Vocab

Question 1

Obliquely

Answer 1

Not straight to the point, evasive

Question 2

Balmy

Answer 2

Crazy, foolish, eccentric

Question 3

Chastisement

Answer 3

Punishment

Question 4

Probationer

Answer 4

A person who is training for a position

Question 5

Solicitude

Answer 5

Care or concern

Question 6

Desultory

Answer 6

Disconnected, random

Question 7

Acquiesced

Answer 7

Agree with

Question 8

Forte

Answer 8

The thing a person does well

Question 9

Hypocrisy

Answer 9

Pretending to be what a person is not

Question 10

Stiletto

Answer 10

A small dagger with a thin tapering blade

Question 11

Proxy

Answer 11

The power or authority to act for another

Question 12

Cisterns

Answer 12

A large receptacle for storing water, usually underground

Question 13

Dubiously

Answer 13

Feeling doubt

Question 14

Furtively

Answer 14

Stealthy, done in a way to conceal ones presence

Question 15

Admonitory

Answer 15

Warning

Question 16

Bogus

Answer 16

Not genuine

Question 17

Cosh

Answer 17

A club

Question 18

Exonerated

Answer 18

Declared to be free from guilt or blame

Question 19

Heliographing

Answer 19

Sending a message or signaling

Question 20

Overt

Answer 20

Observable, open

Question 21

Idiosyncrasy

Answer 21

Odd behavior or reaction

Question 22

Perjury

Answer 22

Telling a lie under oath in court

Question 23

Hared

Answer 23

Run fast, go hurriedly

Question 24

Recrimination

Answer 24

Returning an accusation with a countercharge

Question 25

Truncheon

Answer 25

Short thick club

Question 26

Malicious

Answer 26

Malevolent, spiteful

Question 27

Clamber

Answer 27

To climb using both feet and hands

Question 28

Capricious

Answer 28

Change of mind without any apparent reason