Wynsb

Question 1

Alacrity

Answer 1

Eager and enthusiastic willingness.

Sentence: He has alacrity towards his tasks

Question 2

Assuage

Answer 2

To ease or lessen; to appease or pacify

Sentence: they need to assuage the pressure on their students.

Question 3

Capricious

Answer 3

Inclined to change ones mind impulsively;erratic;unpredictable

Sentence: Our college board is capricious

Question 4

Censure

Answer 4

To criticize severely; to officially rebuke

Sentence: critics are meant to censure

Question 5

Chicanery

Shi-key-nery

Answer 5

Trickery or subterfuge.

Question 6

Discordant

Answer 6

Conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound

Sentence: He made discordant allegations about his partner.

Question 7

Disparate

Dis-per-et

Answer 7

Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar.

Sentence: we have disparate routines but still manage to make time.

Question 8

Enervate

Answer 8

To weaken; to reduce in vitality

Sentence: they’re trying to enervate their opponent

Question 9

Ennui

Aan-we

Answer 9

Dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy

Sentence: the word math gets me feeling ennui.

Question 10

Equivocate

Answer 10

To use ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth or avoid committing oneself ; deliberately unclear in order to mislead or withhold

Sentence: the culprit tried to equivocate while he was being questioned by the media.

Question 11

Exculpate

Answer 11

Exonerate; show or declare that someone is not guilty; clear of blame

Sentence: the lawyer assured his client that he will exculpate him.

Question 12

Exigent

Ex-I-gent

Answer 12

Urgent; pressure; demanding; requiring immediate action or attention.

Sentence: She had exigent terms before agreeing to a settlement.

Question 13

Ingenuous

In-gen-uous

Answer 13

Innocent and unsuspecting; artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication

Sentence: the paintings at her gallery seemed ingenuous.

Question 14

Inured

Answer 14

Accustomed to accepting something undesirable or unpleasant.

Sentence: We were inured to doing our gre homework on time 😛

Question 15

Irascible

E-ra-sable

Answer 15

Easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts.

Sentence: teenagers are irascible.

Question 16

Laud

Law-d

Answer 16

To praise highly.

Sentence: Their efforts deserve to be laud.

Question 17

Aberrant

Answer 17

Deviating from the norm/usual.

Sentence: Her behavior has been aberrant over the past week.

Question 18

Filibuster

Answer 18

Delaying tactics; to obstruct legislation by talking at great lengths

Sentence: you will have to over come a number of filibusters in order to get your point across

Question 19

Magnanimity

Answer 19

The quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, esp in forgiving

Synonyms: generosity, charity, charitable was, humanity, chivalry, kindness

Question 20

Mundane

Answer 20

Typical of or concerned with the ordinary; lacking interest or excitement; dull

Question 21

Nascent

Answer 21

Coming into being; in early development; starting stages

Question 22

Nebulous

Answer 22

Vague; cloudy; lacking clarity

Question 23

Neologism

Neo-lo-gism

Answer 23

A newly coined word or expression; a new word expression or usage; act of inventing

Sentence: like the best neologisms, this one has swiftly taken on a life of its own

Question 24

Noxious

Answer 24

Harmful; injurious

Question 25

Obtuse

Answer 25

Blunt; not clear or precise in thought or expression

Question 26

Obviate

Answer 26

To anticipate; prevent; remove

Sentence: helmets are a must to obviate head injuries

Question 27

Onerous

On-er-ous

Answer 27

Troubling; burdensome

Sentence: he found the work load at his new office onerous

Question 28

Parody

Answer 28

A humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect of a style of a particular writer, artist or genre

Sentence: the scary movie is a parody of the horror genre.

Question 29

Perennial

Answer 29

Happening repeatedly; long lasting(over years)

Sentence: evergreen trees are perennial

Question 30

Perfunctory

Answer 30

Done without care or interest, feeling or effort

Question 31

Prattle

Answer 31

To babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner

Question 32

Prescience

Answer 32

Foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring

Question 33

Refute

Answer 33

To disapprove; prove to be wrong; deny or contradict

Question 34

Relegate

Answer 34

Transfer to a lower division or league; assign an inferior rank or position

Synonym: downgrade; put down; lower

Sentence: they relegated her actual points.

Question 35

Solicitous

So-lici-tous

Answer 35

Eager or anxious to do something

Question 36

Sporadic

Answer 36

Occurring only occasionally; or in scattered instances

Question 37

Static

Answer 37

Not moving, at rest

Question 38

Stupefy

Answer 38

To stun, baffle, or amaze; astonish and shock

Question 39

Tortuous

Tor-tuous

Answer 39

Winding; twisting; excessively lengthy or complex

Sentence: the math paper was tortuous

Question 40

Truculent

Answer 40

Fierce and cruel; eager to fight

Sentence: he has a truculent attitude towards things he finds false to believe

Question 41

Voracious

Answer 41

Devouring or craving food in great quantities

Sentence: voracious Sharks

Question 42

Waver

Answer 42

To move to and fro; to sway; to be unstable in opinion

Question 43

Breadwinner

Answer 43

a person who earns money to support their family, typically the sole one