

Answer 18

(of a person) having an unemotional and stolidly calm disposition

Question 19

dissemble

Answer 19

conceal or disguise one’s true feelings or beliefs.

Question 20

duplicitious

Answer 20

deceitfu

Question 21

maudlin

Answer 21

self-pityingly or tearfully sentimenta

Question 22

castigate

Answer 22

reprimand (someone) severely

Question 23

sardonic

Answer 23

grimly mocking or cynical

Question 24

churlish

Answer 24

rude in a mean-spirited and surly way

Question 25

cogent

Answer 25

(of an argument or case) clear, logical, and convincing

Question 26

repudiate

Answer 26

refuse to accept

Question 27

disavow

Answer 27

to deny responsibility

Question 28

aposiopesis

Answer 28

author's suddenly stopping a piece of writing or speech for emphasis

Question 29

anomie/anomic

Answer 29

social instability, caused by erosion of values/standards

Question 30

iconoclasm

Answer 30

first one refers to the destruction of a culture's own religious icons, but the second (which is far more interesting imo) refers to the overthrowing or breaking of traditional ideas and conventions

Question 31

vacuous

Answer 31

To have a lack of thought or intelligence.

Question 32

ethos

Answer 32

a character or spirit of a culture, movement, era, community or person.

Question 33

mollification

Answer 33

to lessen in intensity

Question 34

deleterious

Answer 34

causing harm or damage

Question 35

obfuscate

Answer 35

make obscure, unclear

Question 36

circumscribe

Answer 36

restrict

Question 37

lachrymose

Answer 37

tearful, given to weeping

Question 38

high-sounding but with little meaning; inflated.

Answer 38

bombastic

Question 39

displaying excessive or prejudiced support for their own cause, group, or sex

Answer 39

chauvinistic

Question 40

Extreme nationalism characterized especially by a belligerent foreign policy

Answer 40

jingoistic

Question 41

angry and bitter

Answer 41

acrimonious

Question 42

difficult to please; critical.

Answer 42

carping

Question 43

intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive

Answer 43

didactic

Question 44

treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant

Answer 44

facetious

Question 45

negative

Answer 45

nefarious

Question 46

nciting or causing people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch

Answer 46

seditious

Question 47

sentimental in an exaggerated or false way

Answer 47

mawkish

Question 48

behaving or done in an obsequious way in order to gain advantage.

Answer 48

sycophantic

Question 49

obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree

Answer 49

obsequious

Question 50

make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense

Answer 50

assuage

Question 51

lecture (someone) at length in an aggressive and critical manner

Answer 51

harangue

Question 52

remove (a need or difficulty).

Answer 52

obviate

Question 53

speak or act in an evasive way.

Answer 53

prevaricate

Question 54

revoke, cancel, or repeal (a law, order, or agreement).

Answer 54

rescind

Question 55

(of a person) having an unemotional and stolidly calm disposition

Answer 55

phlagmatic

Question 56

conceal or disguise one's true feelings or beliefs.

Answer 56

dissemble

Question 57

deceitfu

Answer 57

duplicitious

Question 58

self-pityingly or tearfully sentimenta

Answer 58

maudlin

Question 59

reprimand (someone) severely

Answer 59

castigate

Question 60

grimly mocking or cynical

Answer 60

sardonic

Question 61

rude in a mean-spirited and surly way

Answer 61

churlish

Question 62

(of an argument or case) clear, logical, and convincing

Answer 62

cogent

Question 63

refuse to accept

Answer 63

repudiate

Question 64

to deny responsibility

Answer 64

disavow

Question 65

author's suddenly stopping a piece of writing or speech for emphasis

Answer 65

aposiopesis

Question 66

social instability, caused by erosion of values/standards

Answer 66

anomie/anomic

Question 67

first one refers to the destruction of a culture's own religious icons, but the second (which is far more interesting imo) refers to the overthrowing or breaking of traditional ideas and conventions

Answer 67

iconoclasm

Question 68

To have a lack of thought or intelligence.

Answer 68

vacuous

Question 69

a character or spirit of a culture, movement, era, community or person.

Answer 69

ethos

Question 70

to lessen in intensity

Answer 70

mollification

Question 71

causing harm or damage

Answer 71

deleterious

Question 72

make obscure, unclear

Answer 72

obfuscate

Question 73

restrict

Answer 73

circumscribe

Question 74

tearful, given to weeping

Answer 74

lachrymose

Question 75

egregious

Answer 75

outsandingly bad; shocking