List 7

Question 1

cower

Answer 1

cringe, shrink, flinch

“He did not cower even upon seeing the bear’s sharp, enormous teeth”

Question 2

baleful

Answer 2

menacing, harmful, hostile, minatory, internecine

“COVID-19 has had baleful effects on the educational system of the country”

Question 3

preen

Answer 3

clean, tidy

“I never understood why my mum would ask me to preen my room whenever we had guests over”

Question 4

lassitude

Answer 4

enervation, fatigue

“Overcome by lassitude, he hopped unto his bed right after the call ended”

Question 5

divest

Answer 5

deprive, strip, sell off assets

“Restricting the Champions League to a bunch of wealthy clubs would divest the tournament of its beauty”

Question 6

levity

Answer 6

humor, frivolity

“Josh’s spoken word performance brought some levity to the tensed council meeting”

Question 7

ford

Answer 7

cross

“With this gushing current, it would be impossible to ford the river”

Question 8

proscribe

Answer 8

prohibit, forbid

“In the 1970s, the government proscribed smoking in federal buildings”

Question 9

loll

Answer 9

sprawl, droop

“Excessively drunk, James lolled on the staircase as he waited for a taxi”

Question 10

impute

Answer 10

attribute, ascribe

“The rising sea levels over the past year have been imputed to climate change”

Question 11

macerate

Answer 11

mash, soften

“Maceration of ginger is quite tedious as it takes innumerable stages to complete”

Question 12

desultory

Answer 12

casual, cursory, superficial

“It was not surprising when his desultory work was rejected by the selection committee”

Question 13

epicure

Answer 13

connoisseur

“As an epicure of cheesecakes, Matthew could smell an exceptional one from a mile away”

Question 14

rebuff

Answer 14

reject, decline, repudiate, occlude, abrogate

“Morocco’s request to join the EU in the 1990s was rebuffed, leaving the country disjointed from any association”

Question 15

redoubtable

Answer 15

formidable, fearsome

“I don’t see Arsenal as a redoubtable contender to this year’s league title”

Question 16

metaphysical

Answer 16

abstract, theoretical

“To understand this concept you should not only focus on the metaphysical aspects but also the practical experiments”

Question 17

syncretism

Answer 17

fusion, conflation

“Behavioural economics is a syncretism of concepts from both psychology and economics”

Question 18

rococo

Answer 18

ornate, fancy

“If the house is listed for more than $10 million, I expect nothing less than rococo furniture and design”

Question 19

nebulous

Answer 19

unclear, vague

“Though the rationale behind his theory was nebulous, I admired its practicality”

Question 20

synoptic

Answer 20

general, summarized, precis(n)

“My manager asked for a synoptic update of my project two weeks before the deadline”

Question 21

surfeit

Answer 21

excess, surplus, plethora, slew

“When questioned about his lateness, he gave a surfeit of reasons of which none was logical”

Question 22

fugacious

Answer 22

fleeting, temporary

“Life is like a rollercoaster, full of fugacious experiences “

Question 23

mawkish

Answer 23

sentimental, overemotional

“Mostly stolid when watching movies, Kojo was mawkish after seeing ‘Soul’ “

Question 24

bleak

Answer 24

unpromising, inauspicious

“Due to the bleak nature of his ailment, he was transferred to the ER”

Question 25

dank

Answer 25

musty, damp

“With no exposure to light, the room had become so dank that mold were flourishing in it”

Question 26

stentorian

Answer 26

loud, thunderous

“The stentorian announcement from the PA system startled him off his seat”

Question 27

axiomatic

Answer 27

undeniable, self-evident, patent

“With Real Madrid’s current form, it is axiomatic that Cristiano’s departure left a huge dent in the team’s quality”

Question 28

ill-conceived

Answer 28

shoddy
“These mechanics cannot be trusted. I will stay and observe as they work so they do not do an ill-conceived job on my car”