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Question 1

Disarray

Answer 1

Disorder

Question 2

Eclipse

Answer 2

To overshadow

Question 3

Ensue

Answer 3

To follow immediately

Question 4

Bacchanal

Answer 4

A party animal

Question 5

Obtrusive

Answer 5

Interfering; having tendency to but in

Question 6

Fawn

Answer 6

To seek favor through flattery

Question 7

Cant

Answer 7

Insincere or hypocritical

Question 8

Alchemy

Answer 8

A seemingly magical process

Question 9

Motif

Answer 9

A recurring theme

Question 10

Inimitable

Answer 10

Impossible to repeat

Question 11

Galvanize

Answer 11

To startle into sudden

Question 12

Canvass

Answer 12

To seek votes or opinions

Question 13

Advent

Answer 13

Arrival; coming; beginning

Question 14

Morris _____ every kind of cat food except, amazingly, the most expensive brand

Answer 14

Scorns

Question 15

In the lake _____ blue depths lie the keys my father hurled off the deck in a fit of temper a couple of days ago after learning I totaled his car

Answer 15

Serene

Question 16

When the waiter brought Bob the cheese course, Bob stopped his fork just before digging in; the cheese was _____ with maggots

Answer 16

Teeming

Question 17

In the _____ of the rock concert, Bernice was unable to fin her dropped contact lens

Answer 17

Tumult

Question 18

Never throw away old cloths; outdated style inevitably come back to _____

Answer 18

Vogue

Question 19

Congressmen boots political influenced _____ dramatically following his announcement that he had been kidnapped by creatures in a flying saucer

Answer 19

Waned

Question 20

I _____ myself in front of the principal, because I figured I had to in order to keep myself from being expelled

Answer 20

Abased

Question 21

Athletes foot is an _____ that brings great pain and itchiness to its sufferers

Answer 21

Affliction

Question 22

The appearance of the mayor at the dedication ceremony was accidental but _____; his great grandfather donated the land on which the statues had been eradicated

Answer 22

Apposite

Question 23

_____ day commemorated the end of the First World War

Answer 23

Armistice

Question 24

The commanders speech was the product not of bravery but of _____; as soon as the soldiers left the room, he collapsed into tears

Answer 24

Bravado

Question 25

The airliner _____ into several small planes as it taxied towards the terminal

Answer 25

Careened

Question 26

The military police looked for _____ in the luggage of the returning soldiers, and they found plenty of it, including captured enemy weapons and illegal drugs

Answer 26

Contraband

Question 27

The teams enthusiasm for the game _____ as the other team ran up the score

Answer 27

Ebbed

Question 28

The new king celebrated his rise to power by issuing hundreds of _____ governing everything from curbside parking to the wearing of hats

Answer 28

Edicts

Question 29

Some scientists believe that it is completely unsafe to use _____ stem cells from any source in human subjects because they tend to cause tumors.

Answer 29

Embryonic

Question 30

The scandal and the shock of an economic recession would do us enormous harm, which would _____ a terrible financial panic

Answer 30

Ensue

Question 31

In times of war, fear causes some people to _____ their death so their attackers believe them to already be dead

Answer 31

Feign

Question 32

Hal was taken off of death row because the _____ dental records finally proved that he had not murdered his wife, a crime he had been considered guilty of for the last ten years

Answer 32

Forensic

Question 33

The _____ effects that Hurricane Katrina had on our country were innumerable; it is unbelievable to think that people are still out of homes and jobs

Answer 33

Grievous

Question 34

“Kick the bucket” is an _____ that we use in the English language to express that a life has been lost

Answer 34

Idiom

Question 35

Sir Rudolf Bing was an Austrian-born opera _____ who lived his professional life as the General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York from 1950 to 1972

Answer 35

Impresario

Question 36

Underground Hip-Hop was believed to be a marginal genre for a long time because it was not music that mainstream listeners embraced

Question 37

Hard-working seniors can sometimes be considered an oxymoron because these students are eager to graduate but are burnt out with school

Question 38

Jim thought that the large bright light flashing in the night sky was just a very big airplane, but I had a feeling that this was a paranormal sighting that we were witnessing

Question 39

If everyone is suppose to have equal opportunities in our country, why do statistics reveal that there is a preponderance of African Americans in our prison systems?

Question 40

Our valedictorian’s salutation to parents and staff members was hilarious, but the trouble he got into by the administration afterwards proved that it was actually very inappropriate

Question 41

Shibboleth derives from an account in the Hebrew Bible, in which the Ephraimites were distinguished because their dialect lacked “sh” sound

Question 42

Teenagers are often most susceptible to peer pressure because they are a group of individuals who are coming into their own and trying to figure out where they belong

Question 43

I was so excited to get a tan, shop, and hike in Hawaii that I completely forgot this state is an Archipelago