p19

Question 1

synoptic

Answer 1

Relating to a synopsis or summary; giving a general view

Question 2

table

Answer 2

Lay aside to discuss later, often as a way to postpone discussion indefinitely

The European Union will table a package of sanctions against Russia on Tuesday, including proposals to target individuals and banks.

Question 3

tacit

Answer 3

Understood without being said; implied, not stated directly; silent

Supporting a resistance would be a tacit admission that its policy to leave was a failure.

Question 4

taciturn

Answer 4

Not talking much, reserved; silent, holding back in conversation

Even the normally taciturn Clarence Thomas was moved to issue a rare public statement.

Question 5

tangential

Answer 5

Only slightly relevant, going off-topic

Some companies are tangential to semiconductor production but aid in getting them to market.
Their romance is tangential to the book’s main plot.

Question 6

tawdry

Answer 6

Gaudy, cheap or cheap-looking; indecent

Republican senators and disingenuous testimony by three recent Republican nominees have shamefully dragged the court down to the level of tawdry, hardball, partisan politics.

Question 7

temperance

Answer 7

Moderation, self-control, esp. regarding alcohol or other desires or pleasures; total abstinence from alcohol

The prohibition era is back, only this time, the temperance movement is targeting your carbon-producing sins.

Question 8

tendentious

Answer 8

Marked by a strong point of view, biased

After the Court overturned Roe v. Wade, your social-media feed might have included any number of tendentious PSAs.

Question 9

tenuous

Answer 9

Long and thin, slender; flimsy, having little substance

After the end of the crusading period, however relations between East and West had grown tenuous …

Question 10

terse

Answer 10

Concise, brief and to the point (sometimes to the point of rudeness)

… communication with his team was terse and brief.
The Democratic Party spokesperson Ben Anderson offered a terse comment on the agenda

Question 11

timorous

Answer 11

Fearful, timid

Democratic moderates are often portrayed by the left as timorous figures reluctant to take strong stands for fear of political retribution.
The hospital industry has been timorous about transparency

Question 12

tirade

Answer 12

Bitter, abusive criticism or verbal attack

He went into a tirade about the failures of the government.

Question 13

toady

Answer 13

Someone who flatters or acts in a servile manner for self-serving reasons

no one liked the office toady, who spent most of her time complimenting the boss on what a great job he was doing

Question 14

tome

Answer 14

Large or scholarly book; one of the volumes in a set of several books

Question 15

torpor

Answer 15

Sluggishness, lethargy, or apathy; a period of inactivity

after a lifetime of setbacks, defeats, and failures, he could only greet the latest bad news with a resigned fatalism and dull torpor

Question 16

torrid

Answer 16

Very hot, parching, burning; passionate

Multiples have increased at a torrid pace in some sectors over the last few years, especially in the middle market and above.

Question 17

tortuous

Answer 17

Twisting, winding, complex; devious, not straightforward

Question 18

tractable

Answer 18

Easily controlled or managed, docile; easily shaped or molded

Ukrainians are proving to be far less tractable to the application of military force than Putin expected.

Question 19

transgression

Answer 19

Violation of a law, moral rule, order, etc.; sin

The assault on the Capitol is hardly the former President’s first transgression.

Question 20

transitory

Answer 20

Temporary, short-lived, not lasting

Inflation, which economists once hoped was transitory, has proven to be anything but.

Question 21

travesty

Answer 21

a false, absurd, or distorted representation of something

But the presidency is the one office for which the entire country votes, and for it to be captured by a progressive fringe is a travesty.

Question 22

trenchant

Answer 22

forceful or vigorous, effective, keen; caustic, sharp

even the most trenchant sword could not sever the bonds of loyalty between them.
a trenchant view of current conditions

Question 23

trifling

Answer 23

Trivial, not very important; so small as to be unimportant; frivolous, shallow

deciding what you want to do for a living is no trifling matter

Question 24

trite

Answer 24

Lacking freshness and originality, lacking effectiveness due to overuse, cliché

Question 25

truculent

Answer 25

Fierce, cruel, savage; belligerent

But a growing and increasingly truculent segment of Iran’s population doubts the standoff is worth it.

Question 26

tumultuous

Answer 26

Riotous, violently agitated, marked by disturbance or uproar; noisy, chaotic

Investors are finding comfort in Apple’s stable earnings growth and strong balance sheet, even in these tumultuous times.

Question 27

turgid

Answer 27

Swollen, inflated; or, metaphorically “inflated,” such as in overblown, pompous speech

The man who would become known as the dean of American banking lawyers—an authority on the most arcane legal precedents and turgid regulatory subsections—started off wanting a literary life and found time to write whimsical poems.

Question 28

turpitude

Answer 28

Depravity, baseness of character, corrupt or depraved acts (야비함)

War became meaningless and simply barbaric, an occasion for moral compromise and turpitude.

Question 29

tyro

Answer 29

Beginner

he’s a good musician, but at 14, he’s still a tyro and has a lot to learn

Question 30

umbrage

Answer 30

Offense or annoyance (usually as take umbrage, meaning become offended or annoyed)

The First World War was not long in the past, and some rabid patriots took umbrage at the idea of a German-speaking filmmaker working in Hollywood.

Question 31

unconscionable

Answer 31

Not guided by conscience; morally wrong, unjust, unreasonable

… an unconscionable number of errors for an important government report

Question 32

unequivocal

Answer 32

Unambiguous, clear, absolute; having only one possible meaning

The science is unequivocal that the U.S. needs many more wind and solar farms — along with battery storage systems, electric cars and other clean energy technologies — to kick our fossil fuel habit and avoid climate catastrophe.

Question 33

unseemly

Answer 33

Improper, inappropriate, against the rules of taste or politeness

He spent unseemly amounts of money on himself.
The coronation ceremony usually takes a year because it’s seen as unseemly, really, to have a coronation ceremony straight after someone’s death.

Question 34

unsparing

Answer 34

Generous, lavish (as in not sparing any help or gifts to others); unmerciful, harsh (as in not sparing any criticism)

neighbors were unsparing in their charity when a local family was rendered homeless by a fire
unsparing in his criticism of the welfare state

Question 35

untempered

Answer 35

Not toned down; not moderated, controlled, or counterbalanced

Question 36

upbraid

Answer 36

Find fault with, criticize or scold severely

Biden and others, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., upbraided the tech giant for essentially profiting off a form of disinformation.