GregMat 25

Question 1

Adept

Answer 1

Highly skilled or proficient at something

Question 2

Adverse

Answer 2

Preventing success or development

Question 3

Appropriate

Answer 3

To take something for one’s own use

Question 4

Archetype

Answer 4

A very typical example of something

Question 5

Articulate

Answer 5

Able to express oneself clearly and effectively

Question 6

Auspicious

Answer 6

Conducive to success; favorable

Question 7

Bereft

Answer 7

Deprived of or lacking something

Question 8

Captious

Answer 8

Tending to find fault or raise petty objections

Question 9

Conclusive

Answer 9

Serving to settle an issue; decisive

Question 10

Conspire

Answer 10

To plan together secretly to commit an illegal act

Question 11

Delineate

Answer 11

To describe or portray something precisely

Question 12

Disentangle

Answer 12

To free something from entanglement

Question 13

Exhort

Answer 13

To strongly encourage or urge someone to do something

Question 14

Frailty

Answer 14

The condition of being weak or delicate

Question 15

Grievance

Answer 15

A real or imagined wrong causing complaint or protest

Question 16

Harangue

Answer 16

A lengthy and aggressive speech

Question 17

Ploy

Answer 17

A cunning plan or action designed to turn a situation to one’s advantage

Question 18

Poise

Answer 18

Graceful and elegant bearing

Question 19

Pomposity

Answer 19

Self-importance and arrogance

Question 20

Proxy

Answer 20

The authority to act for someone else

Question 21

Relent

Answer 21

To become less severe or intense

Question 22

Rhetoric

Answer 22

The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing

Question 23

Rigor

Answer 23

Strictness or severity

Question 24

Sparse

Answer 24

Thinly dispersed or scattered

Question 25

Steadfast

Answer 25

Firmly fixed in place or unwavering

Question 26

Suspect

Answer 26

To doubt the truth or genuineness of something

Question 27

Tedious

Answer 27

Too long, slow, or dull

Question 28

Vitality

Answer 28

The state of being strong and active

Question 29

Whimsical

Answer 29

Playfully quaint or fanciful

Question 30

Yield

Answer 30

To produce or provide something