Ch 16

Question 1

Amenable (adj)

Answer 1

Agreeable, responsive to suggestion

Question 2

Coalesce (v)

Answer 2

To come together, to fuse or unite

Question 3

Diffident (adj)

Answer 3

Reserved, shy, unassuming

Lacking in self-confidence

Question 4

Epicure (n)

Answer 4

One devoted to sensual pleasure, particularly in food or drink

Question 5

Forestall (v)

Answer 5

To hinder, exclude or prevent an action

Question 6

Incipient (adj)

Answer 6

Beginning to come into being or to become apparent

Question 7

Monotony (n)

Answer 7

Tedious lack of variety or change

Question 8

Overweening (adj)

Answer 8

Presumptuously arrogant, overbearing, immoderate

Question 9

Pernicious (adj)

Answer 9

Extremely harmful, potentially causing death

Question 10

Renege (v)

Answer 10

To fail to honor a commitment, go back on a promise

Question 11

Sinuous (adj)

Answer 11

Winding, curving, moving lithely, devious

Question 12

Anachronism (n)

Answer 12

Something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context

Question 13

Coda (n)

Answer 13

Concluding section to a musical or literary piece, something that concludes or completes

Question 14

Digress (v)

Answer 14

To stray from the point

To go off on a tangent

Question 15

Epithet (n)

Answer 15

Disparaging word or phrase

Question 16

Forswear (v)

Answer 16

To renounce, disallow, repudiate

Question 17

Indefatigable (adj)

Answer 17

Not easily exhaustible, tireless, dogged

Question 18

Morose (adj)

Answer 18

Sad, melancholy

Question 19

Perspicacious (adj)

Answer 19

Acutely perceptive, having keen discernment

Question 20

Slake (v)

Answer 20

To satisfy, lessen the intensity of