Week 32

Question 1

profound

The automation’s effect upon us becomes concomitantly more profound.

Answer 1

deep; intense

Question 2

alleviate

They alleviate the burden of storing.

Answer 2

make easier; lighten

Question 3

prodigious

An accumulation of information is becoming more prodigious in this era of specialization.

Answer 3

extraordinary; enormous

Question 4

celerity

Machines whose celerity can scan thousands of words in nanoseconds help expedite the selection of pertinent information for those schoolchildren.

Answer 4

speed; rapidity

Question 5

expedite

Machines whose celerity can scan thousands of words in nanoseconds help expedite the selection of pertinent information for those schoolchildren.

Answer 5

carry out promptly

Question 6

[IDM] ivory tower

Many artists have been said to be living in an ivory tower.

Answer 6

isolated from life; not in touch with life’s problems

Question 7

bizarre

What a bizarre concept this must seem for today’s youth.

Answer 7

fantastic; odd

Question 8

usurp

The cell phone has usurped the wire-connected stationary model.

Answer 8

seize; annex; grab

Question 9

paltry

Customers eschew offering a paltry number of minutes of talking time.

Answer 9

petty; worthless

Question 10

trivial

The most trivial defects may have a deleterious effect upon the efficacy of that new process.

Answer 10

of little importance; insignificant

Question 11

condone

Do you expect me to condone that reprehensible act with such celerity?

Answer 11

excuse; pardon

Question 12

[IDM] to feather one’s nest

He played up to his senile aunt in the hope of feathering his nest when she made out her will.

Answer 12

to enrich oneself on the sly; at every opportunity