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Question 1

impious

Answer 1

irreverent

Question 2

indentation

Answer 2

notch; deep recess

Question 3

insatiable

Answer 3

not easily satisfied; unquenchable; greedy

Question 4

itinerant

Answer 4

wandering; traveling

Question 5

lieu

Answer 5

instead of; in place of

Question 6

marsupial

Answer 6

one of a family of mammals that nurse their offspring in a pouch

Question 7

monotonous

Answer 7

arousing no interest or curiosity

Question 8

nomenclature

Answer 8

terminology; system of names

Question 9

oracular

Answer 9

prophetic; uttered as if with divine authority; mysterious or ambiguous

Question 10

partisan

Answer 10

one-sided; prejudiced; committed to a party

Question 11

philanthropist

Answer 11

lover of mankind; doer of good

Question 12

portend

Answer 12

foretell; presage

Question 13

profusion

Answer 13

overabundance; lavish expenditure; excess

Question 14

purvey

Answer 14

to provide, furnish, supply items as a business or service

Question 15

recant

Answer 15

to take back, retract, repudiate, disavow

Question 16

repository

Answer 16

storehouse

Question 17

rotundity

Answer 17

roundness; sonorousness of speech

Question 18

sentient

Answer 18

able to perceive by the sense; conscious; cognizant

Question 19

spendthrift

Answer 19

someone who wastes money

Question 20

submissive

Answer 20

yielding; timid