Zd

Question 1

estop

Answer 1

to put an end to something

Hopefully Trump will estop the corrupt FBI and CIA.

Question 2

granitic

Answer 2

hard , unyielding

Henry V’s granitic will conquered France in 1420.

Question 3

le mot juste

Answer 3

the perfect word

Gill: “Cheesy! Ah yes, le mot juste. What aptitude you possess?”

Question 4

fain

Answer 4

happily

I would fain help you, but I am in Florida.

Question 5

Babelize

Answer 5

to make something confused

Biden loves to Babelize.

Question 6

sinistral

Answer 6

left-handed

Sinistral surgical instruments are expensive.

Question 7

Sardanapalian

Answer 7

as decadent and luxurious as Ashurbanipal of Assyria…which he wasn’t btw

Our two weeks at Wakatobi were Sardanapalian.

Question 8

chevauchee

Answer 8

a calvary raid

Thomas, Henry’s youngest brother, was killed in a chevauchee he led in France in 1421.

Question 9

palaver

Answer 9

profuse and idle talk

I weary of the constant Liberal palaver.

Question 10

swot

Answer 10

a student who studies assiduously

I was the class swot at Servite.

Question 11

abstergent
adj

Answer 11

cleansing

Listening to Bach has an abstergent power to clear one’s mind of the present troubles.

Question 12

stayed
pt verb

Answer 12

to be stopped

“Hitler was the fate of Germany and this fate could not be stayed.”
Field Marshal Walther Commander of The German Army

Question 13

campanulate

Answer 13

bell-shaped
campanula =latin little bell

The sea was full of campanulate jellyfish.

Question 14

cacoethes

Answer 14

an uncontrollable desire

Though they had met only minutes before, he had a cacoethes to kiss her.

Question 15

sinologist

Answer 15

a historian of China

Just like Russia, with every change of Supreme Ruler Chinese sinologists rewrite their history.

Question 16

retinue

Answer 16

a group of hired employees that follow a person of importance

I, and millions of others, do not trust the Secret Service retinue that follows Trump.

Question 17

lapping

Answer 17

the practice of adjusting financials to hide money losses due to one’s fraud

Gavin Newsome will be indicted for lapping millions of tax dollars slated for new reservoirs in California.

Question 18

lacis

Answer 18

a mesh like pattern of lace or a network

A lacis of British Agents was deeply embedded in the NAZI party.

Question 19

arbitrage

Answer 19

the purchase of a commodity at one price in one region and the sale of that same commodity for a higher price in different region

The “Yen Carry” is a classic arbitrage that just went bust.

Question 20

ineluctable

Answer 20

not able to be changed
The shift of the United States to Trump , MAGA, and its agenda is ineluctable.

Question 21

tendentious

Answer 21

having a definite tendency,bias or purpose
Hitler’s Mein Kempf was a tendentious, diaristic work trying to legitimize his faults through the blame of others.

Question 22

wanton

Answer 22

sexually unrestrained

“That’s enough out of you…you wanton trollop.”

Question 23

sachet

Answer 23

a single use plastic packet

He sat there disgustingly sucking on a sachet of mayonnaise.

Question 24

palaver

Answer 24

profuse and idle talk

It is palaver with unknown people that drives me crazy at parties.

Question 25

abrogation

Answer 25

rescission, the act of doing away with something

Point 2 of the NAZI manifesto was the immediate abrogation of the Treaty of Versailles.

Question 26

indemnify

Answer 26

to secure someone from future liability

Britain required that Germany indemnify it for the “criminal destruction it had caused “.

Question 27

diktat

Answer 27

a harshly dictated peace agreement

The diktat of The Treaty of Versailles was directly responsible for causing The Second World War.

Question 28

scapegrace

Answer 28

a complete rogue, an untrustworthy and dishonest person
Where is that scapegrace son of mine?

Question 29

prolixity

Answer 29

the state of being tediously wordy
Why do all politicians suffer from prolixity?

Question 30

to cote

Answer 30

to surpass
In heaven, we will cote these mortal bounds.

Question 31

prorogue

Answer 31

to postpone or delay

The Senate is deliberately proroguing Trump’s Cabinet picks.

Question 32

impute

Answer 32

to ascribe something to something or someone else

I impute my paternal rearing methods to the warped mirror of my own Father.

Question 33

bathycolpian

Answer 33

deep breasted

The errant ear ring fell off her ear and plunged into bathycolpian delight.

Question 34

beguiled

Answer 34

to trick by flattery or flirting

The serpent beguiled Eve.