Advanced Group 1.1

Question 1

Abjure

Answer 1

to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid

Question 2

Abrogate

Answer 2

to abolish or annul by authority; to put down

Question 3

Abscission

Answer 3

the act of cutting off or removing

Question 4

Acarpous

Answer 4

effete; to longer fertile; worn out

Question 5

Accertion

Answer 5

growth; enlargement by successive addition; building up

Question 6

Admonish

Answer 6

to reprove; to express warning or disapproval

Question 7

Adroit

Answer 7

adept; dexterous

Question 8

Adumbrate

Answer 8

to foreshadow or intimate; to suggest sketchily; to obscure

Question 9

Anathema

Answer 9

a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing

Question 10

Anondyne

Answer 10

soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts

Question 11

Antipathy

Answer 11

aversion; dislike

Question 12

Antithetical

Answer 12

diametrically opposed, as in antithesis

Question 13

Apocryphal

Answer 13

of dubious authenticity or origin; spurious

Question 14

Apogee

Answer 14

farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith (antonym: perigee)

Question 15

Apostate

Answer 15

one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions

Question 16

Apotheosis

Answer 16

deification; glorification to godliness

Question 17

Apposite

Answer 17

appropriate; pertinent; relevant; apropos

Question 18

Apprise

Answer 18

to give notice to; to inform

Question 19

Arabesque

Answer 19

a complex, ornate design; also a dance position

Question 20

Arcane

Answer 20

mysterious; abstruse; esoteric; knowable only to initiates