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Question 1

abrogate

Answer 1

to formally abolish (revoke)

Question 2

abstemious

Answer 2

moderate in eating and drinking (ascetic)

Question 3

acumen

Answer 3

keen insight (discernment)

Question 4

antebellum

Answer 4

before the war (especially the American civil war)

Question 5

auspicious

Answer 5

promising success (propitious)

Question 6

belie

Answer 6

to be in contradiction with (misrepresent)

Question 7

bellicose

Answer 7

eager to fight (pugnacious)

Question 8

bowdlerize

Answer 8

to remove objectionable content from a written work (expurgate)

Question 9

chicanery

Answer 9

artful deception (subterfuge)

Question 10

abjure

Answer 10

to formally reject a belief (recant)

Question 11

chromosome

Answer 11

threadlike DNA-containing structure

Question 12

churlish

Answer 12

lacking manner (boorish)

Question 13

circumlocution

Answer 13

indirect expression (rambling)

Question 14

circumnavigate

Answer 14

to travel around

Question 15

deciduous

Answer 15

shedding seasonally (ephemeral)

Question 16

deleterious

Answer 16

harmful to death (injurious)

Question 17

diffident

Answer 17

lacking self-confidence (unassertive)

Question 18

enervate

Answer 18

to weaken mentally or morally; lacking strength

Question 19

enfranchise

Answer 19

to set free; to grant the right to vote

Question 20

epiphany

Answer 20

sudden realization