Chapter 4

Question 1

Audacious

Answer 1

Willing to be bold in social situations or take risks

Question 2

Lambast

Answer 2

Criticize severely or angrily

Question 3

Inexorable

Answer 3

Impossible to stop or prevent

Question 4

Aesthete

Answer 4

One who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature

Question 5

Apathetic

Answer 5

Marked by a lack of interest

Question 6

Superfluous

Answer 6

More than is needed desired or required

Question 7

Querulous

Answer 7

Habitually complaining

Question 8

Volubility

Answer 8

The quality of talking or writing easily or continuously

Question 9

Predilection

Answer 9

A strong liking

Question 10

Frivolous

Answer 10

Not serious

Question 11

Vociferous

Answer 11

Conspicuously and offensively loud

Question 12

Glut

Answer 12

An excessive supply

Question 13

Specious

Answer 13

Fallacious

Question 14

Timorous

Answer 14

Meek

Question 15

Subversion

Answer 15

Undermining of power and authority of an established system or institution

Question 16

Affected

Answer 16

Artificial

Question 17

Engendered

Answer 17

Cause or give rise to

Question 18

Occasioned

Answer 18

To cause something

Question 19

Dissemble

Answer 19

To lie/ conceal

Question 20

Feign

Answer 20

Fake

Question 21

Tractable

Answer 21

Manageable

Question 22

Doggedness

Answer 22

Someone who never gives up
Tenacity

Question 23

Probity

Answer 23

Morality

Question 24

Pertinacity

Answer 24

Doggedness
Tenacity

Question 25

Admonished

Answer 25

Rebuked, reprimanded

Question 26

Spurious

Answer 26

Fake
Counterfeit
Plausible but false

Question 27

Connoisseur

Answer 27

Expert

Question 28

Chauvinism

Answer 28

Excessive patriotism

Question 29

Mitigate

Answer 29

Make less severe or harsh

Question 30

Rustic

Answer 30

Characteristic of rural life, awkwardly simple and provincial

Question 31

Incisive

Answer 31

Having or demonstrating ability to recognise or draw fine distinctions

Question 32

Mawkish

Answer 32

Overly sentimental to the point that it is disgusting

Question 33

Gainsay

Answer 33

Deny or contradict, speak against or oppose

Question 34

Chortle

Answer 34

To chuckle, laugh merrily often in a breathy, muffled way