week 19+20

Question 1

Lugubrious (adj)

Answer 1

gloomy, mournful

Question 2

Malaise (n)

Answer 2

a general feeling of uneasiness

Question 3

Malign (v/adj)

Answer 3

to slander or defame

Question 4

Martinet (n)

Answer 4

a strict disciplinarian

Question 5

Mawkish (adj)

Answer 5

cloyingly, insipidly sentimental

Question 6

Mellifluous (adj)

Answer 6

describes sounds that are sweet and smooth

Question 7

Mendacious (adj)

Answer 7

false, lying, untruthful

Question 8

Mercurial (adj)

Answer 8

lively and sprightly also changeable and fickle

Question 9

Messianic (adj)

Answer 9

applied to a leader, expected to be able to liberate or deliver in a crisis

Question 10

Metaphysics (n)

Answer 10

philosophy, abstruse variety

Question 11

miasma (n)

Answer 11

noxious air or unwholesome exhalations

Question 12

Minutia (N)

Answer 12

the minutia of anything are its smallest detains

Question 13

moribund (adj)

Answer 13

approaching death

Question 14

Mutinous (adj)

Answer 14

refusing to obey the orders of someone in authority

Question 15

Nadir (N)

Answer 15

the nadir of anything is its lowest point

Question 16

Nascent (adj)

Answer 16

beginning to exist

Question 17

nefarious (adj)

Answer 17

wicked, execrable

Question 18

Nihilism (n)

Answer 18

philosophy that preaches total rejection

Question 19

Noxious (adj)

Answer 19

harmful, physically or morally

Question 20

Nuance (N)

Answer 20

a shade of meaning, a delicate graduation, a subtle difference in Depression