Week 15

Question 1

Remiss

Answer 1

To be negligent in one’s duty

Question 2

Inflammatory

Answer 2

Extremely controversial, incendiary

Question 3

Immaterial

Answer 3

Not relevant

Question 4

Corrobate

Answer 4

To confirm or lend support to (usually an idea or claim)

Question 5

Dog

Answer 5

To pursue relentlessly; to hound

Question 6

Ferret

Answer 6

To search for something persistently

Question 7

Diabolical

Answer 7

To be extremely wicked like the devil

Question 8

Macabre

Answer 8

Suggesting the horror of of death and decay; gruesome

Question 9

Analogous

Answer 9

Similar in some respects but otherwise different

Question 10

Aphorism

Answer 10

A short instructive saying about a general truth

Question 11

Autonomously

Answer 11

Acting independently; self governing (of a country)

Question 12

Ball

Answer 12

Refuse to comply

Question 13

Begrudge

Answer 13

To envy someone for possessing or enjoying something

Question 14

Begrudge

Answer 14

To give reluctantly

Question 15

Buttress

Answer 15

Make stronger or defensible

Question 16

Carping

Answer 16

Persistently petty and unjustified criticism

Question 17

Coalesce

Answer 17

Fuse or cause to grow together

Question 18

Compound

Answer 18

Make more intense, stronger, or more marked

Question 19

Consecrate

Answer 19

To make holy or set apart for a high purpose

Question 20

Consummate

Answer 20

Having it revealing supreme mastery or skill

Question 21

Consummate

Answer 21

To make perfect and complete in every respect

Question 22

Conundrum

Answer 22

A difficult problem

Question 23

Discriminate

Answer 23

Recognize or perceive the difference

Question 24

Endemic

Answer 24

Native; originating where it is found