Words

Question 1

a country that is ruled by a person with complete and total power.

Answer 1

autocracy

Question 2

to change (a book, play, movie, etc) by removing parts that could offend people

Answer 2

bowdlerize

Question 3

a mollusk with tentacles attached to its head, squid/octopus

Answer 3

cephalopod

Question 4

difficult to understand

Answer 4

incoherent

Question 5

the art or practice of telling fortunes and interpreting character from the lines and configurations of the palm of a person’s hand

Answer 5

chiropod

Question 6

a job or position in which someone is paid to do little or no work. (my first job as a secretary was a sincere because all I did was play solitaire on my computer and paint my nails

Answer 6

sinecure

Question 7

dull and ordinary (relating to things of the ordinary world)

Answer 7

mundane

Question 8

extreme fear of pain

Answer 8

algophobia

Question 9

relating to the South or southern regions of the globe

Answer 9

austral

Question 10

a person who studies the science of human beings: especially: a person who studies human beings and their ancestors through time and space and in relation to physical character, environmental and social relations, and culture

Answer 10

anthropologist

Question 11

a fossil bipedal (walks on two feet) primate with both apelike and human characteristics, found in Pliocene and lower Pleistocene deposits (circa 4 million to 1 million years old) in Africa

Answer 11

australopithecus

Question 12

lack of consistency, regularity, or uniformity

Answer 12

erratic

Question 13

sleep-inducing

Answer 13

somniferous

Question 14

an underground place of burial

Answer 14

catacombs

Question 15

a person who is paralyzed in both the arms and legs

Answer 15

quadriplegic

Question 16

existing, situated or operating below the surface of the earth; underground

Answer 16

subterranean

Question 17

beyond what is needed; not necessary

Answer 17

superfluous

Question 18

a person who greatly admires or favors England and things English

Answer 18

Anglophile

Question 19

a condition or mental illness that causes people to think they have great or unlimited power or importance (a person with megalomania is a megalomaniac)

Answer 19

megalomania

Question 20

a published collection of literary pieces

Answer 20

anthology

Question 21

any mass slaughter or reckless destruction of life

Answer 21

holocaust

Question 22

the crime of telling a lie in a court of law after promising to tell the truth (you perjure yourself OR you commit perjury)

Answer 22

perjure

Question 23

to change the position or order of things

Answer 23

transpose

Question 24

any of a group of reptiles including the lizards and in older classifications the crocodiles and various extinct forms (as the dinosaurs) that look like lizards

Answer 24

saurian

Question 25

a keyboard musical instrument consisting of a set of whistles sounded usually by steam

Answer 25

calliope