vocabulary

Question 1

efflorescence

Answer 1

time & process of budding, unfolding of blooms

Question 2

enmity

Answer 2

intense hostility antagonism

Question 3

decorous

Answer 3

dignified, proper, of good taste

Question 4

chorister

Answer 4

singer, choir boy

Question 5

bastion

Answer 5

a well fortified position

Question 6

hiatus

Answer 6

break or pause

Question 7

ebullience

Answer 7

cheerful, full of energy

Question 8

recrimination

Answer 8

accusation response to someone

Question 9

tumult

Answer 9

disturbance

Question 10

triade

Answer 10

long, angry speech of criticism

Question 11

oppressive

Answer 11

person in position of power and uses it wrongly

Question 12

inscrutable

Answer 12

mysterious

Question 13

vicissitudes

Answer 13

difficult times

Question 14

declivities

Answer 14

slopping down rather steeply

Question 15

tacit

Answer 15

implied or understood without a question

Question 16

blatant

Answer 16

totally or offensively obvious

Question 17

taboo

Answer 17

excluded or forbidden

Question 18

sinewy

Answer 18

lean and muscular, stingy, tough

Question 19

malevolently

Answer 19

ill will to others

Question 20

ludicrous

Answer 20

foolish people, absurd

Question 21

ineffectual

Answer 21

useless

Question 22

jeer

Answer 22

abuse verbally , mock

Question 23

inarticulate

Answer 23

unable to speak clearly

Question 24

leviathan

Answer 24

very long, sea creature

Question 25

clamor

Answer 25

loud outcry

Question 26

mutinously

Answer 26

unruly, mutanous

Question 27

crestfallen

Answer 27

depressed

Question 28

impervious

Answer 28

not capable of being penatrated

Question 29

enterprise

Answer 29

undertaking, business organization

Question 30

glowered

Answer 30

looked, stared at angerly

Question 31

rebuked

Answer 31

criticized sharply

Question 32

demure

Answer 32

modest, reserved in behavior

Question 33

fevor

Answer 33

get intensity or emotion, heat

Question 34

corpulent

Answer 34

excessively fat

Question 35

sauntered

Answer 35

leisurely walk, stroll

Question 36

compelled

Answer 36

force or drive, a strong force

Question 37

luminous

Answer 37

emitting light, full of light

Question 38

myopis

Answer 38

nearsightedness

Question 39

sniveling

Answer 39

sniffling, complaining, whine

Question 40

quavered

Answer 40

trembled, spoke in trembles

Question 41

parried

Answer 41

deflected or warded off

Question 42

talisman

Answer 42

object with magical power

Question 43

acrid

Answer 43

unpleasantly sharp, bitter taste or smell

Question 44

cordon

Answer 44

flight of ships or people to guard

Question 45

elephantine

Answer 45

size of an elephant, enormous in size or strength

Question 46

epaulettes

Answer 46

fringed strap worn on a military uniform