Word List 8 (O-P)

Question 1

Obfuscate

Answer 1

to obscure the meaning of

Question 2

Obliged

Answer 2

forced; made to do something because of conscience or obligation

Question 3

Oblique

Answer 3

indirect;slanted

Question 4

Obstreperous*

Answer 4

unruly, clamorous, boisterous; bad-tempered, argumentative

Question 5

Olfactory

Answer 5

relating to the sense of smell

Question 6

Onerous

Answer 6

burdensome

Question 7

Opprobrium

Answer 7

scorn, contempt

Question 8

Ostensible

Answer 8

apparent

Question 9

Panacea

Answer 9

a cure-all

Question 10

Partisan

Answer 10

biased; opinionated

Question 11

Pathos

Answer 11

empathy; sympathetic pity

Question 12

Pedagogic

Answer 12

relating to education; instructive

Question 13

Pedantic

Answer 13

narrowly or pretentiously learned

Question 14

Perfidious

Answer 14

disloyal; traitorous

Question 15

Petulant

Answer 15

irritable

Question 16

Plaudits

Answer 16

applause; praise

Question 17

Pontificate

Answer 17

to speak in a supercilious and self-important manner

Question 18

Pragmatist

Answer 18

a practical person

Question 19

Precept

Answer 19

a rule of behavior or action

Question 20

Precipitate

Answer 20

to hurry up; to make happen before planned

Question 21

Prescience

Answer 21

advance knowledge; foresight; anticipation

Question 22

Probity

Answer 22

honesty; integrity

Question 23

Profligate*

Answer 23

extravagant to a fault; prodigal

Question 24

Proliferate

Answer 24

to reproduce or multiply quickly

Question 25

Promulgate

Answer 25

to make known, formally, a law or set of beliefs

Question 26

Prose

Answer 26

language ordinarily used in speaking or writing; writing that is not poetry

Question 27

Prototype

Answer 27

a model; an archetype; a first specimen

Question 28

Prowess

Answer 28

valor, skill

Question 29

Pundits

Answer 29

erudite (learned, scholarly) persons