Direct Hits History Vocabulary 4

Question 1

Draconian

Answer 1

characterized by very strict laws, rules, and punishments

Question 2

Laconic

Answer 2

very brief; concise; succint; terse

Question 3

Quintessential

Answer 3

the most perfect embodiment

Question 4

Spartan

Answer 4

plain; simple; austere

Question 5

Arduous

Answer 5

demanding

Question 6

Halycon

Answer 6

idyllically calm and peaceful; an untroubled golden time of satisfaction, happiness, and tranquility

Question 7

Sophistry

Answer 7

a plausible but deliberately misleading of fallacious argument designed to decieve someone

Question 8

Chimerical

Answer 8

given to fantastic schemes; existing only in the imagination;impossible; vainly conceived

Question 9

Ostracize

Answer 9

to deliberately exclude from a group; to banish

Question 10

Impecunious

Answer 10

poor; penniless; not affluent

Question 11

im

Answer 11

not

Question 12

Rendered

Answer 12

made

Question 13

Nefarious

Answer 13

famous for being wicked; villainous; vile

Question 14

Jovial

Answer 14

good-humored; cheerful; jocular

Question 15

Dirge

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a funeral hymm; a slow; mournful, lugubrious musical composition

Question 16

Maudlin

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tearful; excessively setimental, but not mawkish

Question 17

Incessantly

Answer 17

endlessly

Question 18

Mawkish

Answer 18

nauseatingly sentimental in a sickly, dull, insipid way

Question 19

Quixotic

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foolishly impractical in the pursuit of ideals; impractical idealism

Question 20

Pandemonium

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a wild uproar; tumult

Question 21

Panacea

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a remedy that will supposedly cure all diseases

Question 22

Panoply

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a complete suit of armor and thus covering that has all the necessary array of materials

Question 23

Martinent

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a strict disciplinarian; a person who demands absolute adherence to forms and rules

Question 24

Fiasco

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a complete failure; a debacle

Question 25

Belated

Answer 25

tardy, slow

Question 26

Bowdlerize

Answer 26

to remove or delete parts of a book, song or other work that are considered offensive; to expurgate

Question 27

Galvanize

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to electrify; to stir into action as if with an electric shock

Question 28

Figurative

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metaphorical

Question 29

Picayune

Answer 29

small value or importance; petty; trifling

Question 30

Gerrymander

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to divide a geographic area into voting districts so as to give an unfair advantage to one party in elections

Question 31

Maverick

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an independent individual who does not go along with a group or party; a nonconformist

Question 32

Juggernaut

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an irresistible force that crushes everything in its path

Question 33

Serendipity

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discovery by fortunate accident

Question 34

Zenith

Answer 34

the highest point; the peak; the apex

Question 35

Nadir

Answer 35

the lowest point; the bottom