Barron's 6

Question 1

uncanny

Answer 1

myterious, strange

Question 2

expatriate

Answer 2

to send into exile

Question 3

miscreant

Answer 3

villain; criminal

Question 4

exorcise

Answer 4

to expel evil spirits; free from bad influences

Question 5

forswear

Answer 5

renounce; repudiate

Question 6

distrait

Answer 6

inattentive; preoccupied

Question 7

covert

Answer 7

hidden; secret

Question 8

dissident

Answer 8

person who disagrees about beliefs

Question 9

inconsequencial

Answer 9

insgnificant; unimportant

Question 10

rail

Answer 10

to scold with bitter or abusive language

Question 11

disinterested

Answer 11

unpredujiced; objective

Question 12

vogue

Answer 12

prevailing fashion or practice

Question 13

microcosm

Answer 13

a small system having analogies to a larger system

Question 14

spectrum

Answer 14

band of color, broad range of related ideas or objects

Question 15

seismic

Answer 15

relating to earthquakes

Question 16

aspersion

Answer 16

slander; false rumor

Question 17

diverge

Answer 17

to vary; go in different directions from the same point

Question 18

libido

Answer 18

sexual desire

Question 19

ambrosia

Answer 19

something delicious; the food of the gods

Question 20

accrue

Answer 20

to accumulate; grow by additions

Question 21

belie

Answer 21

to contradict; misrepresent; give a false impression

Question 22

cataclysm

Answer 22

a violent upheaval that causes great destruction and change

Question 23

aggregate

Answer 23

amounting to a whole; total

Question 24

cantankerous

Answer 24

irritable; ill-humored

Question 25

preamble

Answer 25

preliminary statement

Question 26

satyr

Answer 26

a creature that is half-man, half beast, with the horns and legs of a goat

Question 27

ineluctable

Answer 27

not to be avoided or escaped; inevitable

Question 28

platitude

Answer 28

stale; overused expression

Question 29

impermeable

Answer 29

impossible to permeate

Question 30

arrest

Answer 30

to stop; to seize