Word Holiday

Question 1

n.
womanizer

Answer 1

casanova

Question 2

n.
a rumor; gossip

Answer 2

scuttlebutt

Question 3

adj.
rising or falling motion;
appearance like waves

Answer 3

undulant

Question 4

v.
to be proud

Answer 4

kvell

Question 5

n.
common sense; intelligence

Answer 5

nous

Question 6

adj.
fierce; violent

Answer 6

savage

Question 7

n.
exaggerated pride or self-confidence

Answer 7

hubris

Question 8

n.
the human ability to see shapes and make figures out of randomness

Answer 8

pareidolia

Question 9

v.
dance artistically

Answer 9

balter

Question 10

n.
mist; fog

Answer 10

brumous

Question 11

n.
daydream, delirium, rejoicing or a state of mental abstractions and imaginations

Answer 11

reverie

Question 12

n.
the front of a building

Answer 12

facade

Question 13

n.
disgrace, loss or infamy

Answer 13

ignominy

Question 14

n.
the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way

Answer 14

serendipity

Question 15

adj.

lack of fashion sense or unattractive

Answer 15

dowdy

Question 16

adj.
feeling or appearing casually, calm and relaxed; not displaying anxiety, interest, or enthusiasm

Answer 16

nonchalant

Question 17

adj.
beautiful, fine or graceful in any way

Answer 17

pulchritudinous

Question 18

adj.
just begun and so not fully formed or developed

Answer 18

inchoate

Question 19

adj.
unable to be resisted or avoided; inescapable

Answer 19

ineluctable

Question 20

adj.
showing strong feeling: forceful, passionate, or intense

Answer 20

vehement

Question 21

n.
a ringing or tinkling sound

Answer 21

tintinnabulation

Question 22

adj.
tasting like nuts

mad; crazy

Answer 22

nutty

Question 23

adj.
smart and fashionable

Answer 23

natty

Question 24

n.
an extensive fire which destroys a great deal of land or property

Answer 24

conflagration

Question 25

adj. causing harm or damage

Answer 25

deleterious

Question 26

adj. strange or odd; unusual

Answer 26

peculiar

Question 27

n. new and unusual or experimental ideas, especially in the arts, or the people introducing them

Answer 27

avant-garde

Question 28

n. a large-scale and violent event in the natural world

Answer 28

cataclysm

Question 29

n. a harsh discordant mixture of sounds

Answer 29

cacophony

Question 30

n. the quality of being fair and impatial

Answer 30

equity

Question 31

adj. inexperienced; immature

Answer 31

callow

Question 32

n. selfish; self-centered

Answer 32

solipsism

Question 33

adj. not reciprocated

Answer 33

unrequited

Question 34

adj. sexually attractive; marriageable

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nubile

Question 35

n. great sorrow

Answer 35

rue

Question 36

n. state of being married

Answer 36

matrimony

Question 37

adj. old-fashioned

Answer 37

obsolete

Question 38

n. lover; forbidden love

Answer 38

paramour

Question 39

n. something/someone you think about all the time

Answer 39

wonderwall