Word List 21

Question 1

gambit

Answer 1

n. opening in chess with a piece is sacrificed; prologue

Question 2

balk

Answer 2

v. to hinder, foil or thwart

Question 3

perennial

Answer 3

n. something that is continuing and recurrent

Question 4

hoodwink

Answer 4

v. to deceive or delude

Question 5

churlish

Answer 5

adj. boorish

Question 6

insomnia

Answer 6

n. wakefulness

Question 7

obfuscate

Answer 7

v. to bewilder, confuse

Question 8

queasy

Answer 8

adj. easily nauseated

Question 9

protege

Answer 9

n. person receiving protection

Question 10

quiver

Answer 10

v. to shake

Question 11

bicameral

Answer 11

adj. two-chambered

Question 12

effervescence

Answer 12

adj. to be jubilant

Question 13

hamper

Answer 13

v. hinder

Question 14

tribute

Answer 14

n. tax

Question 15

loathe

Answer 15

v. detest

Question 16

quagmire

Answer 16

soft, wet, boggy land

Question 17

cower

Answer 17

v. shrink quiver

Question 18

hilarity

Answer 18

n. mirth

Question 19

plethora

Answer 19

n. excess; overabundance

Question 20

divest

Answer 20

v. strip, deprieve

Question 21

reprobate

Answer 21

n. a person hardened in sin

Question 22

dutiful

Answer 22

adj. to be respectful and obedient

Question 23

accede

Answer 23

v. agree

Question 24

infirmity

Answer 24

n. weakness

Question 25

motif

Answer 25

n. theme

Question 26

dissident

Answer 26

adj. dissenting; rebellious

Question 27

centripetal

Answer 27

adj. towards the center

Question 28

cadaverous

Answer 28

adj. like a corpose

Question 29

wrath

Answer 29

n. anger, fury

Question 30

abdicate

Answer 30

v. to renounce, abjure

Question 31

astringent

Answer 31

adj. to be binding; causing contraction

Question 32

beautitude

Answer 32

n. blessedness

Question 33

bedizen

Answer 33

v. dress with vulgar finery

Question 34

litigation

Answer 34

n. lawsuit

Question 35

acidulous

Answer 35

adj. slightly sour

Question 36

kindred

Answer 36

adj. ti be akin to

Question 37

jocose

Answer 37

adj. given to joking

Question 38

facsimile

Answer 38

n. copy

Question 39

deadpan

Answer 39

adj. to be wooden or impersonal

Question 40

emissary

Answer 40

n. agent

Question 41

genealogy

Answer 41

n. record of descent

Question 42

detrimental

Answer 42

adj. harmful; damaging

Question 43

brindled

Answer 43

adj. tawny or grayish with streaks or spots

Question 44

innuendo

Answer 44

n. hint, insinuation

Question 45

practitioner

Answer 45

n. someone engaged in profession

Question 46

guileness

Answer 46

adj. candid

Question 47

miasima

Answer 47

n. swamp gas; heavy, vaporous atomsphere

Question 48

liquidate

Answer 48

v. settle accounts; clear up

Question 49

tenuous

Answer 49

adj. to be thin and rare

Question 50

momentum

Answer 50

n. quantity of motion of a moving body

Question 51

truncate

Answer 51

v. to cut the top of

Question 52

harass

Answer 52

v. annoy by repeated attacks

Question 53

allegiance

Answer 53

n. loyalty

Question 54

wallow

Answer 54

v. to roll

Question 55

ardent

Answer 55

adj. to be zealous

Question 56

unprepossession

Answer 56

adj. unattractive

Question 57

fodder

Answer 57

n. coarse food for cattle

Question 58

omnivorous

Answer 58

adj. devouring everyting

Question 59

vigor

Answer 59

n. active strength

Question 60

oaf

Answer 60

adj. stupid, akward

Question 61

fawning

Answer 61

adj. courting favor by cringing and flattering

Question 62

truculence

Answer 62

adj. bellicose

Question 63

harrowing

Answer 63

adj. agonizing, distressing; traumatic

Question 64

subsistence

Answer 64

n. means needed to support life

Question 65

insuperable

Answer 65

adj. insurmountable

Question 66

bilious

Answer 66

adj. suffering from indigestion

Question 67

listless

Answer 67

adj. lacking in energy

Question 68

loom

Answer 68

v. appear or take shape

Question 69

latent

Answer 69

adj. potential but undeveloped

Question 70

savor

Answer 70

v. enjoy

Question 71

jaunt

Answer 71

n. trip, short journey

Question 72

germane

Answer 72

adj. pertinent

Question 73

flout

Answer 73

v. to reject or mock