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Question 1

xenophobia

Answer 1

fear or hatred of foreigners

Question 2

viable

Answer 2

practical or workable; capable of maintaining life

Question 3

unfathomable

Answer 3

incomprehensible; impenetrable

Question 4

tract

Answer 4

region of land (often imprecisely describes); pamphlet

Question 5

taut

Answer 5

tight; ready

Question 6

subside

Answer 6

settle down; descend; grow quiet

Question 7

splinter

Answer 7

sharp piece broken or split off from something; silver; fragment; to break into splinters

Question 8

serendipity

Answer 8

gift for finding valuable or desirable things by accident; accidental good fortune or luck

Question 9

rudimentary

Answer 9

not developed; elementary; crude

Question 10

reprieve

Answer 10

temporary stay

Question 11

recede

Answer 11

to move back or away from a point

Question 12

putative

Answer 12

commonly accepted

Question 13

prognosticate

Answer 13

to foretell or predict

Question 14

posthumous

Answer 14

after death (as of child born after father’s death or book published after author’s death)

Question 15

phlegmatic

Answer 15

calm; not easily disturbed

Question 16

pathological

Answer 16

related to the study of disease; diseased or markedly abnormal

Question 17

ordination

Answer 17

ceremony making someone a minister

Question 18

nonchalant

Answer 18

behaving in a calm manner, showing that you are not worried or frightened; not showing excitement or anxiety; cooly confident, unworried; casually indifferent

Question 19

moratorium

Answer 19

legal delay of payment

Question 20

materialism

Answer 20

preoccupation with physical comforts and things

Question 21

lionize

Answer 21

treat as a celebrity

Question 22

jaundice

Answer 22

prejudiced view; yellow discoloration of the skin and eyes

Question 23

insensible

Answer 23

unconscious; unresponsive

Question 24

indict

Answer 24

charge

Question 25

implicate

Answer 25

incriminate; show to be involved

Question 26

hiatus

Answer 26

gap; interruption in duration or continuity; pause

Question 27

gloss over

Answer 27

explain away

Question 28

forgo

Answer 28

give up; do without

Question 29

faux

Answer 29

false; phony; fake

Question 30

exceptionable

Answer 30

objectionable

Question 31

ennui

Answer 31

boredom

Question 32

dwarf

Answer 32

cause to seem small

Question 33

disenfranchise

Answer 33

deprive of a civil right

Question 34

deploy

Answer 34

spread out [troops] in an extended though shallow battle lin

Question 35

cursory

Answer 35

casual; hastily done

Question 36

consternation

Answer 36

a feeling of anxiety, shock or confusion; a state of dismay

Question 37

compact

Answer 37

tightly packed; firm; brief

Question 38

centripetal

Answer 38

tending toward the center

Question 39

bootleg

Answer 39

to smuggle; to make, sell, or transport for sale illegally

Question 40

badger

Answer 40

pester; annoy

Question 41

apposite

Answer 41

appropriate; fitting

Question 42

ajar

Answer 42

partially open

Question 43

wrest

Answer 43

pull away; take by violence

Question 44

vexatious

Answer 44

annoying; troublesome

Question 45

unfaltering

Answer 45

firm; steady

Question 46

tout

Answer 46

publicize; praise excessively

Question 47

tarry

Answer 47

delay; dawdle

Question 48

subservient

Answer 48

behaving like a slave; servile; obsequious

Question 49

splice

Answer 49

fasten together; unite

Question 50

sequester

Answer 50

isolate; retire from public life; segregate, seclude