28 jan

Question 1

appurtenant

Answer 1

belonging; pertinent.

Question 2

incubation period

Answer 2

the period between exposure to an infection and the appearance of the first symptoms.

Question 3

jumping the gun

Answer 3

Start doing something too soon, act too hastily

Question 4

ascendance

Answer 4

the state that exists when one person or group has power over

Question 5

elusive

Answer 5

difficult to find, catch, or achieve.

difficult to remember.

Question 6

squalor

Answer 6

the state of being extremely dirty and unpleasant, especially as a result of poverty or neglect.

Question 7

pugilist

Answer 7

a boxer, especially a professional one.

Question 8

indomitable

Answer 8

impossible to subdue or defeat.

assailable;impregnable

Question 9

elegy

Answer 9

sad poem

Question 10

ambivalence

Answer 10

the state of having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone.

Question 11

reeling

Answer 11

lose one’s balance and stagger or lurch violently.

Question 12

cessation

Answer 12

the fact or process of ending or being brought to an end.

Question 13

breakneck

Answer 13

dangerously or extremely fast.

Question 14

experientialism

Answer 14

: a philosophical theory that experience is the source of all knowledge not purely deductive, formal, or tautological — compare empiricism.

Question 15

calibrate

Answer 15

correlate the readings of (an instrument) with those of a standard in order to check the instrument’s accuracy.

Question 16

rife

Answer 16

in an unchecked or widespread manner.

Question 17

itinerancy

Answer 17

noun. the act of traveling from place to place. a going around from place to place in the discharge of duty or the conducting of business. a body of itinerants, as ministers, judges, or sales representatives. the state of being itinerant.

Question 18

argot

Answer 18

the jargon or slang of a particular group or class.

Question 19

allusion

Answer 19

in reference to

Question 20

pathology

Answer 20

Pathology is a branch of medical science that involves the study and diagnosis of disease through the examination of surgically removed organs, tissues (biopsy samples), bodily fluids, and in some cases the whole body (autopsy).

Question 21

maudlin

Answer 21

self-pityingly or tearfully sentimental.

Question 22

beatnik

Answer 22

a usually young and artistic person who rejects the mores of conventional society.

Question 23

disdain

Answer 23

the feeling that someone or something is unworthy of one’s consideration or respect.

Question 24

inchoate

Answer 24

just begun and so not fully formed or developed; rudimentary.

Question 25

harvest the spoils

Answer 25

vb. 1 to cut or harvest (a crop), esp. corn, from (a field or tract of land) 2 tr to gain or get (something) as a reward for or result of some action or enterprise.

Question 26

nihilistic

Answer 26

rejecting all religious and moral principles in the belief that life is meaningless.

Question 27

decadent

Answer 27

characterized by or reflecting a state of moral or cultural decline.
dissolue;louche ;a person who is luxuriously self-indulgent.

Question 28

to have itchy feet

Answer 28

have a strong urge to travel or move from place to place.

Question 29

inquisitive

Answer 29

having or showing an interest in learning things; curious.

Question 30

fringe

Answer 30

not part of the mainstream; unconventional, peripheral, or extreme.

Question 31

disinhibition

Answer 31

In psychology, disinhibition is a lack of restraint manifested in disregard of social conventions

Question 32

backwaters

Answer 32

Backwater is water that’s stagnant and out of the current. It’s a still pool created by a dam or a curve in the river. If a small town is described as backwater, then not much happens or changes there. … Backwater can also describe a place or situation that seems stuck in a rut, unmoved by current events.