Deck V

Question 1

sprent with

Answer 1

speckled or spotted

The night sky was sprent with stars.

Question 2

contiguous

Answer 2

immediately adjacent

The Miami Airport is contiguous to Highway 836.

Question 3

preternatural

Answer 3

beyond what is natural

I have a preternatural ability to sense positional soundness in chess.

Question 4

lachrymal

Answer 4

tearful

Facing a scary possible cancer diagnosis I am lachrymal lately.

Question 5

laconic

Answer 5

using a few precise words

Father Dennison was very laconic and wise.

Question 6

parsimonious

Answer 6

extremely unwilling to spend money

Unless Congress becomes parsimonious the Nation will be bankrupt like China.

Question 7

persiflage

Answer 7

teasing banter

After telling Tim Watt I lived near Key West, I was subjected to his typical persiflage “I didn’t know you were gay.”

Question 8

solipsistic

Answer 8

characterized by the belief that only oneself exists and that everyone and everything else is imaginary

California is overrun by solipsistic zombies in Teslas.

Question 9

prepossessing

Answer 9

charming, attractive in manner or appearance

Dr. Jennifer Melfi in the Sopranos is prepossessing.

Question 10

Aesopian

Answer 10

characterized by a simple sounding message that contains a secret to those who have special knowledge

The mafioso Aesopian message “It is what it is.” relays the upcoming assassination of whomever it speaks.

Question 11

centripitalization

Answer 11

a move towards the center

The political centripitalization of Facebook and Apple fool no-one.

Question 12

fons et origo

Fonz ett or eego

Answer 12

the source

Godlessness is the fons et origo of the current decay in America.

Question 13

locus classicus

Answer 13

the classic example

St. Augustine is the locus classicus of sinner turned Saint.

Question 14

tantamount

Answer 14

equal in value

The Houthi’s repeated firing of rockets at the US Naval Fleet is tantamount to war.

Question 15

andragogy

Answer 15

adult education

Spoken English or ESL andragogy should be required of all immigrants.

Question 16

brimborion

Answer 16

something that is useless

Male drivers of overly large trucks are compensating for their obvious brimborion.

Question 17

neoteny

Answer 17

prolonged infantilism

Liberals are the quintessential examples of neoteny.

Question 18

paracme

Answer 18

past ones prime

Even paracme, the group Boston rocked.

Question 19

roinous

Answer 19

mean and nasty

Beth Dutton is roinous red head in Yellowstone.

Question 20

fictile

Answer 20

made of clay and moldable
fict = latin to mold

Sumerians were fond of fictile arts.

Question 21

felicitously

Answer 21

done in a way that makes people happy

She felicitously handled the feuding families.

Question 22

vedette

Answer 22

the female lead star, the center of attention

In any movie, Natalie Portman is always the vedette.

Question 23

obloquy

Answer 23

harsh public criticism and verbal abuse

FBI director Cheatle already is facing universal obloquy.

Question 24

winnowed

Answer 24

sifting out only the best

Not counting suicides, the original 2000 premed students at the University of Michigan was winnowed down to 137 by the time of graduation.

Question 25

indefeasible

Answer 25

not able to be annulled or defeated By move 15 my position was indefeasible.

Question 26

guileless

Answer 26

clueless, naive The guileless students don’t even understand which river and sea they want Palestine to have, ie the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.

Question 27

tropism

Answer 27

the innate tendency to react to a stimulus Unfortunately, the hard-learned tropism of many inner city Blacks is violence.

Question 28

unasinous

Answer 28

equally stupid Joe and Jill are unasinous.

Question 29

cockalorum

Answer 29

a self important little man Fauci is a cockalorum.

Question 30

latifundian

Answer 30

One who is rich in real estate Marty is a latifundian.

Question 31

paraph

Answer 31

a flourish in a signature to prevent forgery My paraph is a bit ostentatious.

Question 32

veridical

Answer 32

truthful Entanglement is veridical.

Question 33

pervicacity

Answer 33

stubborness Biden’s pervicacity is legend.

Question 34

couturier

Answer 34

a fashion designer In September all couturiers descend upon Paris.

Question 35

eudaemonism, eudaemonia

Answer 35

a system of ethics that stresses morality only if it leads to happiness Unfortunately, modern dissolute society has found eudaemonia in the excessive care of yippy, little French Bulldogs, rather than in the love of sacrificial Christ.

Question 36

hegira

Answer 36

a journey taken to avoid danger After Jesus’ birth Joseph took his young family on a hegira to Egypt.

Question 37

Attican

Answer 37

characterized by simple Athenian elegance The Attican home was beautiful.

Question 38

superannuation

Answer 38

becoming useless with age The superannuation of Biden and McConnell is complete.

Question 39

egroted

Answer 39

to feign sickness to avoid work Roz egroted in Acapulco, calling Frasier at home with an incriminating Mariachi band in the background.

Question 40

sippet

Answer 40

a small piece of bread to dip into sauce The sourdough baguette was the perfect sippet for the Shrimp Scampi.

Question 41

simulacrum

Answer 41

an inferior imitation Transvestites are mere simulacrums, both physically and mentally, of magnificent real women.