Group 14

Question 1

Acquiesce

Answer 1

Accept something reluctantly without protest

A kiss….ree accepts my kiss reluctantly

Question 2

Adroit

Answer 2

quick or skillful or adept in action or thought

adroit sounds like a droid….droids are more skillful than humans

Question 3

Amend

Answer 3

Improve by minor change

Question 4

Animus

Answer 4

A feeling of ill will arousing active hostility

‘enemy-us’…..enemies are always hostile around us

Question 5

Apologist

Answer 5

A person who offers an argument in defense of something controversial/defender

Question 6

Astringent

Answer 6

sharp or severe in manner/causing th econtractionn of skin cells and other body tissues

Question 7

Competent

Answer 7

Efficient and capable

Question 8

Deride

Answer 8

Ridicule

Question 9

elitist

Answer 9

Demonstrating a superior attitude or behavior associated with an elite

Question 10

Exacting

Answer 10

Demanding/inflict on someone

Question 11

Flummoxed

Answer 11

Bewildered or perplexed

Question 12

Inborn

Answer 12

Natural to a person, or animal

Question 13

Polymath

Answer 13

A person of wide knowledge or learning

Question 14

Reticent

Answer 14

Reserved, not revealing one’s feelings readily

Question 15

Stringent

Answer 15

Strict, precise and exacting

Question 16

Subservient

Answer 16

Prepared to obey others unquestioningly, subordinate

Question 17

Surreptitious

Answer 17

Keep secret, especially because it would not be approved of

Question 18

Tantalizing

Answer 18

Torment or tesing with sight or promise of something unobtainable

Question 19

Tantamount

Answer 19

Equivalent in seriousness to; virtually the same as

Question 20

Torpor

Answer 20

A state of physical or mental inactivity

Question 21

Trenchant

Answer 21

Vigorous or incisive in expression or style

Question 22

Umbrage

Answer 22

Offense or annoyance

Question 23

Wayward

Answer 23

difficult to control or predict because of willful or perverse behavior