Deck 2

Question 1

Conciliation

Answer 1

The action of stopping someone from being angry; placation

Question 2

Abnegation

Answer 2

Denial

Question 3

Obtrude

Answer 3

1: to thrust out : EXTRUDE
2: to force or impose (oneself, one’s ideas, etc.) without warrant or request

Question 4

Aegis

Answer 4

the protection, backing, or support of a particular person or organization

Question 5

Steatopygous

Answer 5

having fat or prominent buttocks

Question 6

Lascivious

Answer 6

(of a person, manner, or gesture) feeling or revealing an overt and often offensive sexual desire

Question 7

Propitious

Answer 7

giving or indicating a good chance of success; favorable

Question 8

Exogamy

Answer 8

the custom of marrying outside a community, clan, or tribe

Question 9

Adroit

Answer 9

clever or skillful in using the hands or mind

Question 10

Maladroit

Answer 10

ineffective or bungling; clumsy

Question 11

Effigy

Answer 11

a sculpture or model of a person

Question 12

Agnation

Answer 12

a kinship system in which relationship is traced exclusively through the male line

Question 13

Raillery

Answer 13

good-humored teasing

Question 14

Dowry

Answer 14

property or money brought by a bride to her husband on their marriage

Question 15

Gadfly

Answer 15

an annoying person, especially one who provokes others into action by criticism

Question 16

Rote

Answer 16

mechanical or habitual repetition of something to be learned

Question 17

Dour

Answer 17

relentlessly severe, stern, or gloomy in manner or appearance

Question 18

Aesthete

Answer 18

a person who has or affects to have a special appreciation of art and beauty

Question 19

Voyeuristic

Answer 19

relating to or denoting sexual pleasure gained from watching others when they are naked or engaged in sexual activity

Question 20

Quotidian

Answer 20

of or occurring every day; daily

Question 21

Rider

Answer 21

a condition or proviso added to something already said or decreed

Question 22

Ingratiate

Answer 22

bring oneself into favor with someone by flattering or trying to please them

Question 23

Acerbic

Answer 23

(especially of a comment or style of speaking) sharp and forthright

Question 24

Prosaic

Answer 24

having the style or diction of prose; lacking poetic beauty

Question 25

Unction

Answer 25

the action of anointing someone with oil or ointment as a religious rite or as a symbol of investiture as a monarch

Question 26

Excrescence

Answer 26

a distinct outgrowth on a human or animal body or on a plant, especially one that is the result of disease or abnormality

Question 27

Perhorresce

Answer 27

To shudder at

Question 28

Querulous

Answer 28

Petulant

Question 29

Intransigent

Answer 29

unwilling or refusing to change one’s views or to agree on something