Week 12

Question 1

Savvy

Answer 1

Well informed or perceptive

Question 2

Staid

Answer 2

Characterized by dignity and propriety

Question 3

Travail

Answer 3

Use of physical or mental energy; hard work; agony or anguish

Question 4

Uncanny

Answer 4

Suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; surpassing the ordinary or normal

Question 5

Unseemly

Answer 5

Not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society

Question 6

Wanton

Answer 6

Without check or limitation; showing no moral restraints to one’s anger, desire, or appetites

Question 7

Retiring

Answer 7

To be shy, and to be inclined to retract from company

Question 8

Flush

Answer 8

To be in abundance

Question 9

Demure

Answer 9

To be modest and shy

Question 10

Moment

Answer 10

Significant and important value

Question 11

Start

Answer 11

To suddenly move in a particular direction

Question 12

Imponderable

Answer 12

Impossible to estimate or figure out

Question 13

Chauvinist

Answer 13

A person who believes in the superiority of their group

Question 14

Virago

Answer 14

An ill tempered or violet woman

Question 15

Pine

Answer 15

To yearn for

Question 16

Pittance

Answer 16

A small amount (of money)

Question 17

Underwrite

Answer 17

To support financially

Question 18

Serendipity

Answer 18

The instance in which an accidental, fortunate discovery is made

Question 19

Peruse

Answer 19

To read very carefully

Question 20

Heyday

Answer 20

The pinnacle or top of a time period or career

Question 21

Thoroughgoing

Answer 21

Very thorough, complete

Question 22

Abysmal

Answer 22

Extremely bad

Question 23

Antedate

Answer 23

Precede in time

Question 24

Aphoristic

Answer 24

Something that is concise and instructive of a general truth or principle