Deck H

Question 1

a fortiori

Answer 1

with even greater reason

A woman has de facto authority over her unborn child’s life, but a fortiori is responsible for the child’s protection.

Question 2

de facto

Answer 2

exercising legally constitutional powers

While a woman has de facto powers over her unborn child’s life, as a Mother she has a fortiori the moral responsibility to protect her helpless child.

Question 3

caudillo

Answer 3

a banana Republic petty dictator

Biden is nothing more than a excerebrose caudillo.

Question 4

eleemosynary

Answer 4

charitable

The leaders in the Ukraine are abusing our eleemosynary support.

Question 5

Fauvist

Answer 5

markedly vivid

The Fauvist Picasso lit the room with a joyous riot of colors.

Question 6

egalitarian

Answer 6

to be fair and balanced in the extreme

The statement that “All men are created equal.” while beautifully egalitarian, is nonetheless, historically false.

Question 7

fardel

Answer 7

a burden

At the end, with her severe dementia, Mom was a fardel.

Question 8

glean

Answer 8

to learn slowly and deliberately

One must glean a Math Textbook.

Question 9

writhen

Answer 9

twisted out of shape

The writhen oak survived the Hurricane.

Question 10

forfend

Answer 10

to prevent or protect

Hopefully the generator will forfend against a hurricane induced power loss.

Question 11

ataraxy

Answer 11

a state of supreme calmness

With death near, he suddenly experienced a golden ataraxy.

Question 12

excursus

Answer 12

a diversionary note in a book, often in an appendix

Infinite Jest has a 400 page excursus.

Question 13

abstruse

Answer 13

difficult to understand
Quantum Field Theory is abstruse.

Question 14

cavil

Answer 14

to raise trivial objections

All Brittany could do was cavil about her luxury suite.

Question 15

defi

Answer 15

a challenge

He hurled the defi of a duel with cream pies at twenty yards at his opponent’s feet.

Question 16

eclectic

Answer 16

varied

My reading tastes are not just eclectic, but down right weird.

Question 17

eloign

Answer 17

To move to a distant place

Dostoyevsky was eloigned to Siberia for reading aloud a letter to Golgol from Belinsky.

Question 18

faviform

Answer 18

honeycomb shaped

The faviform form of the NSA building made it look like a beehive.

Question 19

fealty

Answer 19

loyalty or obligation

All stood and Zig Heiled their fealty to the Furher.

Question 20

gorgonize

Answer 20

to mesmerize with ones looks

The beautiful, Natalie Portman can gorgonize any man in her presence.

Question 21

habile

Answer 21

skillful

The Marine Veteran’s habile handling of the store robbery saved the owners life.

Question 22

vedette

Answer 22

the leading star on stage or set

No matter where she went Farrah Fawcett was the vedette.

Question 23

puissant

Answer 23

powerful

The puissant message was delivered by the President.

Question 24

kevell

Answer 24

to be proud of someone

We all kvell over Michael.

Question 25

annealed

Answer 25

strengthened Telling me that I couldn’t be a doctor only annealed my resolve.

Question 26

cede

Answer 26

to grant or concede It is dangerous to cede Constitutional Rights to public opinion.

Question 27

demagogue

Answer 27

a politician who gains support by unrealistic promises Democrats are demagogues, while Republicans are wimps.

Question 28

embrangled

Answer 28

entangled Fucked Up Sam Freid became embrangled in BitCoin Fraud.

Question 29

gormandize

Answer 29

to eat like a glutton I will not gormandize today.

Question 30

raffine

Answer 30

refined and sophisticated The raffine Princess lightly swept down the marble staircase.

Question 31

juggernaut

Answer 31

an overwhelming force The juggernaut of Hannibal’s army crushed the Romans at Cannae.

Question 32

quietened

Answer 32

to make quiet or peaceful With a loud fart, the tearful child quietened.

Question 33

epos

Answer 33

ones epic sense St Theresa found her epos in God and self-sacrifice.

Question 34

frippery

Answer 34

inessential elegance Such frippery is a waste of ones life.

Question 35

tetchy

Answer 35

irritable and short tempered Without sleep I am tetchy.

Question 36

devoir

Answer 36

sense of duty It was the devoir of many young men in Britain to volunteer for WW1.

Question 37

winnowed

Answer 37

selected only the best The University of Michigan winnowed the premed class of 3000.

Question 38

anomie

Answer 38

a state of rootlessness from loss of proper values Our Godless society has descended into anomie and frippery.

Question 39

chattel

Answer 39

portable property of value, livestock The pig in Samoan families was the quintessential chattel.

Question 40

demarche

Answer 40

a course of action Putin’s dumb demarche will lead to a World War.

Question 41

ecumenical

Answer 41

having the support or representation by more than one faction An ecumenical committee is needed to decide wether or not to impeach Biden on charges of treason.

Question 42

ectype

Answer 42

an exact copy of something As the B21 rolled out of the Hangar at Edward’s Air Force Base, I wondered how many nanoseconds would pass before an ectype rolled out of Beijing.

Question 43

felicitously

Answer 43

ch by handling something well suited for the occasion He felicitously handled the difficult situation .

Question 44

imbroglio

Answer 44

a bitter altercation He felicitously handled the imbroglio.

Question 45

jark

Answer 45

a fake document The jark certifying the relic as part of Christ’s shroud fooled no one.

Question 46

flappable

Answer 46

quick to lose ones composure, upset Why are Black people so flappable?

Question 47

philomath

Answer 47

a lover of learning I am a philomath.

Question 48

breviloquent

Answer 48

concise in speech or writing Hemingway’s books are breviloquent.