| Question |
Answer |
| archaeology |
the study of ancient life |
| biology |
study of life |
| cosmology |
study of the universe |
| etymology |
study of word origins |
| genealogy |
study of family origins |
| veracity |
truthfulness |
| Malcontent |
a person who is rebellious |
| Meander |
to follow a winding course |
| Mendicant |
a beggar |
| Mettle |
courage and fortitude |
| Mimic |
to imitate |
| Mollify |
appease the anger/ anxiety of someone |
| Morose |
sullen and ill-tempered |
| Mundane |
ordinary |
| Nadir |
lowest point of something |
| Noisome |
having an extremely offensive smell |
| Obdurate |
stubbornly refusing to change an opinion or action |
| Oblique |
neither parallel nor at a right angle |
| Equivocate |
to lie by using ambiguous language |
| Ethereal |
extremely delicate, light, airy |
| Evoke |
to call forth |
| Expedite |
speed up |
| Extinct |
not existing anymore, died out |
| Facile |
performing with ease |
| Fallacy |
a mistaken belief |
| Feign |
to pretend |
| Frugal |
sparing with regard to money or food, cheap |
| Fulsome |
excessive, overdone praise |
| Garrulous |
excessively talkative |
| Gregarious |
fond of company |
| Gullible |
easily persuaded to believe something |
| Hamper |
To hinder; To get in the way of; To interfere with |
| Haughty |
Arrogantly superior |
| Heinous |
Utterly wicked |
| Hew |
Chop or cut with an axe, pick, or other tools |
| Ignoble |
Not honorable in purpose |
| Immaculate |
Perfectly clean |
| Impair |
Weaken or damage |
| Impede |
Hinder |
| Inane |
Silly, stupid |
| Incite |
Stir up violent behavior |
| Incredulous |
Unable to believe something |
| Cogent |
clear, logical, convincing (of an argument) |
| Colloquial |
used in ordinary conversation |
| Concur |
to agree |
| Console |
to comfort |
| Copious |
plentiful |
| Corporeal |
of or relating to a person’s body |
| Counterfeit |
fake |
| Credulous |
gullible |
| Defer |
postpone |
| Deplete |
to lessen |
| Deter |
discourage |
| Dexterous |
nimble, clever |
| Dilemma |
problem |
| Obstreperous |
noisy and difficult to control |
| Odious |
Extremely unpleasant |
| Opulent |
Luxurious or lavish |
| Ostracize |
to exclude |
| Palpable |
able to be touched or felt |
| Panegyric |
a speech written in praise for someone |
| Paragon |
a person or thing represented as a perfect example |
| Paramount |
most important |
| Pathos |
a quality that evokes pity or sadness |
| Perfidious |
untrustworthy |
| Peripatetic |
walking |
| Pernicious |
extremely harmful |
| Petty |
of little importance |
| Ameliorate |
to make better or more bearable |
| Anomaly |
something out of the ordinary; irregular |
| Antediluvian |
belonging to the time before the biblical flood. |
| Antithesis |
the opposite |
| Apex |
top or highest part of something. |
| Apocryphal |
doubtful in authenticity |
| Ardor |
passion |
| Assuage |
to lessen the intensity of, to ease |
| Astute |
assess situations or people to turn in their advantage. |
| Autocrat |
a ruler who has absolute power. |
| Avarice |
greed |
| Avuncular |
of or relating to an uncle. |
| Bellicose |
warlike. |
| Indelible |
permanent |
| Indolent |
lazy |
| Innocuous |
harmless |
| Intrepid |
fearless |
| Ire |
anger |
| Jocular |
funny |
| Jubilant |
joyful |
| Laudable |
deserving praise |
| Lax |
loose; not strict |
| Lexicon |
dictionary |
| Lithe |
graceful |
| Loquacious |
given to fluent or excessive talk |
| Lucid |
understandable, clear |
| Diminutive |
Small |
| Discreet |
Prudent, modest or unobtrusive |
| Discrete |
Separate from others |
| Divulge |
To tell |
| Dormant |
In a deep sleep |
| Dross |
Rubbish |
| Edible |
Consumable |
| Egress |
A way to leave |
| Elegy |
A poem for the dead |
| Empathy |
identification with another's situation |
| Engender |
To bring forth |
| Enmity |
a feeling of hostility |
| Abet |
to aid |
| Abjure |
to renounce, to give something up |
| Abstemious |
temperate in diet |
| Accede |
to agree to |
| Acquiesce |
to assent tacitly, to comply without protest |
| Acrid |
bitterly pungent |
| Adamant |
hard, stubborn |
| Affable |
friendly |
| Agile |
nimble, quick |
| Redoubtable |
intimidating |
| Regicide |
the act of killing a king |
| Repugnant |
offensive |
| Ruminate |
to think deeply |
| Sage |
a wise person |
| Sanguine |
1. cheerful |
| Serendipity |
the occurrence of events by chance in a happy way |
| Shrewd |
keen |
| Smite |
strike |
| Solace |
comfort in a time of distress |
| Soporific |
inducing drowsiness or sleep |
| Squalid |
extremely dirty |
| Stealthy |
sneaky |
| Vex |
irritate, annoy |
| Wan |
pale |
| Wane |
to decrease in size |
| Wax |
to increase in size |
| Pied |
having patches of two or more colors, as a horse or bird |
| Pique |
anger |
| Plea |
an appeal, an excuse |
| Potent |
powerful |
| Precocious |
developing before others |
| Prim |
neat and trim |
| Protean |
readily taking on varied shapes |
| Prudent |
wise in practical affairs |
| Pugnacious |
combative in nature |
| Query |
a question or inquiry |
| Rapacious |
Greedy, ravenous |
| Raze |
to tear down |
| Submerge |
to put below water |
| Subtle |
mysterious, cunning |
| Taciturn |
inclined to silence |
| Tenacious |
stubborn persistent |
| Torpid |
inactive |
| Transient |
not lasting |
| Travail |
hard work |
| Trepidation |
alarm |
| Truculent |
fierce |
| Ubiquitous |
being everywhere |
| Unctuous |
smooth and greasy in texture or appearance, smug |
| Usurp |
to seize and hold without legal right |
| Valor |
courage |
| Veneer |
a thin layer of wood |
| verbose |
wordy |
| visage |
aspect |
| vivify |
quicken |
| zealot |
fanatic |
| zephyr |
a gentle breeze |
| Benefactor |
a person who gives aid especially financial aid |
| Benighted |
overcome by darkness |
| Benign |
good |
| Blatant |
loud |
| Blithe |
happy |
| Boon |
a gift |
| Breach |
(n) a break (v) to break |
| Cacophony |
a jarring sound |
| Candid |
informal, unposed |
| Capitulate |
to give up resistance |
| Chaff |
the husks of grain and grasses that are separated during threshing |
| Circumlocution |
talking in a roundabout way |
| Garrulous |
excessively talking |
| Hereunto |
to this document |
| Dilapidated |
in a state of ruin |
| Narrative |
spoken or written about connected events |
| Finesse |
refined delicacy |
| Cipher |
a code |
| Ornery |
bad tempered |
| Furnaces |
a structure in which the material can be heated |
| Jest |
done for amusement |
| Lattice |
a structures consisting of strips of metal and wood crossing each other |
| Awry |
away from the expected or proper direction |
| Unrequited |
(of a feeling, esp. love) not returned or rewarded. |
| Sagacity |
the quality of being sagacious |
| Prospect |
search for mineral deposits in a place, esp. by means of Experimental drilling and excavation |
| Abide |
accept or act in accordance |
| Accordance |
in a manner conforming with |
| Sagacious |
having or showing keen mental discernment and good judgment; shrewd |
| Magnanimously |
very generous or forgiving |
| Lath |
a thin flat strip of wood |
| Accordance |
in a manner confirming with |
| Imperishable |
enduring forever |
| Consternation |
feelings of anxiety |
| Invariably |
in every case |
| Dumfounded |
greatly amazed |
| Tract |
an area of extent |
| Admonish |
warn or reprimand someone firmly |
| Nitroglycerin |
an explosive yellow liquid |
| Adjoining |
joined with |
| digress |
to stray from the main point |
| coup d'etat |
an overthrow of a government (coo-day-ta) |
| Surplus |
an amount if something left over |
| Compensate |
make up for something unwelcome |
| Clamor |
a loud and confused noise |
| Deceit |
the action of deceiving someone |
| Divulge |
make known |
| Despondent |
in low spirits from loss of courage |
| Excitable |
responding rather too readily to something |
| Ingenious |
have solidified from lava or magma |
| Abhor |
regard with disgust |
| Apparition |
a ghost or a ghostlike image of a person |
| Myopic |
nearsightedness |
| Prolific |
producing much fruit or foliage |
| Nefarious |
wicked or criminal |
| Meager |
lacking in quantity or quality |
| Lackadaisical |
lacking enthusiasm |
| Irate |
feeling characterized by anger |
| Curmudgeon |
a bad tempered person |
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