From Practice

Question 1

Garrulous

Answer 1

Excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters

Question 2

Desiccated

Answer 2

Dried out

Extreme age or frailty

Question 3

Salubrious

Answer 3

Health-giving; healthy
“Salubrious weather”

(Of a place: pleasant, not run down)

Salu!

Question 4

Apocryphal

Answer 4

Doubtful, but believed to be true

Question 5

Perused

Answer 5

Read (something) typically in a thorough or careful way

Examine carefully or at length

Question 6

Arcane

Answer 6

Understood by few

Question 7

Harrowed

Answer 7

His words harrowed her soul

Distress, trouble, disturb

Question 8

Prolix

Answer 8

Too wordy

Question 9

Ebullience

Answer 9

State of being energetic, almost “bubbly” metaphorically

Question 10

Assiduous

Answer 10

showing great care and perseverance

Question 11

Seedy

Answer 11

Disreputable, sleazy

Question 12

Indigent

Answer 12

Poor; needy

Question 13

Indignant

Answer 13

Feeling or showing anger or annoyance at what is perceived as unfair treatment

Question 14

Logorrhea

Answer 14

A tendency to extreme loquacity

Question 15

Connubial

Answer 15

Relating to marriage
(With marriage)

Conjugal; nuptial

Nubile (of a young woman, sexually attractive)

Question 16

Abrogate

Answer 16

Revoke formally

Question 17

Truculence

Answer 17

Obstreperous

Pugnacity

Question 18

Machinate

Answer 18

Arrange by systematic planning and united effort

Question 19

Hobnobbing

Answer 19

Rubbing elbows with

Question 20

Muckraking

Answer 20

Explore and expose misconduct and scandals concerning public figures