Word Power

Question 1

Snipe

Answer 1

make a sly or petty verbal attack

Question 2

Probity

Answer 2

the quality of having strong moral principles; honesty and decency

Question 3

Resumptive

Answer 3

Tending to resume, repeat, or summarize.

Question 4

Rectitude

Answer 4

morally correct behavior or thinking; righteousness.

Question 5

Emollient

Answer 5

attempting to avoid confrontation or anger; soothing or calming.

Question 6

Affectious

Answer 6

Affectionate or cordial

Question 7

Adventitious

Answer 7

happening or carried on according to chance rather than design or inherent nature

Question 8

Torpid

Answer 8

mentally or physically inactive; lethargic

Question 9

Fatuous

Answer 9

silly and pointless, foolish

Question 10

Saccharine

Answer 10

excessively sweet or sentimental

Question 11

Impertinent

Answer 11

not showing proper respect; rude, ​especially towards someone ​older or in a ​higher ​position than you

Question 12

Risible

Answer 12

such as to provoke laughter, laughable

Question 13

Penurious

Answer 13

extremely poor, poverty stricken

Question 14

Fecund

Answer 14

fertile, capable of producing many offspring

Question 15

Punctilious

Answer 15

showing great attention to detail or correct behavior

Question 16

Hoary

Answer 16

Grayish-white

Old

Question 17

Invidious

Answer 17

likely to arouse or incur resentment or anger in others

Question 18

Imbroglio

Answer 18

extremely confused, complicated, or embarrassing situation.

Question 19

Kleptocratic

Answer 19

of a government, state, etc) characterized by corruption amongst those in power, widespread theft of its nation’s wealth and resources

Question 20

Torpor

Answer 20

state marked by apathy, lethargy, and inactivity

Question 21

Welter

Answer 21

roll, writhe, or tumble about; wallow, as animals (often followed by about)