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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| obviate | remove a need or difficulty; to prevent or make unneccessary |
| obviate | His new raise ____ the financial sting of the increase in his tuition bill. |
| disabuse | to set right; free from error |
| disabuse | By creating the program descriptor cards she ___ the misleading terms others were using for her program. |
| specious | deceptively attractive; seem plausible but false |
| specious | The ___ Dutch abortion ship is thought of as a mercy ship by many- but the hidden mental anguish some of the women feel afterward is anything but merciful. |
| craven | contemptibly lacking in courage; cowardly |
| craven | The specious Wormtongue finally reavealled his true colors; not only was he not a true leader but his _______ behaviour of cowardice was contemptible. |
| simper | coy or ingratiating smile or gesture |
| simper | Bingley's sister _____ toward Darcy thinking he would find her coquettish behavior attractive. |
| recreant | (archaic) cowardly |
| recreant | The ____ lion just wanted courage from the Great Oz. |
| diffident | modest or shy because of a lack of self- confidence |
| diffident | I find it painfult to watch the ________ students in a performance role, if only they had some self-confidence. |
| mordant | having or showing a sharp or critical quality (esp. of humor); biting |
| mordant | His _____ jokes were looked upon with remorse by the gathered sisters. |
| dudgeon | a feeling of offense or deep resentment |
| dudgeon | The _______ he felt after his brother's betrayal made my feelings of resentment look like child's play. |
| asperity | harshness of tone or manner |
| asperity | The ________ with which he spoke to her was so uncalled for; she had been left to do the job with no instruction or parameters given. |
| moribund | (of a person) at the point of death |
| moribund | The poor ________ man was the last of the villagers, and he too was meeting the same end the rest had had. |
| prolix | (of speech or writing) using or containing too many words; tediously length |
| prolix | I find too many books from the 19nth century so _________ due to their lenghty desciptions of everything. |
| turgid | swollen and distended or congested, (of language or style) tediously pompous or bombastic |
| turgid | Elizabeth's cousin's proposal was so _______, it defied his humble vicar's frock and calling. |
| turgid | The ________waters of the river demonstrated the intensity of the storms upstream. |
| refractory | stubborn or unmanageable; resistant to a process or stimulus |
| refractory | In room 222 the new teacher met his match with the __________ students of his classroom. |
| antithetic | adj. directly opposed or contrasted; mutually incompatible; |
| antithetic | With the lack of bipartisanship one might conclude that the two parties are so _________ that we almost need two separate countries. |
| enjoin | instruct or urge (someone) to do something; |
| enjoin | The pastor strongly ___________ the couple to be instructed in NFP. |
| esurient | (archaic humorous) hungry or greedy |
| esurient | One must conclude that the hobbits are always ____________ with all of their in-between meals like elevensies! |
| venal | showing or motivated by susceptibility to bribery |
| venal | Why should these ______ and corrupted politicians care how they are rated? |
| forfend | (archaic) avert, keep away or prevent (something evil or unpleasant); protect (something) by precautionary measures. |
| forfend | In order to __________ the women and children Gandalf suggested that they all be moved to Helms Deep. |
| quintessence | the most perfect or typical example of a quality or class |
| quintessence | Mary truly is the __________ of being a handmaiden of the Lord. |
| platitude | a remark or statement, esp. one with a moral content, that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful; the quality of being dull, ordinary, or trite |
| platitude | She was sorry that the phrase had become such a __________ because it really did reflect wisdom but would not even be considered since it was "trite". |
| pedestrian | adj. lacking inspiration or excitement; dull |
| pedestrian | She did not even want to write a "Christmas" letter because their lives would sound so __________. |
| quotidian | adj. (attrib.) of or occurring every day; daily |
| quotidian | The ________lining up to receive their ration cards for the day's meals seemed such a waste of time and energy to her. |
| sententious | adj. given to moralizing in a pompous or affected manner |
| sententious | When would he learn that _________ speeches turned off his men, rather than inspiring them; they just saw him a a pompous fool. |
| apothegm | n. a concise saying or maxim; an aphorism |
| apothegm | The ________ John Paul II spoke to the seminarians spoke volumes in so few words. |
| fatuous | adj. silly and pointless |
| fatuous | Her _____________ stories seemed to have no value other than taking up time- what was the point? |
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