Day 3

Question 1

obnoxious

Answer 1

extremely unpleasant.

Question 2

horrified

Answer 2

extremely shocked

Question 3

rubberneck

Answer 3

• turn one’s head to stare at something in a foolish manner.
• a person who rubbernecks.

Question 4

rancid

Answer 4

• highly unpleasant

syn: repugnant.

• smelling or tasting unpleasant as a result of being old and stale.

Syn: rank, putrid

Question 5

Panglossian

Answer 5

• overly optimistic

Question 6

prattle

Answer 6

• talk at length in a foolish or inconsequential way

“she began to prattle on about her visit to the dentist”
Similar: babble, blather, gabble, jabber

• foolish or inconsequential talk

Question 7

reprobate

Answer 7

• (adj) unprincipled.
  “reprobate behaviour”
• (noun) an unprincipled person.

Syn: rogue, rascal, scoundrel, rake

Question 8

bungle

Answer 8

• (verb) carry out (a task) clumsily or incompetently.
  “he bungled his first attempt to manage a group of professional players”
  Syn: botch, muff, fluff
• (noun) a task carried out in a clumsy or incompetent way.

Question 9

ennui

Answer 9

• a feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement

Question 10

nihilistic

Answer 10

rejecting all religious and moral principles in the belief that life is meaningless.
“an embittered, nihilistic teenager”

Question 11

rogue

Answer 11

• a dishonest or unprincipled person
• a person or thing that behaves in an aberrant or unpredictable way, typically with damaging or dangerous effects.

Question 12

salutary

Answer 12

producing good effects; beneficial

Question 13

balk

Answer 13

• hesitate or be unwilling to accept an idea or undertaking
  syn: demur from

Question 14

vacillate

Answer 14

waver between different opinions or actions; be indecisive

Question 15

milieu

Answer 15

thephysicalorsocialsettinginwhichpeopleliveor inwhichsomethinghappens or develops

Question 16

zany

Answer 16

• very strange and silly

syn: absurd, asinine, ludicrous

Question 17

fawning

Answer 17

displaying exaggerated flattery or affection

syn: obsequious

Question 18

solipsistic

Answer 18

very self-centred or selfish
eg. their solipsistic belief that only their cares are the ones of any importance

Question 19

ineffable

Answer 19

too great, beautiful or powerful to be described or expressed

syn: indescribable, unspeakable

Question 20

plumb

Answer 20

• (verb) to examine minutely or critically
• (adv) in a direct manner; exactly
  “trading opportunities plumb in the centre of central Europe
• (adv) without interval of time; immediately

Question 21

interiority

Answer 21

• inner life, quality, character, or substance

Question 22

byzantine

Answer 22

• complicated and difficult to understand
  syn: involved
• of a devious or stealthy procedure
  syn: surreptitious, underhand

Question 23

irascible

Answer 23

easily provoked to anger
syn: irritable, touchy, dyspeptic

Question 24

oblique

Answer 24

• expressed or done in an indirect way

Question 25

demonstrative

Answer 25

- freely and openly showing emotion or feelings - serving as conclusive evidence of something. "demonstrative evidence"

Question 26

eviscerate

Answer 26

- deprive (something) of its essential content or force - To destroy or make ineffectual or meaningless.

Question 27

visceral

Answer 27

relating to deep inward feelings rather than to the intellect.

Question 28

pat

Answer 28

- said or done without any real thought or effort to be truthful or original syn: superficial, cursory, glib - simple and somewhat unconvincing; suspiciously appropriate. Syn: contrived - exactly suited to the purpose or occasion syn: apt or opportune

Question 29

emend

Answer 29

to correct

Question 30

mordant

Answer 30

harshly critical, especially in a funny way

Question 31

smolder

Answer 31

- to feel a strong emotion but keep hidden "Anna smouldered with indignation" Syn: seethe, simmer - exist in a suppressed or concealed state. "the controversy smouldered on for several years"

Question 32

highfalutin

Answer 32

pompous or pretentious syn: affected

Question 33

ebb

Answer 33

to gradually decrease or worsen

Question 34

ingenious

Answer 34

clever, original, and inventive

Question 35

feverish

Answer 35

marked by frenetic excitement or energy.

Question 36

staid

Answer 36

- boring, dull, unadventurous - sedate; not impulsive

Question 37

foil

Answer 37

- (verb) prevent (something considered wrong or undesirable) from succeeding - (noun) a person or thing that contrasts another