Book2

Question 1

goad

Answer 1

a prod for driving cattle

Question 2

noncommittal

Answer 2

not committing to any position

Question 3

coherent

Answer 3

logically connected

Question 4

fulminate

Answer 4

to talk or argue violently

Question 5

proboscis

Answer 5

the long snout of an animal

Question 6

inexplicable

Answer 6

impossible to explain

Question 7

surmise

Answer 7

to guess or suppose

Question 8

climatic

Answer 8

of the highest

Question 9

fidelity

Answer 9

loyalty faithfulness

Question 10

anecdotes

Answer 10

a brief entertaining story

Question 11

prodigies

Answer 11

a person with extraordinary talents

Question 12

epilogue

Answer 12

a small story after the main story

Question 13

forte

Answer 13

something that someone does very well

Question 14

stigma

Answer 14

a mark of shame

Question 15

hypochondriac

Answer 15

a person suffering from abnormal anxiety about his or her health

Question 16

extemporaneous

Answer 16

done with little or no preparation

Question 17

quixotic

Answer 17

impractical idealistic marked by a romantic notion of Nobel

Question 18

assertion

Answer 18

act of declaring something

Question 19

staunch

Answer 19

to stop the flow

Question 20

anagram

Answer 20

a word or phrase formed from another word or phrase by changing the order of letters