Week 6

Question 1

Quagmire

Answer 1

2 : a difficult, precarious, or entrapping position : PREDICAMENT

Ex: the party was once again facing its quadrennial quagmire: the candidate sufficiently liberal to win the nomination would be too liberal for the general election

a protracted custody dispute that became a judicial quagmire

Question 2

Crabby

Answer 2

easily irritated : peevish and irritable : GROUCHY

Ex: a crabby recluse

He gets crabby if he doesn’t have his morning coffee.

She was in a crabby mood and got a certain amount of satisfaction out of pushing her sister’s buttons.

Question 3

Surly

Answer 3

irritably sullen and churlish in mood or manner : CRABBED

Question 4

Priapism

Answer 4

an abnormal often painful persistent erection of the penis

Question 5

Crux

Answer 5

a main or central feature (as of an argument)

Ex: … he discarded all but the essential cruxes of his argument.

the crux of the problem is that the school’s current budget is totally inadequate

Question 6

Sanctimonious

Answer 6

Adjective

hypocritically pious or devout

Ex: asanctimonious moralist

the king’s sanctimonious rebuke

Question 7

Addled

Answer 7

Adjective

thrown into confusion : CONFUSED

Ex: his addled brain/mind

… vainly endeavouring to master some task … which, to the addled brain of the crushed boy of nineteen, was a sealed and hopeless mystery.

Question 8

Facsimile

Answer 8

an exact copy

Ex: A facsimile of the world’s first computer was exhibited at the museum

Question 9

Upstart

Answer 9

one that has risen suddenly (as from a low position to wealth or power) : PARVENU

Question 10

Wayfarer

Answer 10

: a traveler especially on foot