Vocab, batch #4 (1-25)

Question 1

Primordial

Answer 1

existing at the very beginning

Question 2

Pristine

Answer 2

in the original long ago state

Question 3

Puerile

Answer 3

childish

Question 4

Superannuated

Answer 4

advanced in years, very old

Question 5

Venerable

Answer 5

worthy of respect because of advanced age

Question 6

Carryon

Answer 6

decaying flesh of a carcass

Question 7

Dross

Answer 7

waste

Question 8

Expurgate

Answer 8

to get rid of, to purify

Question 9

Offal

Answer 9

waste parts of a butchered animal

Question 10

Slatternly

Answer 10

untidy

Question 11

Sloven

Answer 11

person who is habitually untidy, dirty, or careless

Question 12

Squalid

Answer 12

filthy from regret

Question 13

Contiguous

Answer 13

things that are touching or adjoining

Question 14

Propinquity

Answer 14

kinship

Question 15

Axiom

Answer 15

self-evident truth

Question 16

Cogitate

Answer 16

to think over

Question 17

Eclectic

Answer 17

choosing ideas, methods, etc. from various sources

Question 18

Fallacious

Answer 18

misleading or deceptive

Question 19

Fallible

Answer 19

liable to be mistaken

Question 20

Heterodox

Answer 20

rejecting regularly accepted beliefs or doctrines

Question 21

Indubitable

Answer 21

unquestionable

Question 22

Sophistry

Answer 22

clever but deceptive reasoning

Question 23

Specious

Answer 23

superficially true, reasonable, attractive, or just (but not really)

Question 24

Tenable

Answer 24

capable of being maintained or defended

Question 25

Prelapsarian

Answer 25

before fall of mankind