Group 4

Question 1

abstain

Answer 1

1. restrain oneself from doing or enjoying somethin g
2. formally decline to vote either for or against a proposal or motion

Question 2

approbation

Answer 2

approval or praise

Question 3

cherish

Answer 3

1. protect and care for someone lovingly
2. keeping a hope or ambition in ones mind

Question 4

corroborate

Answer 4

confirm or give support to a statement, theory or finding

Question 5

disparate

Answer 5

essentially different in kind, not able to be compared

Question 6

emulate

Answer 6

match or surpass a person or achievement, typically by imitation

Question 7

enervate

Answer 7

make someone feel drained of energy or vitality

Question 8

ephemeral

Answer 8

lasting for a very short time

Question 9

fervid

Answer 9

intensely enthusiastic or passionate, especially to an excessive degree

Question 10

garrulous

Answer 10

excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters

Question 11

incendiary

Answer 11

1. tending to stir up conflict
2. designed to cause fires

Question 12

inimical

Answer 12

tending to obstruct or harm

Question 13

intimate

Answer 13

1. closely acquainted; familiar
2. state of make known

Question 14

invigorate

Answer 14

give strength or energy to

Question 15

mitigate

Answer 15

make something less bad, severe, serious, or painful

Question 16

obsolete

Answer 16

no longer produced or used; out of date

Question 17

opaque

Answer 17

1. not able to be seen through; not transparent
2. especially of language - hard or impossible to understand

Question 18

paradigmatic

Answer 18

1. serving as a typical example or something, serves as a model
2. of or denoting the relationship between a set of linguistic items that form mutually exclusive choices in particular syntactic roles

Question 19

pedantic

Answer 19

excessively concerned with minor details or rules, over scrupulous

Question 20

placid

Answer 20

1. not easily upset or excited
2. calm and peaceful, with little movement or activity

Question 21

polemical

Answer 21

expressing a strongly critical attack on or controversial opinion

Question 22

precipitate

Answer 22

cause (an event or situation, typically one that is undesirable) to happen suddenly, unexpectedly, or prematurely

Question 23

profundity

Answer 23

great depth of insight or knowledge

Question 24

prophetic

Answer 24

accurately predicting what will happen in the future

Question 25

prudent

Answer 25

acting or showing with care and thought for the future

Question 26

punctilious

Answer 26

showing great attention to detail or correct behavior

Question 27

recondite

Answer 27

(of a subject or knowledge) little known, abstruse

Question 28

scrupulous

Answer 28

(of a person or process) careful, thorough and extremely attentive to details

Question 29

tranquil

Answer 29

free form disturbance; calm

Question 30

vacillate

Answer 30

waver between different options or actions, be indecisive