week fourteen

Question 1

brusque

Answer 1

abrupt in manner or speech; discourteously blunt

Question 2

tepid

Answer 2

lukewarm; mild; half-hearted

Question 3

protean

Answer 3

readily taking on varied forms and meaning

Question 4

solicitous

Answer 4

showing great care and concern; attentive

Question 5

ingenuous

Answer 5

free from deviousness, innocent

Question 6

venerate

Answer 6

to regard with great respect; to hold in high esteem

Question 7

contentious

Answer 7

quarrelsome; argumentative; likely to provoke a controversy

Question 8

preclude

Answer 8

to make impossible; to rule out; to prevent

Question 9

compunction

Answer 9

feelings of sincere and deep regret

Question 10

demography

Answer 10

the study of characteristics of human populations

Question 11

aphorism

Answer 11

a statement universally accepted as true

Question 12

juxtapose

Answer 12

to place side by side or in close proximity

Question 13

bombastic

Answer 13

pompous or pretentious in speech writing; ostentatiously lofty in style

Question 14

forbearance

Answer 14

abstaining from the enforcement of a right; the act of refraining from acting on a desire or impulse

Question 15

unfettered

Answer 15

free of restraint of any kind; liberated

Question 16

prescribe

Answer 16

to require; to order; to direct