Group 2

Question 1

What does ‘Comatose’ mean?

Answer 1

of, like, or in a coma or stupor

Question 2

What does ‘Composure’ refer to?

Answer 2

calmness of mind or manner; tranquility: self-possession

Question 3

What does ‘Concluded’ mean?

Answer 3

to bring to a close; end; finish

Question 4

What does it mean to condemn?

Answer 4

To pass an adverse judgment on someone or something.

Question 5

What is a conflict?

Answer 5

To come into collision or disagreement; contradictory, at variance, or in opposition.

Question 6

What does it mean to be contaminated?

Answer 6

To make impure, infected, or polluted by contact with or addition of something.

Question 7

What is contemplation?

Answer 7

Thoughtful inspection or study.

Question 8

What is consciousness?

Answer 8

The state of being conscious; awareness of one’s own feelings and what is happening around one.

Question 9

What is a contribution?

Answer 9

The act of contributing.

Question 10

What is a controversy?

Answer 10

A lengthy discussion of an important question in which opposing opinions clash.

Question 11

What are convictions?

Answer 11

The judgment of a jury or judge that a person is guilty of a crime as charged.

Question 12

What does crude mean?

Answer 12

In a raw or natural condition, before being prepared for use; not refined or processed.

Question 13

What does it mean to cruise?

Answer 13

To sail from place to place, as for pleasure or in search of something.

Question 14

What does culpable mean?

Answer 14

Deserving blame; blameworthy.

Question 15

What does curative refer to?

Answer 15

Of or for the curing of disease.

Question 16

What does curbing mean?

Answer 16

Anything that restrains or controls; a restraint or check.

Question 17

What does cursory mean?

Answer 17

Hastily, often superficially, done; performed rapidly with little attention to detail.

Question 18

What does curtailed mean?

Answer 18

To cut short; reduce; abridge.

Question 19

What is a cynosure?

Answer 19

Any person or thing that is a center of attention or interest.

Question 20

What does it mean to decimate?

Answer 20

To select by lot and kill every tenth one.

Question 21

What does deter mean?

Answer 21

To keep or discourage from doing something by instilling fear, anxiety, doubt, etc.

Question 22

What is a diatribe?

Answer 22

A bitter, abusive criticism or denunciation.

Question 23

What does dictatorial mean?

Answer 23

Of, like, or characteristic of a dictator; autocratic; tyrannical; domineering.

Question 24

What does diligent mean?

Answer 24

Persevering and careful in work; industrious.

Question 25

What does distinguished mean?

Answer 25

Celebrated; eminent.

Question 26

What does divisive mean?

Answer 26

Causing division; especially disagreement or dissension.

Question 27

What is a doctrine?

Answer 27

Something taught; teachings.

Question 28

What does dubious mean?

Answer 28

Feeling doubt; hesitating; skeptical.

Question 29

What does dusk refer to?

Answer 29

Dark in color; dusky; shadowy.

Question 30

What are ecosystems?

Answer 30

A system made up of a community of animals, plants, and bacteria interrelated together with its physical and chemical environment.

Question 31

What does ecstatic mean?

Answer 31

Of, having the nature of, or characterized by ecstasy.

Question 32

What is ecstasy?

Answer 32

An overpowering emotion or exaltation; a state of sudden, intense feeling.

Question 33

What does eligible mean?

Answer 33

Fit to be chosen; legally or morally qualified.

Question 34

What is empathy?

Answer 34

The projection of one's own personality onto the personality of another in order to understand the person better; ability to share in another's emotions, thoughts or feelings.

Question 35

What does 'Empirical' mean?

Answer 35

Relying or based solely on experiment and observation rather than theory.

Question 36

What does 'Encouraging' mean?

Answer 36

Giving courage, hope, or confidence to face; confront.

Question 37

What does 'Envisage' mean?

Answer 37

To imagine or conceive of something as a possibility.

Question 38

What does 'Equalized' mean?

Answer 38

To make equal.

Question 39

What does 'Erudite' mean?

Answer 39

Having or showing a wide knowledge gained from reading; learned; scholarly.

Question 40

What does 'Erroneous' mean?

Answer 40

Containing or based on error; mistaken; wrong.

Question 41

What does 'Espouse' mean?

Answer 41

To take as a spouse, esp. as a wife; marry.

Question 42

What does 'Esteemed' mean?

Answer 42

To have great regard for; value highly; respect.

Question 43

What does 'Essentially' mean?

Answer 43

Of or constituting the intrinsic, fundamental nature of something; basic; inherent.

Question 44

What does 'Evaluate' mean?

Answer 44

To find the value or amount of.

Question 45

What does 'Evaporate' mean?

Answer 45

To change (a liquid or solid) into vapor; drive out or draw off in the form of vapor.

Question 46

What does 'Eulogy' mean?

Answer 46

Speech or writing in praise of a person, event, or thing; esp., a formal speech praising a person who has recently died.

Question 47

What does 'Evidence' mean?

Answer 47

That which tends to prove or disprove something: ground for belief; proof.

Question 48

What does 'Evolution' mean?

Answer 48

An unfolding, opening out, or working out; process of development, as from a simple to a complex form, or of gradual, progressive change, as in a social and economic structure.

Question 49

What does 'Exhuming' mean?

Answer 49

To dig out of the earth; disinter.

Question 50

What does 'Existed' mean?

Answer 50

To have reality or actual being; be.