Week 5

Question 1

Browbeat

Answer 1

Bully, intimidate, force, bludgeon, terrorize

Question 2

Commensurate

Answer 2

Equivalent, equal, corresponding, comparable

Question 3

Diaphanous

Answer 3

Sheer, fine, delicate, light, thin, flimsy

Question 4

Emolument

Answer 4

Salary, pay, payment, allowance

Question 5

Foray

Answer 5

Raid, attack, assault, strike, incursion

Question 6

Genre

Answer 6

Category, class, category, group, set, list

Question 7

Homily

Answer 7

Sermon, lecture, discourse, address, lesson, talk, speech, oration

Question 8

Immure

Answer 8

Confine, intern, incarcerate, imprison, Jail, cage

Question 9

Insouciant

Answer 9

Nonchalant, untroubled, unworried, unruffled, unconcerned, indifferent

Question 10

Matrix

Answer 10

Cast, forge, form, grid, model, mold

Question 11

Obsequies

Answer 11

Funeral, burial, internment, entombment

Question 12

Panache

Answer 12

Confidence

Question 13

Aficionado

Answer 13

Connoisseur, expert, authority, specialist, pundit

Question 14

Persona

Answer 14

Image, face, character, self, identity, personality

Question 15

Philippic

Answer 15

Lecture, attack, rant, broadside, criticism, condemnation

Question 16

Prurient

Answer 16

Lustful, lubricious, concupiscent

Question 17

Sacrosanct

Answer 17

Sacred, inviolable, inviolate, untouchable

Question 18

Systemic

Answer 18

Analytical, arranged, complete, logical, ordered

Question 19

Tendentious

Answer 19

Disposed, one-sided, partial, prejudiced, prepossessed

Question 20

Vicissitude

Answer 20

Change, alteration, shift, reversal, twist, turn, variation