Group 13

Question 1

precarious

Answer 1

adj. uncertain, unstable; dependent on chance //__ living as a writer]

Question 2

volatile

Answer 2

adj. unpredictable; tense; evaporative

Question 3

impasse

Answer 3

n. deadlock, a situation in which no progress is possible esp bc of disagreement [the current political __]

Question 4

countenance

Answer 4

n. face, appearance; v. tolerate// it would ___ the acceptance of policies and practices contrary to the natural moral law

Question 5

placate

Answer 5

v. pacify, mollify, appease [they attempted to __the students]

Question 6

tout

Answer 6

v. peddle; solicit; recommend, attempt to sell something, typically by pestering people boldly

Question 7

flummox

Answer 7

v. perplex, bewilder, confound [___by the question]

Question 8

ensconced

Answer 8

v. plonk, nestle, settle smne in comfortable/secret place

Question 9

rapacious

Answer 9

adj. aggressively greedy or predatory [___ lending]

Question 10

cavalier

Answer 10

adj. arrogant, haughty, snobbish, off hand, showing lack of proper concern

Question 11

ornery

Answer 11

adj. bad-tempered, stubborn, vile

Question 12

rudimentary

Answer 12

adj. basic, fundamental

Question 13

truculent

Answer 13

adj. belligerent, eager to argue, fight, aggressively defiant

Question 14

irascible

Answer 14

adj. cantankerous, feisty, irritable, easily made angry

Question 15

scurvy

Answer 15

adj. contemptible, mean //__ trick

Question 16

craven

Answer 16

adj. cowardly, contemptibly lacking in courage

Question 17

vacuous

Answer 17

adj. empty, mindless, unintelligent [a ___ smile]

Question 18

wanton

Answer 18

adj. extravagant; malicious; reckless [__vandalism]

Question 19

sardonic

Answer 19

adj. grimly mocking or cynical

Question 20

churlish

Answer 20

adj. grumpy, surly, rude in a mean-spirited [it seems __ to complain]

Question 21

sordid

Answer 21

adj. ignoble, vile. filthy. squalid

Question 22

impervious

Answer 22

adj. immune, unable to be affected by

Question 23

promiscuous

Answer 23

adj. indiscriminately sexually active

Question 24

lecherous

Answer 24

adj. lewd, having or showing excessive or offensive sexual desire

Question 25

anomic

Answer 25

adj. loner, hermit. n. absence of social norms/values as in the case of uprooted people// Americans in other words, aren't suffering from _ie.

Question 26

malevolent

Answer 26

adj. malicious, wicked[ ______ eyes]

Question 27

specious

Answer 27

adj. misleading, seeming right but lacking merit

Question 28

atavistic

Answer 28

adj. primitive, relating to reversion to something ancient or ancestral [___fears and instincts]

Question 29

amorous

Answer 29

adj. romantic , erotic

Question 30

dastardly

Answer 30

adj. rotten, cowardly, mean, sneaking

Question 31

impertinent

Answer 31

adj. rude; irrelevant

Question 32

lascivious

Answer 32

adj. salacious, lewd, inclined to lust, arousing

Question 33

obtuse

Answer 33

adj. slow, dense, dumb, insensitive

Question 34

meretricious

Answer 34

adj. tawdry, flashy, seeming to have value, but not

Question 35

unwitting

Answer 35

adj. unintentional, inadvertent, not fully aware of facts

Question 36

apocryphal

Answer 36

adj. unsubstantiated, questionable, of doubtful authorship or authenticity

Question 37

ribald

Answer 37

adj. vulgar, coursely irreverent, scurrilous

Question 38

nefarious

Answer 38

adj. wicked or criminal

Question 39

rancor

Answer 39

n. bitterness, enmity, hatefulness, acrimony

Question 40

mendacity

Answer 40

n. deceit, untruthfulness

Question 41

sadism

Answer 41

n. deliberate cruelty, the tendency to derive pleasure, esp sexual gratification, from inflicting sufferingon others

Question 42

snit

Answer 42

n. fit of irritation, a sulk [he withdrew in a __]

Question 43

enmity

Answer 43

n. hatred, animosity, a condition or feeling of hostility. [___ towards bad people]

Question 44

voyeur

Answer 44

n. peeping tom

Question 45

schadenfreude

Answer 45

n. pleasure derived by somone from another person's misfortune

Question 46

subterfuge

Answer 46

n. ploy, ruse, sham, cheating

Question 47

verisimilitude

Answer 47

n. realism, believability, lifelikeness [the _ of her performance is gripping]

Question 48

derision

Answer 48

n. ridicule, mockery// the inept performance elicited __ from the audience

Question 49

stature

Answer 49

n. standing, distinction, level of importance gained by ability [an architect of international ___]

Question 50

hector

Answer 50

n. v. bully