Word List 1

Question 1

Vapid

Answer 1

Lacking liveliness, dull

Question 2

Halcyon

Answer 2

Calm, peaceful, happy, prosperous.

Question 3

Philistine

Answer 3

A person who is guided by materialism and is disdainful of intellectual or artistic values.

Question 4

Furtive

Answer 4

Secretive, sly

Question 5

Maelstrom

Answer 5

A destructive whirlpool which rapidly sucks in objects

Question 6

Tenuous

Answer 6

Very weak or slight.

Question 7

Amenable

Answer 7

Willing,compliant.

Question 8

Undulate

Answer 8

To move in waves.

Question 9

Debacle

Answer 9

Disastrous failure, disruption.

Question 10

Requisition

Answer 10

A demand for goods, usually made by an authority.

Question 11

Arrogate

Answer 11

To take without justification.

Question 12

Augury

Answer 12

Prophecy, Prediction of events.

Question 13

Convoluted.

Answer 13

Intricate, complelicated.

Question 14

Perusal

Answer 14

A careful examination, review

Question 15

Pulchritudinous

Answer 15

Physically beautiful/ attractive

Question 16

Sublime

Answer 16

Loafty, grand, exalted.

Question 17

Facetious

Answer 17

Using or tending to use unsuitable jokes; irreverent.

Question 18

Denigrate

Answer 18

To belittle, diminish the opinion of

Question 19

Congenial

Answer 19

Pleasantly agreeable.

Question 20

Rapturous

Answer 20

Filled with great joy or delight.

Question 21

Decorus

Answer 21

Socially proper, appropriate.

Question 22

Tyro

Answer 22

Beginner, novice.

Question 23

Arboreal

Answer 23

Of or relating to trees.

Question 24

Stolid

Answer 24

Unemotional.

Question 25

Moratorium

Answer 25

Temporary prohibition of an activity.

Question 26

Multifarious

Answer 26

Great diversity or variety

Question 27

Pejorative

Answer 27

Expressing contempt or disapproval

Question 28

Cronyism

Answer 28

Appointment of friends and associates tonpositions of power without regard for qualification

Question 29

Sardonic

Answer 29

Mocking or cynical

Question 30

Despot

Answer 30

One who has total power and rules brutally

Question 31

Goad

Answer 31

To urge, spur, incite to action

Question 32

Tenuous

Answer 32

Having little substance or strength

Question 33

Exhort

Answer 33

To urge, prod, spur

Question 34

Polemic

Answer 34

Aggressive argument against specific opinion

Question 35

Emollient

Answer 35

Soothing

Question 36

Acquitted

Answer 36

Free someone off criminal charge

Question 37

Lassitude

Answer 37

State of diminished energy

Question 38

Equanimity

Answer 38

Composure, steadiness of mind under stress

Question 39

Conciliatory

Answer 39

Friendly, agreeable

Question 40

Consecrate

Answer 40

To make or declare sacred