| Question | Answer |
| PAINSTAKING
"painstacking research" | THOROUGH; CAREFUL; PRECISE |
| NOTORIOUS
"a notorious gangster" | infamous; widley known and usually unfavorably |
| Utopia
"To a warden, utopia is an escape-proof jail" | an imaginary and remote place of perfection |
| Privy
"a privy place to rest and think" | confidential; secret |
| Epitome
"he is seen...as the epitome of the right-of-central intellectual" | a model; a typification; a represenation |
| Ornate
"ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato" | elaborate; lavish; decorated |
| Plethora
"a plethora of workers helped make this possible" | an extreme excess or abundance
an extreme excess or abundance |
| Derivative
"a highly derivative prose style" | taken directly from a source; unoriginal |
| Forbearance
"he needs a calm forbearance until his rage slows" | patience; self-restraint |
| Gallivant
"gallivanting around town in his new car" | to wander; to roam about in search of amusement |
| Nebulous
"nebulous distinction betwwen pride and conceit" | vaguely defined; cloudy |
| Quagmire
"he was struggling in the deepening quagmire of the Algerian war" | a messy, difficult situation |
| Surmise
"I surmised that the butler did it" | to infer with little evidence |
| Extol
"extol the virtues of one's children" | to praise; to revere |
| Lurid
"a lurid account of the crime" | ghastly; gruesome; sensational |
| Usurp
"usurp a neighbor's land" | to seize by force; to take possession of without right |
| Succinct
"a succinct reply", "a succinct style" | marked by compact precision |
| Ingratiate
"She quickly sought to ingratiate herself with the new administration" | to gain favor with someone by conscious effort |
| Myriad
"the myriad fish in the ocean", "the myriad life of the metropolis" | numerous, countless, (n.) a very large number |
| Cognizant
"our youth are cognizant of the law" | aware, mindful |
| Deprecate
"The teacher should not deprecate his student's efforts" | to belittle; to depreciate |
| Corroborate
"We have no records to support and corroborate what we deliver" | to support with evidence; to make more certain |
| Invective
"he let loose at him with a mess of invective about writers" | abusive, reproachful, or accusatory language |
| Bane
"the bane of my life" | source of harm or ruin |
| Rhapsodize
"poets who know no better rhapsodize about the peace of nature" | to be overly enthusiastic about something |
