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Quiz #6
Amer/Whisl 2013-14
Question | Answer |
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peril | exposure to injury, loss or destruction; grave risk |
conundrum | a riddle, the answer to which involves a pun or a play on words |
presumptuous | forward, unwarrantedly bold |
impertinent | intrusive, as person or their actions; boldly rude |
inexplicable | in capable of being accounted for or explained |
extrapolate | to infer from something that is known |
rankle | to cause keen irritation or bitter resentment in |
zeal | passion for a person, cause or object; eager desire |
gall | nerve, something bitter or severe |
doting | excessively fond |
tout | to solicit business, employment votes or the like repeatedly |
gibe | to utter mocking or scoffing words; jeer |
scapegoat | a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place |
quintessential | of the pure and essential essence of something; of the most perfect embodiment of soemthing |
decadence | unrestrained or excessive self-indulgence |
throng | a great number of things, people crowded together |
aggregate | formed by the conjunction or collection of particles into a whole mass or sum; total;combined |
acute | sharp or severe in effect; intense |
nostalgia | a wistful desire to return in thought to a former time in one's life, to one's home or homeland |
ominous | foreshadowing evil or harm, threatening |
sustainability | the ability to be supported, upheld or confirmed |
initiative | an introductory act or step, leading action |
curmudgeon | a bad tempered, difficult, cantankerous person |
denounce | to condemn or censure openly or publicly |