A+ Academy- Week 6

Question 0

Pernicious

Answer 0

Harmful, causing injury

Question 1

Elicit

Answer 1

To draw forth/ evoke a response, answer, or facts

Question 2

Tolerate

Answer 2

To put up with, to bear

Question 3

Construe

Answer 3

To make a deduction, to infer, interpret

Question 4

Impunity

Answer 4

Freedom or exemption from punishment

Question 5

Affluent

Answer 5

Rich

Question 6

Feasible

Answer 6

Possible to do (easily)

Question 7

Discern

Answer 7

Perceive, recognize

Question 8

Sally (V)

Answer 8

Suddenly rush forth

Question 9

Consternation

Answer 9

Dismay

Question 10

Precocious

Answer 10

Reaching maturity early

Question 11

Perfunctory

Answer 11

Done without care or effort, careless, quick, superficial

Question 12

Chagrin

Answer 12

Feeling of disappointment, humiliation (to our chagrin…)

Question 13

Perverse

Answer 13

Contrary, persisting in error/ uncooperative, unreasonable, stubborn, difficult

Question 14

Deride

Answer 14

To ridicule, scoff at, express contempt for

Question 15

Bellicosity

Answer 15

An inclination to fight or quarrel, warlike

Question 16

Naïveté

Answer 16

Lack of experience, wisdom, or judgement

Question 17

Masticated

Answer 17

Chew

Question 18

Expounded

Answer 18

Present and explain (a theory or idea) systematically and in detail

Question 19

Infiltrating

Answer 19

Enter or gain access

Question 20

Truncating

Answer 20

Shorten something by cutting off

Question 21

Gestation

Answer 21

Pregnancy/ development of something over time

Question 22

Plebeian

Answer 22

Commoner

Question 23

Ossified

Answer 23

Turn into bone/ cease developing, be stagnant or rigid

Question 24

Ruinous

Answer 24

Disasterous or destructive

Question 25

Libertine

Answer 25

A free thinker/ person (especially a man) who behaved without morals or responsibility

Question 26

Mordant

Answer 26

Expressing harsh criticism in a way that is funny

Question 27

Charter

Answer 27

A document outlining the conditions under which a coloration, city, colony is organized and it's right and privileges are defined

Question 28

Inflict

Answer 28

Cause something unpleasant or painful to be suffered by someone (intentionally)

Question 29

Rupture

Answer 29

Break or bust suddenly

Question 30

Circumlocution

Answer 30

Use I many words where fewer would do (to be vague or evasive)

Question 31

Loquacious

Answer 31

Talkative

Question 32

Placate

Answer 32

Make someone less angry or hostile

Question 33

Nebulous

Answer 33

Unclear, vague idea or concept

Question 34

Mitigate

Answer 34

Make less severe, serious, or painful

Question 35

Spurious

Answer 35

Not genuine, authentic

Question 36

Preponderance

Answer 36

Quality or fact of being greater in number, quality, or importance

Question 37

Turbid

Answer 37

Cloudiness or haziness/ confused or obscure in meaning or effect

Question 38

Precipitous

Answer 38

Dangerously high or steep/ sudden, dramatic/ done without careful consideration

Question 39

Akimbo

Answer 39

With hands in hips and elbows turned outwards

Question 40

Deplore

Answer 40

Feel or express string disapproval

Question 41

Defame

Answer 41

Damage the good reputation, slander

Question 42

Parsimonious

Answer 42

Unwilling to spend money or use resources

Question 43

Oblate

Answer 43

A person dedicated to a religious life

Question 44

Lilliputian

Answer 44

Trivial or very small

Question 45

Imbibed

Answer 45

Drink alcohol/ absorb or assimilate ideas or knowledge

Question 46

Palavered

Answer 46

Talk unnecessarily at length

Question 47

Append

Answer 47

Add something as an attachment

Question 48

Homonym

Answer 48

Same spelling, different meaning

Question 49

Heteronym

Answer 49

Words with identical spellings but different meanings and pronunciation

Question 50

Antonym

Answer 50

Words opposite in meaning

Question 51

Imperiled

Answer 51

Put at risk of being harmed or destroyed

Question 52

Impugned

Answer 52

Dispute the truth or honesty, call into question

Question 53

Regaled

Answer 53

Entertain or amuse with talk/ lavishly supply with food

Question 54

Prorate

Answer 54

Allocate, distribute

Question 55

Proscribe

Answer 55

Forbid (by law)

Question 56

Promulgate

Answer 56

Promote or make widely known

Question 57

Deluge

Answer 57

Severe flood

Question 58

Sardonic

Answer 58

Mocking or cynical

Question 59

Rancorous

Answer 59

Bitterness or resentment

Question 60

Tepid

Answer 60

Showing little enthusiasm

Question 61

Emphatic

Answer 61

Said or done in a forceful way, wholehearted

Question 62

Ascertaining

Answer 62

Find out for certain

Question 63

Mirth

Answer 63

Amusement, especially as expressed in laughter

Question 64

Treacle

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Annoying because too sentimental/ British for molasses

Question 65

Prodigal

Answer 65

Spending money or resources freely and recklessly

Question 66

Staid

Answer 66

Respectable, conventional, stiff, proper

Question 67

Dialectical

Answer 67

Relating to the logical discussion of ideas and opinions

Question 68

Diminutive

Answer 68

Extremely of unusually small

Question 69

Heft

Answer 69

Lift or carry (something heavy)

Question 70

Lambasting

Answer 70

Criticize harshly

Question 71

Disparage

Answer 71

To discredit, belittle, regard or represent as being little worth, trivialize

Question 72

Laudable

Answer 72

Praiseworthy

Question 73

Fiasco

Answer 73

Complete failure

Question 74

Masticate

Answer 74

To chew up

Question 75

Eschew

Answer 75

Avoid