List 22

Question 1

affable

Answer 1

friendly, amiable

Question 2

ameliorate

Answer 2

to improve

Question 3

apathetic

Answer 3

lacking concern, emotion

Question 4

assail

Answer 4

to attack

Question 5

benevolent

Answer 5

marked ny goodness or doing good

Question 6

calibrate

Answer 6

to set, standardize

Question 7

circumlocution

Answer 7

indirect and wordy language

Question 8

commodious

Answer 8

roomy

Question 9

conflagration

Answer 9

great fire

Question 10

contravene

Answer 10

to contradict, oppose, violate

Question 11

criteria

Answer 11

standards by which something is judged

Question 12

defecit

Answer 12

an amount (such as an amount of money) that is less than the amount that is needed

Question 13

deride

Answer 13

to laugh at mockingly, scorn

Question 14

discern

Answer 14

to perceive, detect

Question 15

dissipate

Answer 15

to disappear, cause to disappear or waste

Question 16

ecstatic

Answer 16

intensely and overpoweringly happy

Question 17

emend

Answer 17

to correct or revise a written text

Question 18

epitome

Answer 18

a perfect example, embodiment

Question 19

exigent

Answer 19

urgent, critical

Question 20

fauna

Answer 20

all the animals that live in a particular area, time period, or environment

Question 21

forestall

Answer 21

to prevent, thwart, delay

Question 22

grandiloquence

Answer 22

lofty, pompous language

Question 23

husbandry

Answer 23

the control or judicious use of resources

Question 24

implicit

Answer 24

understood but not outwardly obvious, implied

Question 25

indefatigable

Answer 25

incapable of defeat, failure, decay

Question 26

injunction

Answer 26

an order of official warning

Question 27

intrepid

Answer 27

brave in the face of danger

Question 28

keen

Answer 28

acute, finely tuned and able to sense minor differences, distinctions, or details, sharp, intense

Question 29

loquacious

Answer 29

garrulous, tending to talk a great deal

Question 30

metamorphosis

Answer 30

the change of form, shape, substance

Question 31

negligent

Answer 31

habitually careless, neglectful

Question 32

obstreperous

Answer 32

noisy, unruly

Question 33

palpable

Answer 33

flagrant, so intense as to be almost able to be felt physically, obvious

Question 34

penurious

Answer 34

miserly, stingy

Question 35

plethora

Answer 35

an abundance, excess

Question 36

presumption

Answer 36

assumption, a belief based on the fact that something is considered to be extremely reasonable or likely

Question 37

provincial

Answer 37

unfashionable, unsophisticated and unwilling to accept new ideas or ways of thinking or simple and plain

Question 38

rancor

Answer 38

deep, bitter resentment

Question 39

repeal

Answer 39

revoke, to officially end the validity of something such as a law

Question 40

retract

Answer 40

to withdraw

Question 41

scintillating

Answer 41

sparkling

Question 42

sophomoric

Answer 42

immature, uninformed

Question 43

succumb

Answer 43

to stop trying to resist something, die

Question 44

tenuous

Answer 44

having little substance or strength

Question 45

ubiquitous

Answer 45

existing everywhere, widespread

Question 46

veneer

Answer 46

a superficial or deceptively attractive appearance, façade

Question 47

waft

Answer 47

to move lightly through the air

Question 48

accede

Answer 48

to agree