Word set - Week 12

Question 0

Inhibition

Answer 0

Restraint, self-control, suppression, repression, self-restraint

Question 1

Diatribe

Answer 1

Bitter criticism, rant, tirade

Question 2

Fortuitous

Answer 2

Accidental, casual, chance, fluky

Providential

Question 3

Incoherent

Answer 3

Not sticking closely, disconnected, disjointed, rambling, unconnected

Ant. Coherent, connected

Question 4

Ilk

Answer 4

Kind, sort, group set up by common characteristic

Breed, class, description, feather, manner, nature, order, species, type

Question 5

Prestigious

Answer 5

Name, reputable, respectable, distinguished, eminent, illustrious, noble, notable, noteworthy, outstanding

Question 6

Placard

Answer 6

Poster, bill. A notice posted in a public place

Question 7

Integral

Answer 7

Essential to completeness, lacking nothing essential, imperative, indispensable, vital, ingrained, inherent, innate, intrinsic

Question 8

Remuneration

Answer 8

Reward, pay, salary, compensation, consideration, recompense, remittance

Question 9

Nominal

Answer 9

Slight, trifling, formal, paper

Lacking in significance, or solid worth, inconsequential, insignificant, measly, negligible, paltry, petty, trivial

Question 10

Expunge

Answer 10

Erase, delete, remove

Question 11

Flamboyant

Answer 11

Showy, colorful, flashy, garish, gaudy, glitzy, ostentatious, swank, tawdry

Question 12

Anathema

Answer 12

A person or thing accursed

one intensely disliked, abhorrence, abomination, antipathy, aversion

A solemn curse, execration, malediction

Question 13

Schism

Answer 13

Split, act or process of dividing, discord, dissolution, division, partition, separation, split

Question 14

Utopia

Answer 14

Place of perfection, eden, elysium

Question 15

Timorous

Answer 15

Fearful, a timid disposition, afraid

Question 16

Truncated

Answer 16

Cut short, abbreviated, abridged

Question 17

Jaunty

Answer 17

Sprightly in manner or appearance, active, animated, brisk, energetic, snappy, spirited

Question 18

Fractious

Answer 18

Tending to be troublesome, hard to handle or control

Quarrelsome, irritable

Question 19

Ostentatious

Answer 19

Showy, flamboyant, grandiose, pretentious