Chapter 2

Question 1

Derivative

Answer 1

Unoriginal

Question 2

Trite

Answer 2

(of a remark or idea) lacking originality or freshness

Question 3

Brazen

Answer 3

Bold or shameless

Question 4

Caustic

Answer 4

Bitter
Negative

Question 5

Contempt

Answer 5

The feel that a person or thing is worthless or beneath consideration

Question 6

Derisive

Answer 6

Expressing contempt or ridicule

Question 7

Anachronistic

Answer 7

Of the wrong era

Question 8

Castigated

Answer 8

Reprimanded
Criticized

Question 9

Avaracious

Answer 9

Greedy

Question 10

Alacrity

Answer 10

Eagerness
Brisk and cheerful readiness

Question 11

Contrite

Answer 11

Remorse

Question 12

Restive

Answer 12

Restless

Question 13

Acrimony

Answer 13

Bitterness or ill will

Question 14

Impertinent

Answer 14

Being disrespectful
Improperly forward or bold

Question 15

Prevaricate

Answer 15

To speak in an evasive way

Question 16

Evasive

Answer 16

Tending to avoid commitment or self revelation

Question 17

Upbraid

Answer 17

To reproach, to scold

Question 18

Subsume

Answer 18

To include or absorb into

Question 19

Bucolic

Answer 19

Relating to the countryside
Rustic

Question 20

Adroit

Answer 20

Skillful

Question 21

Underbelly

Answer 21

An area vulnerable to attack
A hidden unpleasant or criminal part of society

Question 22

Roil

Answer 22

Make a liquid turbid or muddy by disturbing the sediment
Make annoyed or irritated

Question 23

Prolixity

Answer 23

Wordiness
Unduly prolonged or drawn out

Question 24

Inscrutability

Answer 24

The fact of being impossible to understand or interpret

Question 25

Prescient

Answer 25

Having or showing knowledge of events before they take place

Question 26

Extant

Answer 26

Still in existence

Question 27

Fallacious

Answer 27

Full of holes Based on mistaken belief Erroneous

Question 28

Retroactive

Answer 28

If a law or decision is retroactive it has effect from a date before it was approved

Question 29

Foreboding

Answer 29

A sense that something bad will happen

Question 30

Foment

Answer 30

Stir up or instigate

Question 31

Hold forth

Answer 31

Talk lengthily, assertively, tediously about

Question 32

Agog

Answer 32

Very curious or eager to hear or see something

Question 33

Canonized

Answer 33

Glorified

Question 34

Venerate

Answer 34

To respect deeply

Question 35

Maintain

Answer 35

To assert

Question 36

Venality

Answer 36

The condition of being susceptible to bribes and corruption

Question 37

Enervate

Answer 37

To sap energy from

Question 38

Profligate

Answer 38

Spending resources recklessly or wastefully

Question 39

Egregious

Answer 39

Standing out in a negative way Shockingly bad

Question 40

Commensurate

Answer 40

To be in proportion or corresponding in degree or amount

Question 41

Intimate

Answer 41

To suggest something subtly

Question 42

Precocity/ precocious

Answer 42

Exceptionally early or premature development (as of mental powers or sexual characteristics) Early development especially in mental aptitude (precocious chess player)

Question 43

Aberration

Answer 43

A deviation from what is normal or expected

Question 44

Recondite

Answer 44

Obscure Little known Difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend

Question 45

Placid

Answer 45

Calm

Question 46

Garrulous

Answer 46

Full of trivial conversation Never shuts up Talkative Long-winded

Question 47

Scrupulous

Answer 47

Detailed Moral

Question 48

Precipitated

Answer 48

Caused

Question 49

Obsolete

Answer 49

Outmoded Out of date

Question 50

Opaque

Answer 50

Perplexing

Question 51

Approbation

Answer 51

Acclaim

Question 52

Incendiary

Answer 52

Provocative

Question 53

Inimical

Answer 53

Detrimental Hostile

Question 54

Polemical

Answer 54

Hostile

Question 55

Profundity

Answer 55

Insight

Question 56

Prudent

Answer 56

Wise

Question 57

Prophetic

Answer 57

Far-seeing

Question 58

Ephemeral

Answer 58

Temporary/ transitory

Question 59

Punctilious

Answer 59

Meticulous

Question 60

Pedant

Answer 60

Perfectionist Marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects

Question 61

Paradigmatic

Answer 61

Standard (Noun form - paradigm)

Question 62

Vacillates

Answer 62

Waves Goes back and forth

Question 63

Corroborated

Answer 63

Verified Confirmed