Vocabulary

Question 1

Receptive to suggestions or criticism?

Answer 1

Amenable

Question 2

Responsible for something legally

Answer 2

Amenable

Question 3

Strikingly unconventional or peculiar as to taste, style, or appearance

Answer 3

Bizarre

Question 4

A defensive wall or fortification; any safeguard or defense

Answer 4

Bulwark

Question 5

To fortify with a bulwark; to protect

Answer 5

Bulwark

Question 6

A small group of highly placed people united for a secret and often sinister purpose; the plots of such a group

Answer 6

Cabal

Question 7

A picture or description in which the characteristic features of the original are exaggerated or distorted so as to produce an absurd effect?

Answer 7

Caricature

Question 8

A complete and often ridiculous failure?

Answer 8

Fiasco

Question 9

Added to for decoration or interest?

Answer 9

Garnished

Question 10

Spoken casually without thought?

Answer 10

Glib

Question 11

Smoothly spoken, often characterized by insincerity?

Answer 11

Glib

Question 12

Cynical from overexposure to something?

Answer 12

Jaded

Question 13

Worn out from use?

Answer 13

Jaded

Question 14

Bravery?

Answer 14

Prowess

Question 15

Superior skill?

Answer 15

Prowess

Question 16

Basic principles first learned about a subject?

Answer 16

Rudiments

Question 17

Characterized by erratic behavior or unpredictability; odd, freakish

Answer 17

Whimsical

Question 18

A step-by-step explanation of something by comparing it with something else?

Answer 18

Analogy

Question 19

Daring; boldness?

Answer 19

Audacity

Question 20

Impudence?

Answer 20

Audacity

Question 21

Good manners; politeness?

Answer 21

Civility

Question 22

Skill in using the hands or body; mental quickness?

Answer 22

Dexterity

Question 23

Double-dealing; deceitfulness?

Answer 23

Duplicity

Question 24

Something that has immediate advantages?

Answer 24

Expediency

Question 25

A false or misleading idea; a deceptive or unsound argument?

Answer 25

Fallacy

Question 26

Excess in eating?

Answer 26

Gluttony

Question 27

Unbecoming or inappropriate frivolity or jocularity; lack of seriousness?

Answer 27

Levity

Question 28

A nobleness of spirit which disdains petty resentment and revenge?

Answer 28

Magnanimity

Question 29

Depth of intellect or emotion?

Answer 29

Profundity

Question 30

A natural inclination or tendency?

Answer 30

Propensity

Question 31

Any opening in a solid figure?

Answer 31

Aperture

Question 32

Great warmth of emotion of desire?

Answer 32

Ardor

Question 33

Skilled trickery; cleverness?

Answer 33

Artifice

Question 34

Openness of mind; impartiality?

Answer 34

Candor

Question 35

Frankness of expression; straightforwardness?

Answer 35

Candor

Question 36

The end or resolution of something?

Answer 36

Culmination

Question 37

The climax?

Answer 37

Culmination

Question 38

Courtesy; respect?

Answer 38

Deference

Question 39

Complying to the opinions or desires of others?

Answer 39

Deference

Question 40

Presumptuous, brash behavior, often insulting?

Answer 40

Effrontery

Question 41

The face or front of anything; especially, a deceptive false front?

Answer 41

Façade

Question 42

The holding of an office and the administering of its duties; also, the term of an office?

Answer 42

Incumbency

Question 43

An assumption from which a conclusion is gathered?

Answer 43

Premise

Question 44

Government funds given to support a business thought to be in the public interest?

Answer 44

Subsidy

Question 45

Financial aid given by one party to another?

Answer 45

Subsidy

Question 46

Decision; an act of conscious choice

Answer 46

Volition