Group 6

Question 1

Admonish

Answer 1

Warn or reprimand someone firmly/ to scold mildly/ to remind of duty

Question 2

Aesthetic

Answer 2

concerned with beauty

Question 3

Affectation

Answer 3

Pretentious behaviour in order to please someone

Question 4

Alleviate

Answer 4

Make suffering less severe; placate, pacify, attenuate, assuage

Question 5

Analogous

Answer 5

Comparable in certain respects

Question 6

Bolster

Answer 6

Support or strength

Question 7

Chauvinistic

Answer 7

Displaying aggressive patriotism, displaying excessive support for their own cause, group or sex

Question 8

Connoisseur

Answer 8

An expert judge in matters of taste

Question 9

Dissemble

Answer 9

Conceal or disguise one’s true feelings or beliefs

Question 10

Dogged

Answer 10

Showing tenacity and grim persistence

Question 11

Dupe

Answer 11

trick, a victim of deception

Question 12

Empirical

Answer 12

based on observation rather than theory

Question 13

Engender

Answer 13

cause or give rise to(a feeling, situation or behaviour)

Her latest book has engendered a lot of controversy

Question 14

Entitled

Answer 14

Give someone a legal right to

Question 15

Pertinacious

Answer 15

Holding firmly to an opinion or a cause of action

Question 16

Presumptuous

Answer 16

Failing to observe limits of what is appropriate/brazen

Question 17

Probity

Answer 17

Having strong moral principles, honesty and decency

Question 18

Proliferate

Answer 18

increase rapidly in number, multiply

Question 19

Specious

Answer 19

Superficially plausible but actually wrong

Question 20

Spurious

Answer 20

Something that seems to be genuine, but is false

Question 21

Subjective

Answer 21

Influenced by personal feelings, tasted and opinions

Question 22

Subvert

Answer 22

Undermine the power and authority of the system

Question 23

Timorous

Answer 23

Lack of confidence, easily frightened

Question 24

Tortuous

Answer 24

Full of twists and turns excessively complex

Question 25

Tractable

Answer 25

Easy to control or influence, easy to deal with

Question 26

Transient

Answer 26

Ephemeral, lasting for a very short time

Question 27

Ubiquitous

Answer 27

Present, appearing or found everywhere, omnipresent

Question 28

Underscore

Answer 28

Emphasize

Question 29

Venal

Answer 29

Corrupt

Question 30

Venerate

Answer 30

Regard with great respect, reverence