Highlighting Accomplishments and Justifying Efforts & Goals

Question 1

buttress

Answer 1

a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building;make stronger or defensible;reinforce with a buttress

Question 2

circumscribe

Answer 2

draw a line around;to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect;restrict or confine, “I limit you to two visits to the pub a day”

Question 3

exacting

Answer 3

requiring precise accuracy;severe and unremitting in making demands;having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures

Question 4

supplant

Answer 4

take the place or move into the position of

Question 5

forestall

Answer 5

keep from happening or arising; make impossible;act in advance of; deal with ahead of time

Question 6

mollify

Answer 6

make less rigid or softer;make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate;cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of

Question 7

decry

Answer 7

express strong disapproval of

Question 8

burnish

Answer 8

the property of being smooth and shiny;polish and make shiny

Question 9

eviscerate

Answer 9

having been disembowelled;verbtake away a vital or essential part of;remove the contents of;remove the entrails of;surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ

Question 10

circumspection

Answer 10

the quality of being wary and unwilling to take risks; prudence.

Question 11

coalescence

Answer 11

the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts

Question 12

slavish

Answer 12

abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant;blindly imitative

Question 13

ameliorate

Answer 13

get better;to make better

Question 14

bastion

Answer 14

projecting part of a rampart or other fortification;a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle;a group that defends a principle

Question 15

husband

Answer 15

a married man; a woman’s partner in marriage;use cautiously and frugally

Question 16

bulwark

Answer 16

a fencelike structure around a deck (usually plural);a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away;an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes

Question 17

disabuse

Answer 17

free somebody (from an erroneous belief)

Question 18

catalyze

Answer 18

change by catalysis or cause to catalyze

Question 19

gird

Answer 19

bind with something round or circular;prepare oneself for a military confrontation;put a girdle on or around;encircle or bind

Question 20

unsullied

Answer 20

spotlessly clean and fresh;of reputation

Question 21

exhortative

Answer 21

giving strong encouragement

Question 22

patrimony

Answer 22

a church endowment;an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture)

Question 23

defang

Answer 23

remove the fangs from

Question 24

imprimatur

Answer 24

formal and explicit approval

Question 25

fillip 

Answer 25

anything that tends to arouse

Question 26

sisyphean 

Answer 26

 both extremely effortful and futile