Deck 36

Question 1

deviate

Answer 1

v. turn away from (a principle, norm); depart; diverge

Question 2

deflect

Answer 2

v. turn aside

Question 3

decomposition

Answer 3

n. decay

Question 4

coup

Answer 4

n. highly successful action or sudden attack

Question 5

crescendo

Answer 5

n. increase in the volume or intensity, as in a musical passage; climax

Question 6

connubial

Answer 6

adj. pertaining to marriage or the matrimonial state

Question 7

contaminate

Answer 7

v. pollute

Question 8

commiserate

Answer 8

v. feel or express pity or sympathy for

Question 9

checkered

Answer 9

adj. marked by changes in fortune

Question 10

cantankerous

Answer 10

adj. ill humored; irritable

Question 11

castigate

Answer 11

v. criticize severely; punish

Question 12

bohemian

Answer 12

adj. unconventional (in an artistic way)

Question 13

brandish

Answer 13

v. wave around; flourish

Question 14

bastion

Answer 14

n. fortress; defense

Question 15

bellicose

Answer 15

adj. warlike

Question 16

atavism

Answer 16

n. reversion to an earlier type; throwback

Question 17

apprehend

Answer 17

v. arrest (a criminal); dread; perceive

Question 18

anguish

Answer 18

n. acute pain; extreme suffering

Question 19

wax

Answer 19

v. increase; grow

Question 20

wither

Answer 20

v. shrivel; decay

Question 21

unfathomable

Answer 21

adj. incomprehensible; impenetrable

Question 22

unerringly

Answer 22

adj. infallibly

Question 23

thespian

Answer 23

adj. pertaining to drama

Question 24

suppress

Answer 24

v. stifle; overwhelm; subdue; inhibit

Question 25

stem

Answer 25

v. check the flow

Question 26

stricture

Answer 26

n. restriction; adverse criticism

Question 27

slough

Answer 27

v. cast off

Question 28

soliloquy

Answer 28

n. talking to oneself

Question 29

scurvy

Answer 29

adj. despicable; contemptible

Question 30

seismic

Answer 30

adj. pertaining to earthquakes

Question 31

rummage

Answer 31

v. ransack; thoroughly search

Question 32

repertoire

Answer 32

n. list of works of music, drama, etc., a performer is prepared to present

Question 33

repulsion

Answer 33

n. distaste; act of driving back

Question 34

recrimination

Answer 34

n. countercharges

Question 35

rebuff

Answer 35

v. snub; beat back(to reject)

Question 36

recourse

Answer 36

n. resorting to help when in trouble

Question 37

punitive

Answer 37

adj. punishing

Question 38

pungent

Answer 38

adj. stinging; sharp in taste or smell; caustic

Question 39

quarantine

Answer 39

n. isolation of person or ship to prevent spread of infection

Question 40

prologue

Answer 40

n. introduction (to a poem or play)

Question 41

perverse

Answer 41

adj. stubbornly wrongheaded; wicked and perverted

Question 42

pied

Answer 42

adj. variegated; multicolored

Question 43

oscillate

Answer 43

v. vibrate pendulum-like; waver

Question 44

orthodox

Answer 44

adj. traditional; conservative in belief

Question 45

noxious

Answer 45

adj. harmful

Question 46

momentum

Answer 46

n. quantity of motion of a moving body

Question 47

mortify

Answer 47

v. humiliate; punish the flesh

Question 48

mawkish

Answer 48

adj. mushy and gushy; icky-sticky sentimental; maudlin

Question 49

mentor

Answer 49

n. teacher

Question 50

lope

Answer 50

v. gallop slowly

Question 51

kernel

Answer 51

n. central or vital part; whole seed (as of corn)

Question 52

justification

Answer 52

n. good or just reason; defense; excuse

Question 53

invective

Answer 53

n. abusive expression

Question 54

inequity

Answer 54

n. unfairness

Question 55

inarticulate

Answer 55

adj. speechless; producing indistinct speech

Question 56

incline

Answer 56

n. slope; slant

Question 57

impassable

Answer 57

adj. not able to be traveled or crossed

Question 58

heedless

Answer 58

adj. not noticing; disregarding

Question 59

foster

Answer 59

v. rear; encourage

Question 60

exceptionable

Answer 60

adj. objectionable