full set

Question 1

scourge

Answer 1

a person or thing that causes great trouble or misfortune

Question 2

brusque

Answer 2

abrupt or offhand

Question 3

gregarious

Answer 3

fond of company

Question 4

provincial

Answer 4

concerning a province

Question 5

impel

Answer 5

to drive, force, or urge

Question 6

impish

Answer 6

inclined to do naughty things for fun

Question 7

avarice

Answer 7

extreme greed

Question 8

burgeoning

Answer 8

increasing rapidly

Question 9

intrepidity

Answer 9

fearlessness and courage

Question 10

miasma

Answer 10

a highly unpleasant smell

Question 11

abrogation

Answer 11

the repeal of a law

Question 12

specious

Answer 12

superficially plausible but wrong

Question 13

exhortation

Answer 13

strongly encouraging someone to do something

Question 14

theocratic

Answer 14

system of government where priests rule in the name of God

Question 15

primeral

Answer 15

resembling the earliest ages of history

Question 16

suffuses

Answer 16

gradually spread through or over

Question 17

omnipotent

Answer 17

able to do all

Question 18

usurpation

Answer 18

take illegally by force

Question 19

convulsion

Answer 19

violent social upheaval

Question 20

insurrection

Answer 20

violent political uprising

Question 21

consanguinity

Answer 21

descending from the same ancestor

Question 22

acquiescence

Answer 22

accept something reluctantly but without protest

Question 23

engross

Answer 23

absorb all the attention or energy of

Question 24

unrequited

Answer 24

not returned or rewarded

Question 25

denunciations

Answer 25

public condemnations

Question 26

bequeath

Answer 26

leave someone as a beneficiary of a will

Question 27

inveigle

Answer 27

persuade someone to do something through deception

Question 28

abhorrence

Answer 28

a feeling of repulsion

Question 29

predilection

Answer 29

a strong bias

Question 30

maraud

Answer 30

roam in search for things to steal

Question 31

parochial

Answer 31

relating to the church

Question 32

exaltation

Answer 32

a feeling of extreme happiness

Question 33

providence

Answer 33

the protection of God

Question 34

guile

Answer 34

sly or cunning

Question 35

penitence

Answer 35

the action or feeling of regret

Question 36

unscrupulous

Answer 36

having no moral principles

Question 37

retrogression

Answer 37

returning to an earlier state

Question 38

mawkish

Answer 38

sentimental in a weak way

Question 39

hearken

Answer 39

to listen

Question 40

corpulent

Answer 40

having a large body

Question 41

salient

Answer 41

most noticeable or important

Question 42

promiscuous

Answer 42

having an indiscriminate approach

Question 43

reconfigured

Answer 43

to rearrange in an altered form

Question 44

unscrupulous

Answer 44

having no moral principles

Question 45

bereft

Answer 45

deprived or lacking

Question 46

inviolable

Answer 46

never to be broken or infringed

Question 47

innocuous

Answer 47

not harmful or offensive

Question 48

moratorium

Answer 48

temporary prohibition

Question 49

aggregate

Answer 49

all units as a whole

Question 50

austerity

Answer 50

sternness or severity

Question 51

populism

Answer 51

appeal to ordinary people

Question 52

ambivalence

Answer 52

having mixed feelings

Question 53

ecclesiastic

Answer 53

relating to the Christian church

Question 54

befuddling

Answer 54

confusing or perplexing

Question 55

fundamentalist

Answer 55

strict, literal understanding of scripture

Question 56

pluralist

Answer 56

appealing to the common man

Question 57

dearth

Answer 57

scarcity or lack

Question 58

gurullous

Answer 58

excessively talkative

Question 59

labyrinth

Answer 59

complicated maze

Question 60

unwieldly

Answer 60

not easily managed

Question 61

unnerving

Answer 61

causing one to lose courage

Question 62

solace

Answer 62

comfort or consolation in a time of despair

Question 63

perilous

Answer 63

full of danger and risk

Question 64

cursory

Answer 64

hasty and undetailed

Question 65

warbling

Answer 65

singing in a trilling or quavering voice

Question 66

semantics

Answer 66

study of language

Question 67

incarnate

Answer 67

embodying or represented in human form

Question 68

decrepitude

Answer 68

loss of strength, typically of old age

Question 69

disapprobation

Answer 69

strong disapproval

Question 70

unpreturbed

Answer 70

not disturbed or bothered

Question 71

venerability

Answer 71

commanding respect because of age or dignity

Question 72

haggard

Answer 72

looking exhausted and unwell

Question 73

effusive

Answer 73

extravagantly demonstrative

Question 74

opulence

Answer 74

wealth and luxury

Question 75

pontificate

Answer 75

express opinions in a pompous way

Question 76

supercilious

Answer 76

behaving as though one is superior

Question 77

languorous

Answer 77

pleasurable tiredness

Question 78

sycophancy

Answer 78

insincere flattery to try to gain advantage

Question 79

deference

Answer 79

humble submission

Question 80

irreverent

Answer 80

irreverent