Question | Answer |
8 Concoct | 1. To mix ingredients, as in cooking.
2. To invent or devise |
8 Cuisine | 1. A characteristic style of cooking |
8 Precocious | 1. Showing unusually early development, especially mentally. |
8 Carnivorous | 1. Meat-eating |
8 Herbivorous | 1. Plant-eating |
8 Voracious | 1. Extremely hungry; greedy
2. Eager for some activity or interest |
8 Mellifluous | 1. Sweet as honey (referring to voice or words) |
8 Saline | 1. Having to do with salt |
8 Imbibe | 1. To drink
2. To absorb; to take in. |
8 Potable | 1. Fit to drink |
8 Potion | A liquid for drinking, especially a medicinal, magic, or poisonous drink |
8 Allude | 1. To make an indirect reference to |
8 Collusion | 1. A secret agreement for a deceitful purpose; conspiracy. |
8 Delusion | 1. A false belief or opinion, especially one held in spite of contradictory
evidence |
8 Elude | 1. To avoid or escape from by cunning; to evade
2. To escape detection; to baffle |
7 Domicile | 1. A home; residence. |
7 Domestic | 1. Related to the family or household |
7 Domain | 1. Range of one's control; territory |
7 Domineer | 1. To dominate; to be bossy |
7 Dominion | 1. Control; rule; area of influence. |
7 Dormant | 1. Asleep; not in an active state |
7 Somnambulate | 1. To walk while sleeping |
7 Somnolent | 1. Drowsy; Sleepy
2. Causing Sleep |
7 Ablution | 1. Washing of the body, especially as a ritual purification |
7 Deluge | 1. A downpour; a great flood |
7 Divest | 1. To take away something belonging to someone, especially a right,
title, or property; to dispossess
2. To strip away especially clothes |
7 Investiture | 1. A ceremony in which a person formally receives the authority
and symbols of an office |
7 Travesty | 1. An absurd or inferior imitation |
7 Vestment | 1. A garment that indicates position or authority, especially the
robes worn by clergy |
7 Vested | 1. A concern for something from which a person expects to get
personal benefit (used with interest)
2. Dressed, especially in vestments
3. Absolute; without question. |
6 Antipathy | 1. A hatred or dislike |
6 Apathy | 1. Lack of feeling, energy, or interest.
2. Indifference. |
6 Empathy | 1. The ability to identify with someone else and understand that
person's situation of feelings |
6 Pathological | 1. Referring to pathology, the study of disease.
2. Caused by disease.
3. Abnormal in behavior. |
6 Pathos | 1. Feeling of sympathy; a quality that arouses pity or tenderness. |
6 Misogamy | 1. Hatred of marriage. |
6 Misogyny | 1. Hatred of women. |
6 Dysentery | 1. Severe diarrhea |
6 Dyslexia | 1. A serious difficulty learning to read in the usual way |
6 Covet | 1. To crave or desire, especially something belonging to someone else |
6 Cupidity | 1. Greed; avarice |
6 Complacent | 1. Self-satisfied; Smug |
6 Implacable | 1. Impossible to calm or appease |
6 Placate | 1. To Calm; to pacify; to appease |
6 Placid | 1. Showing calmness, peacefulness or composure |
5 Amicable | 1. Friendly; peaceable |
5 Amity | 1. Friendship; friendly relations |
5 Enamored | 1. In love with; charmed by |
5 Inimical | 1. Harmful
2. Hostile; unfriendly |
5 Odious | 1. Hateful; distasteful |
5 Bibliophile | 1. A lover of books |
5 Philanthropy | 1. Goodwill to fellow human beings
2. A charitable gift, act, or organization |
5 Phobia | 1. Strong, irrational fear |
5 Acrophobia | 1. At the farthest point (usually referring to height) |
5 Hydrophobia | 1. Fear of water |
5 Xenophobia | 1. Fear or hatred of what is strange or foreign, or of foreigners. |
5 Appease | 1. To calm; to satisfy or relieve |
5 Pacific | 1. Peaceful; serene |
5 Pacify | 1. To calm; to make quiet
2. To end war or violence |
4 Puerile | 1. Childish; immature |
4 Orthopedics | 1. Branch of medicine treating disorders of the skeletal system and
tissues related to movement |
4 Pedagogue | 1. A teacher |
4 Pedant | 1. A person who pays excessive attention to learning rules rather than to understanding
2. A scholarly show-off |
4 Entity | 1. Something that has a real or independent existence |
4 Nonentity | 1. A person or thing of no importance
2. Something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |
4 Essence | 1. The basic element; the identifying characteristic
2. A substance in concentrated form obtained from a plant or drug
3. A perfume |
4 Moribund | 1. About to die or end |
4 Mortify | 1. To shame
2. To discipline oneself by denial |
4 Postmortem | 1. An examination to determine the cause of death; an autopsy |
4 Euthanasia | 1. The act of painlessly killing a suffering person or animal; mercy |
4 Innate | 1. Possessed at birth; inborn |
4 Naive | 1. Childlike; unsophisticated
2. Gullible |
4 Nascent | 1. Emerging; coming into existence |
4 Renaissance | 1. A rebirth; a renewal
2. (Capitalize) A revival of humanism in fourteenth (14th) century
to sixteenth (16th) century Europe |
3 Matrix | 1. The surroundings within which something begins or develops |
3 Matriarchy | 1. A society ruled or controlled by women |
3 Matriculate | 1. To register as a student at a college or university |
3 Patriarch | 1. The male head of a family or tribe
2. An Old Testament ancestor
3. A founding father or wise man |
3 Patrimony | 1. A family inheritance |
3 Patronage | 1. Support; encouragement
2. business clientele; customers |
3 Patronize | 1. To go to regularly
2. To treat someone as an inferior |
3 Patronymic | 1. Name derived from a paternal ancestor |
3 Fraternal | 1. Pertaining to brothers; brotherly |
3 Fraternize | 1. To be friendly with
2. To socialize with an enemy population |
3 Avuncular | 1. Like an uncle |
3 Familia | 1. Having to do with the family |
3 Uxorious | 1. Dominated by one's wife |
3 Bigamy | 1. Marriage to two mates |
3 Monogamy | 1. Marriage to a single mate |
2 Genealogy | 1. A record of descent from one's ancestors; the study of family records |
2 Genocide | 1.The planned annihilation of a racial, political, or cultural group |
2 Genre | 1. A type, class, or category, especially of fine art or literature |
2 Genteel | 1. Well-mannered; refined; polite. |
2 Gentile | 1. Anyone not of the Jewish faith |
2 Gentry | 1. Aristocratic or well-bred people.
2. In Britain, the class under the aristocracy. |
2 Heterogeneous | 1. Having parts that are unrelated or completely different
Antonym/Opposite: homogeneous |
2 Homogeneous | 1. Of the same kind or sort
Antonym/Opposite: heterogeneous |
2 Congenital | 1. Existing at birth but not hereditary |
2 Engender | 1. To give rise to; to bring into existence |
2 Genesis | 1. A beginning or origin
2. Genesis - The first book of the Old Testament |
2 Indigenous | 1. Occurring in or characterizing an area; native |
2 Ingenious | 1. Cleverly inventive and resourceful |
2 Progenitor | 1. A direct ancestor: an originator of a line of descent |
2 Progeny | 1. Children or descendants; offspring.
The results of artistic creativity |
1 Humane | 1. Having the worthy qualities of human beings, such as kindness or
compassion Antonym: inhumane |
1 Humanism | 1. A philosophy in which interests and values of human beings are of
primary importance |
1 Humanities | 1. Branches of knowledge concerned with human beings and
their culture: philosophy, literature, and the fine arts, as distinguished
from the sciences |
1 Anthropology | 1. The scientific study of the origins, cultural development, and
customs of human beings |
1 Misanthrope | 1. A person who hates all people |
1 Homicide | 1. The killing of one person by another; a person who kills another. |
1 Virile | 1. Having certain characteristics traditionally associated with
masculinity, especially physical strength, vitality, and assertiveness. |
1 Gynecology | 1. The branch of medicine dealing with disorders and treatment of the
reproductive system in women. |
1 Feminism | 1. The belief that women should possess the same political and economic rights as men. |
1 Feminist | 1. A supporter of women's claims to the same rights and treatment as men. |
1 Autocrat | 1. A ruler who has absolute or unlimited power; a despot. |
1 Automaton | 1. A person who behaves in a mechanical, routine manner; a robot. |
1 Autonomy | 1. The condition of being self-governing; independence |
1 Autopsy | 1. The examination of a corpse to determine the cause of death. |
1 Egoism | 1. Conceit; valuing everything according to one's personal interest;
excessive confidence in the rightness of one' own opinion. |
9 Capitalist | 1. A person who has invested personal wealth in business.
2. A very wealthy person |
9 Capitulation | 1. Surrender; ending resistance |
9 Decapitate | 1. To cut off the head of; to behead |
9 Precipice | 1. A very steep or vertical face of a cliff or rock |
9 Precipitate | 1. To throw down from a great height
2. To make happen suddenly or quickly |
9 Recapitulation | 1. The restatement of a main idea
2. A summary or concise review |
9 Cerebral | 1. Pertaining to the brain
2. Intellectual |
9 Cerebration | 1. The action of thinking thought |
9 Deface | 1.To mar or spoil the appearance or surface of (something) |
9 Efface | 1. To wipe out; to obliterate. Also, to make less clear, as if rubbing out
2. To make oneself inconspicuous |
9 Facade | 1. A face of a building
2. The face or front of anything, especially an artificial or false front |
9 Facet | 1. One of the many sides of a cut stone or jewel
2. One aspect of a situation, or of a tooth |
9 Affront | 1. To insult intentionally; to offend or embarrass
2. An insult or offensive act |
9 Confront | 1. To stand or come directly in front of
2. To face with defiance or hostility |
9 Effrontery | 1. Flippant or insulting boldness, audacity |
10 Supercilious | 1. Disdainful; haughty and aloof.
(A lifted eyebrow conveys and impression of haughtiness) |
10 Inexorable | 1. Relentless; unyielding |
10 Oracle | 1. A shrine where the ancient Greeks consulted one of their gods for advice or prophecy
2. A prophecy made at such a shrine
3. A person who transmits prophecy from a deity
4. A person or thing regarded as able to give wise guidance |
10 Oration | 1. An address or formal speech given on a special occasion |
10 Orifice | 1. A mouth or vent / an opening |
10 Osculate | 1. To Kiss (usually used playfully) |
10 Indentation | 1. A cut or notch |
10 Indenture | 1. A written contract between two parties
2. An agreement binding an apprentice to work for a master |
10 Trident | 1. A long three-pronged fork or weapon |
10 Orthodontist | 1. A specialist who corrects irregularly positioned teeth |
10 Gorge | 1. A deep, narrow passage with rocky sides, enclosed between mountains
2. Gluttonous eating
3. A feeling of nausea (used with rise)
* To eat greedily
* To fill full; to stuff |
10 Disgorge | 1. To expel from the throat or stomach; to vomit
2. To discharge violently |
10 Gargantuan | 1. Of immense size; gigantic |
10 Gargoyle | 1. A Grotesque carved human or animal figure, especially one used as a rainspout carrying water clear of a wall |
10 Regurgitate | 1. To cause to pour back or cast up partially digested food; to vomit
2. To rush or surge back |
11 Carnage | 1. The killing of many people; massacre |
11 Carrion | 1. Dead amd decaying flesh
2. Pertaining to dead flesh |
11 Incarnate | 1. Embodied in human form |
11 Accolade | 1. Any honor, award, or expression of approval
2. A ceremonial tap on the shoulder with the flat side of a sword |
11 Decolletage | 1. A low neckline on a garment or a garment with a low neck line |
11 Corporal | 1. Relating to or having an effect on the human bod |
11 Corporeal | 1. Characteristic of or resembling the physical body
2. Having material substance; able to be seen |
11 Corps | 1. A military organization of officers or of officers and enlistees
2. An army unit
3. a group of people having purpose and direction in common |
11 Corpulent | 1. Excessively bulky; fat |
11 Corpus | 1. A body or collection of Writings
2. A structure of special character in an animal body |
11 Accord | 1. Harmony, agreement
2, To grant or bestow upon
3. To agree |
11 Cordial | 1. Hearty; warm; sincere
2. Stimulating |
11 Concordance | 1. A state of agreement; harmony
2 An alphabetical index of all the words in a text or corpus of tests, showing every occurrence of a work |
11 Ossify | 1. To turn into bone; to become bony
2. To become rigid (in behavior, habits, or beliefs) |
12 Dermatology | 1. The scientific study of the skin and its diseases |
12 Epidermis | 1. The outer protective layer of the skin or outer layer of various organisms (In plants, the outer layer of cells) |
12 Dorsal | 1. Pertaining to the back, especially of animals |
12 Dossier | 1. A set of documents containing information about a person or event: A file |
12 Endorse | 1. To write one's signature on the back of a check or other document
2. To sign a contract
3. To acknowledge receipt of payment
4. To support actively; to sanction |
12 Gastric | 1. Pertaining to the stomach |
12 Gastronome | 1. A person who is knowledgeable about good food and drink; A gourmet |
12 Enervate | 1. To deprive of strength: to weaken |
12 Sanguine | 1. Cheerful; hopeful
2. Reddish or ruddy |
12 Consanguinity | 1. Blood relationship
2. Any close relationship |
12 Assiduous | 1. Unceasingly attentive; devoted
2. Persistent; diligent |
12 Dissident | 1. Differing; disagreeing; dissenting |
12 Seance | 1. A meeting at which a spiritualist attempts to communicate with the dead |
12 Sedentary | 1. Characterized by much sitting
2. Remaining in one area; not migratory |
12 Supersede | 1. To take the place of; to replace |
13 Emancipate | 1. To free from restraint or influence
2. To free (a slave) from bondage |
13 Manacle | 1. A device for confining the hands; handcuffs
2. Anything that contains |
13 Mandate | 1. A formal order from higher court; an authoritative command |
13 Manifest | 1. Clearly apparent to sight or understanding; obvious
2. To show plainly; to reveal
3. To prove |
13 Manipulate | 1. To use or handle skillfully
2. To manage with devious skill, or to adjust to suit one's purpose |
13 Dexterity | 1. Skill in use of the hands or body; adroitness
2. Mental skill or adroitness; cleverness |
13 Ambidextrous | 1. Able to use either hand equally well |
13 Digital | 1. Relating to a finger or a unit of measure (3/4") the breadth of a finger
2. Refering to a nemerical system for encoding |
13 Deflect | 1. To turn aside
2. To swerve or turn aside |
13 Genuflect | 1. To bend the knee in a kneeling or half-kneeling position to express or respect |
13 Inflection | 1. An alteration of pitch or tone of the voice
2. in grammar, an alteration of the form of a word to show different grammatical or syntactical relationships |
13 Reflection | 1. The act or condition of being thrown back
2. Something thrown back, as light, heat, sound, or an image
3. Discredit; inderect reproach
4. Deep thought |
13 Rapacious | 1. Excessively grasping or greedy
2. Given to seizing for plunder or as prey |
13 Rapt | 1. Giving one's compklete attention
2. Overcome with emotion; completely filled with joy |
13 Surreptitious | 1. Done secretly, without approval |
14 Complicity | 1. Participation with another in an act that is or seems to be deceitful |
14 Duplicty | 1. Deceitfulness in speech or conduct; double-dealing
2. Being physical or numerically double or two-fold; doubleness |
14 Explicate | 1. To make clear; to explain throughly, often in a literary context |
14 Explict | 1. Definite; stated in detail, leaving nothing to be guessed at; outspoken |
14 Exploit | 1. A notable or heroic deed
2. To make use of selfishly or unethical
3. To publicize |
14 Imply | 1. To indicate inderectly; to hint
2. To require as a necessary condition |
14 Ploy | 1. A tactic intended to frustrate, embarrass or gain an advantage over an opponent |
14 Ply | 1. To use a tool or weapon vigorously; to work at trade
2. To offer something persistently
3. The thickness of cloth, yarn,or rope
4. Wood layered with crosswise grain |
14 Supplicate | 1. To ask humbly or earnestly for, as in praying; to beseech |
14 Apprehend | 1. To arrest
2. To grasp mentally; to understand
3. To anticipate with anxiety |
14 Comprise | 1.To consist of; to contain |
14 Entreperneur | 1. A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for business ventures |
14 Impregnable | 1. Strong enough to resist attack of capture, as a fortress
2.Not to be outweighed or overcome in argument |
14 Reprehend | 1. To reprimand, reprove, or express disapproval |
14 Reprisal | 1. An action or act of retaliation against someone for injuries received |