| Question |
Answer |
| Capricious |
Characterized by or subject to whim; impulsive and unpredictable |
| Conjecture |
Inference or judgment based on inconclusive or incomplete evidence; guesswork |
| Derision |
Contemptuous or jeering laughter; ridicule |
| Emulate |
To strive to equal or excel, especially through imitation |
| Fitful |
Occurring in or characterized by intermittent bursts, as of activity; irregular |
| Hapless |
Luckless; unfortunate |
| Inarticulate |
Uttered without the use of normal words or syllables; incomprehensible as speech or language |
| Lexicon |
A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary |
| Permeable |
That can be permeated or penetrated, especially by liquids or gases |
| Ruddy |
Having a healthy, reddish color |
| Stupor |
A state of reduced or suspended sensibility |
| Venial |
Easily excused or forgiven; pardonable |
| Benign |
Of a kind and gentle disposition |
| Carafe |
A glass or metal bottle, often with a flared lip, used for serving water or wine |
| Consort |
A husband or wife, especially the spouse of a monarch |
| Fledgling |
A young bird that has recently acquired its flight feathers |
| Harbinger |
One that indicates or foreshadows what is to come; a forerunner |
| Incorrigible |
Incapable of being corrected or reformed |
| Liaison |
An instance or a means of communication between different groups or units of an organization, especially in the armed forces. |
| Pernicious |
Tending to cause death or serious injury; deadly |
| Enigma |
One that is puzzling, ambiguous, or inexplicable |
| Indigent |
Experiencing want or need; impoverished |
| Lithe |
Readily bent; supple |
| Notorious |
Known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous |
| Plethora |
A superabundance; an excess |
| Rustic |
Of, relating to, or typical of country life or country people |
| Vertigo |
The sensation of dizziness |
| Admonish |
To reprove gently but earnestly |
| Cataclysm |
A violent upheaval that causes great destruction or brings about a fundamental change |
| Cower |
To cringe in fear |
| Discernible |
Perceptible, as by the faculty of vision or the intellect |
| Florid |
Flushed with rosy color; ruddy |
| Hermitage |
A place where one can live in seclusion; a retreat |
| Innocuous |
Having no adverse effect; harmless |
| Livid |
Discolored, as from a bruise; black-and-blue |
| Numismatist |
The study or collection of money, coins, and often medals |
| Prodigal |
Rashly or wastefully extravagant |
| Sadistic |
The deriving of sexual gratification or the tendency to derive sexual gratification from inflicting pain or emotional abuse on others |
| Sylvan |
Relating to or characteristic of woods or forest regions |
| Unanimity |
The condition of being unanimous |
| Obliterate |
To do away with completely so as to leave no trace |
| Schism |
A separation or division into factions |
| Taint |
To affect with or as if with a disease |
| Uncanny |
Peculiarly unsettling, as if of supernatural origin or nature; eerie |
| Allay |
To reduce the intensity of; relieve |
| Bleak |
Providing no encouragement; depressing |
| Crestfallen |
Dispirited and depressed; dejected |
| Eviscerate |
To remove the entrails of; disembowel |
| Fortuitous |
Happening by accident or chance |
| Hedonism |
Pursuit of or devotion to pleasure, especially to the pleasures of the senses |
| Itinerant |
Traveling from place to place, especially to perform work or a duty |
| Offal |
Waste parts, especially of a butchered animal |
| Puerile |
Belonging to childhood; juvenile |
| Scrupulous |
Conscientious and exact; painstaking |
| Tawdry |
Gaudy and cheap in nature or appearance |
| Visage |
The face or facial expression of a person; countenance |
| Allege |
To assert to be true; affirm |
| Bludgeon |
A short heavy club, usually of wood, that is thicker or loaded at one end |
| Cauterize |
To burn or sear with a cautery |
| Exhume |
To remove from a grave; disinter |
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