Word List 36

Question 1

mandate

Answer 1

n. order; charge

Question 2

manifold

Answer 2

ajd. numerous; varied

Question 3

manumit

Answer 3

v.emancipate; free from bondage

Question 4

marsupial

Answer 4

n. one of a family of mammals that nurse their offspring in a pouch

Question 5

maunder

Answer 5

v. talk incoherently; utter drivel

Question 6

mawkish

Answer 6

adj. sickening; insipid

Question 7

melange

Answer 7

n. medley; miscellany

Question 8

miasma

Answer 8

n. swamp gas; odor of decaying matter

Question 9

microcosm

Answer 9

n. small world

Question 10

milieu

Answer 10

n. environment; means of expression

Question 11

militant

Answer 11

adj. combative; bellicose

Question 12

minaret

Answer 12

n. slender tower attached to a mosque

Question 13

minatory

Answer 13

adj. threatening

Question 14

moratorium

Answer 14

n. legal delay of payment

Question 15

morganatic

Answer 15

adj. describing a marriage between a member of a royal family and a commoner in which it is agreed that any children will not inherit title, etc.

Question 16

mugwump

Answer 16

n. defector from a party

Question 17

multifarious

Answer 17

adj. varied; greatly diversified

Question 18

murrain

Answer 18

n. plague; cattle disease

Question 19

myopic

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adj. nearsighted

Question 20

nascent

Answer 20

adj. incipient; coming to being

Question 21

nautical

Answer 21

adj. pertaining to ships or nagivation

Question 22

neap

Answer 22

adj. lowest

Question 23

neologism

Answer 23

n. new or newly coined word or phrase

Question 24

nonplus

Answer 24

v. bring to a halt by confusion

Question 25

nubile

Answer 25

adj. marriageable

Question 26

abjurgatino

Answer 26

n. severe rebuke; scolding

Question 27

oblation

Answer 27

n. the Eucharist; pious donation

Question 28

obstetrician

Answer 28

n. physician specializing in delivery of babies

Question 29

obstreperous

Answer 29

adj. boisterous; noisy

Question 30

Occident

Answer 30

n. the Wet

Question 31

odium

Answer 31

n. repugnance; dislike

Question 32

offal

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n. waste; garbage

Question 33

onus

Answer 33

n. burden; responsibility

Question 34

omnipresent

Answer 34

adj. universally present; ubiquitous

Question 35

opportunist

Answer 35

n. individual who sacrifices principles for expediency by taking advantage of circumstances

Question 36

opprobrium

Answer 36

n. infamy; vilification

Question 37

opus

Answer 37

n. work

Question 38

orientation

Answer 38

n. act of finding oneself in society

Question 39

orison

Answer 39

n. prayer

Question 40

ornithology

Answer 40

n. study of birds

Question 41

orotund

Answer 41

adj. having a round, resonant quality; inflated speech

Question 42

orthography

Answer 42

n. correct spelling

Question 43

overweening

Answer 43

adj. presumptuous; arrogant

Question 44

pachyderm

Answer 44

n. thick-skinned animal