Week 29+30

Question 1

sophomore/sophomoric n/adj

Answer 1

having or showing a lack of maturity

Question 2

soporific (adj)

Answer 2

tending to induce drowsiness or sleep

Question 3

spate (n)

Answer 3

a large number of similar things or events

Question 4

spleen (n)

Answer 4

feelings of anger or il will that are often suppressed

Question 5

squalid (adj)

Answer 5

extremely dirty and unpleasant

Question 6

Stentorian (adj)

Answer 6

of a persons voice loud and powerful

Question 7

stolid/stoic (adj)

Answer 7

calm, dependable, and showing little emotion or animation

Question 8

sublimate (v)

Answer 8

to divert the expression (of an instinctual desire or impulse) from its unacceptable form

Question 9

succor (n)

Answer 9

assistance and support in times of hardship and distress

Question 10

Sully (v)

Answer 10

damage the purity or integrity; defile

Question 11

supercilious

Answer 11

behaving or looking as though one thinks they are superior

Question 12

surfeit

Answer 12

too much

Question 13

surreptitious

Answer 13

done in secret

Question 14

Sybarite

Answer 14

self-indulgent

Question 15

syntax

Answer 15

the way words are put together

Question 16

synthesis

Answer 16

something that is made by combining different things

Question 17

tacit

Answer 17

understand without words

Question 18

taciturn

Answer 18

uncommunicative

Question 19

tangential

Answer 19

slightly or directly related to the main point

Question 20

tawdry

Answer 20

having a cheap and ugly appearance