Advanced Words II

Question 1

Clamber

Answer 1

Climb awkwardly or with difficulty, scramble

Question 2

Cloying

Answer 2

Disgustingly or distastefully sweet

Question 3

Coagulate

Answer 3

Cause a liquid to become solid or semisolid

Question 4

Coda

Answer 4

Final part of a musical composition; an ending, esp. one that sums up what has come before

Question 5

Coffer

Answer 5

Chest for storing valuables; financial resources, a treasury

Question 6

Collude

Answer 6

Conspire; cooperate for illegal or fraudulent purposes

Question 7

Compendium

Answer 7

Concise but complete summary; a list or collection

Question 8

Complaisant

Answer 8

Eager to please; cheerfully complying

Question 9

Confound

Answer 9

Confuse, frustrate; mix up or make worse

Question 10

Connote

Answer 10

Suggest or imply in addition to the precise, literal meaning

Question 11

Contraries

Answer 11

Things that are opposing; either of two opposite things

Question 12

Contrite

Answer 12

Remorseful; feeling sorry for one’s offenses or sins

Question 13

Contumacious

Answer 13

Rebellious; stubbornly disobedient

Question 14

Convoke

Answer 14

Call together, as to a meeting

Question 15

Cosset

Answer 15

Treat as a pet, pamper

Question 16

Coterie

Answer 16

Close or exclusive group, clique

Question 17

Cupidity

Answer 17

Greed, great or excessive desire

Question 18

Curmudgeon

Answer 18

Bad-tempered, difficult person; grouch

Question 19

Declaim

Answer 19

Speak in an impassioned, pompous, or oratorical manner; five a formal speech

Question 20

Declivity

Answer 20

Downward slope

Question 21

Delimit

Answer 21

Fix, mark, or define the boundaries of

Question 22

Demagogue

Answer 22

A leader who lies and gains power by arousing the passions and especially prejudices of the people

Question 23

Demur

Answer 23

Show reluctance or object, esp. for moral reasons

Question 24

Desultory

Answer 24

Lacking consistency or order, disconnected, sporadic; going off topic

Question 25

Diaphanous

Answer 25

very sheer, fine, translucent

Question 26

Dichotomy

Answer 26

Division into two parts or into two contradictory groups

Question 27

Dictum

Answer 27

Formal or authoritative pronouncement; saying or proverb

Question 28

Diffident

Answer 28

Lacking confidence, shy

Question 29

Diffuse

Answer 29

Spread widely, disseminate; dispersed, widely spread out, or wordy and going off-topic

Question 30

Dilate

Answer 30

To become wider or make wider, cause to expand; to speak or write at length, elaborate upon

Question 31

Dilatory

Answer 31

Slow, late; procrastinating or stalling for time

Question 32

Dilettante

Answer 32

Person who takes up an art or activity for amusement only or in a superficial way

Question 33

Dirge

Answer 33

A funeral or mourning song or poem

Question 34

Discomfiting

Answer 34

Disconcerting, confusing, frustrating

Question 35

Discordant

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Harsh or inharmonious in sound; disagreeing, incongruous

Question 36

Discrete

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Separate, distinct, detached, existing as individual parts

Question 37

Disparage

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Belittle, put down

Question 38

Disparate

Answer 38

Distinct, different

Question 39

Dissemble

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Mislead, conceal the truth, put on a false appearance of

Question 40

Dissolution

Answer 40

Dissolving, the state of having been dissolved; breaking bonds or breaking up of a group of people; death, disintegration; sinking into extreme hedonism, vice, and degradation

Question 41

Distaff

Answer 41

Female, exp. relation to the maternal side of the family; women or women's work; a staff that holds wool or flax for spinning

Question 42

Distend

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Swell, expand, stretch, bloat

Question 43

Dither

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Act indecisively; a state of fear or trembling excitement

Question 44

Diurnal

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Occurring every day; happening in the daytime (rather than at night)

Question 45

Doctrinaire

Answer 45

Person who applies doctrine in an impractical or rigid an close-minded way; merely theoretical, impractical, or fanatical about other people accepting one's ideas

Question 46

Doff

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Table off, put aside; remove one's hat as a gesture

Question 47

Dovetail

Answer 47

Join or fit together

Question 48

Droll

Answer 48

Funny in an odd way

Question 49

Dupe

Answer 49

Person who is easily fooled or used; to fool or exploit

Question 50

Duplicity

Answer 50

Deceit, double-dealing, acting in two different ways for the purpose of deception