week eight

Question 1

insidious

Answer 1

causing harm in a subtle or stealthy manner

Question 2

vacuous

Answer 2

empty; lacking serious purpose

Question 3

harbinger

Answer 3

something that foreshadows a future event; an omen; a prognostic

Question 4

beleaguer

Answer 4

to beset; to surround with problems

Question 5

burgeon

Answer 5

to grow rapidly; to expand

Question 6

imperious

Answer 6

domineering and arrogant; haughty

Question 7

petulant

Answer 7

peevish; irritable; whining or complaining in a childlike way

Question 8

complaisant

Answer 8

agreeable; marked by a pleasing personality; affable; amiable

Question 9

fawning

Answer 9

behaving in a servile or subservient manner; sycophantic; overly obedient; submissive

Question 10

obdurate

Answer 10

very stubborn; obstinate; unyieldingly persistent; inflexible; intractable

Question 11

redolent

Answer 11

having a strong specific smell; bringing to mid; suggestive of

Question 12

chicanery

Answer 12

deception by subterfuge; deliberate trickery and artifice

Question 13

conundrum

Answer 13

a difficult problem; a dilemma with no easy solution

Question 14

slight

Answer 14

to treat as unimportant; to deliberately ignore; to disrespect

Question 15

capitulate

Answer 15

to surrender; to comply without protest

Question 16

disheartening

Answer 16

very discouraging; dismaying; dispiriting