Hit Parade #1

Question 1

Approbation

Answer 1

Expression of approval or praise

Question 2

Arduous

Answer 2

Strenuous, taxing, requiring significant effort

Question 3

Canonical

Answer 3

Authorized, recognized, accepted, pertaining to, conforming to a canon

Question 4

Canon

Answer 4

Body of rules, standards, or principles accepted as axiomatic

Question 5

Capricious

Answer 5

Erratic, inclined to change one’s mind impulsively

Question 6

Chicanery / shi KAY nuh ree

Answer 6

Trickery or deception by quibble or sophistry

Question 7

Subterfuge

Answer 7

Trick or tactic used to avoid something

Question 8

Quibble

Answer 8

N- equivocation

V- to equivocate

Question 9

Sophistry
Sophism
Sophist

Answer 9

Superficially plausible but generally fallacious method of reasoning

The false argument itself

Question 10

Sundry - sun dree

Answer 10

Various, diverse

Question 11

Effrontery

Answer 11

Shameless boldness, barefaced audacity

She had the effrontery to ask for TWO free samples! JEW!

Question 12

Ennui / ahn WEE

Answer 12

Dissatisfaction resulting from boredom or apathy/lack of interest

Question 13

Erudite / er YOO dite

Erudition

Answer 13

Very learned, scholarly

Knowledge acquired by study; research; learning

Question 14

Fulminate

Answer 14

To protest against vehemently

The citizens fulminated against legalizing marijuana

Question 15

Ingenuous

Answer 15

Artless, candid, sincere

=/= disingenuous

Question 16

Inured

Answer 16

Accustomed to accepting something undesirable

Question 17

Magnanimous / mag NAN imous

Magnanimity / mag NAN imity

Answer 17

Generous in forgiving an insult or injury; high-minded, noble

Question 18

Martial

Answer 18

Associated with war and the armed forces

Question 19

Nascent

Answer 19

Coming into being; beginning to exist

South Sudan, a nascent nation, had only come to fruition two years ago.

Question 20

Nebulous

Nebula

Answer 20

Vague, cloudy, amorphous

Cloud of astral gas

Question 21

Obviate

Answer 21

To anticipate and prevent or eliminate 
to render (a threat) unnecessary

To obviate the risk of injury

Question 22

Paean / pee an

Answer 22

Song or hymn of praise ans thanksgiving

Question 23

Perfidy

Perfidious

Answer 23

Intentional breach of faith/trust; treachery

Someone so willing to betray trust

Question 24

Perfunctory

Answer 24

Cursory, done without care or interest, as though routine, hasty

Question 25

Perspicacious / pers pec acious | Perspicacity / pers pic acity

Answer 25

Acutely perceptive, heaving keen discernment | Discernment

Question 26

Prattle

Answer 26

to babble meaninglessly, talk in an empty, idle manner

Question 27

Precipitate

Answer 27

Verb- to bring about prematurely, hastily, suddenly (The Tunisian revolution precipitated an economic catastrophe) To throw, fling, hurl down To cast, plunge, violently (He precipitated himself into the altercation) Adj- acting w/ excessive haste or impulse; sudden, abrupt; w/o deliberation Britney Spears' 48-hr precipitate marriage was ephemeral at best.

Question 28

Predilection

Answer 28

Predisposition in favor of something

Question 29

Prevaricate | Prevarication

Answer 29

To deliberately avoid the truth; mislead

Question 30

Qualms

Answer 30

Uneasy feeling or pang of conscience (He has no qualms about lying) Sudden feeling of apprehension (He had sudden qualms about the success of venture.)

Question 31

Relegate

Answer 31

To forcibly assign (to a lower position)

Question 32

Consign to

Answer 32

To hand over; to transfer to another's custody (consign to his secretary) To set apart for, or devote to (Consign two days to Paris, one day to the Louvre, the other to the Eiffel)

Question 33

Reticent / RE ticent

Answer 33

Quiet, reserved

Question 34

Solicit

Answer 34

To seek for (sth) by respectful request | He solicited aid from the minister.

Question 35

Solicitous

Answer 35

Anxious or concerned, attentive (for, about) | I'm solicitous about my progressing hair loss.

Question 36

Sordid

Answer 36

Dirty, filthy, run-down, foul Ignoble

Question 37

Ignoble / ig noble

Answer 37

Of low character, aims, NOT NOBLE Mo concealed his ignoble purpose when funding HYPE.

Question 38

Squander

Answer 38

(away) | To waste by being prodigal

Question 39

Stupefy

Answer 39

To stun, baffle, amaze

Question 40

Stymie

Answer 40

To hinder, block, thwart

Question 41

Synthesis Synthesize

Answer 41

The combination of parts to make a whole To form by combining parts together

Question 42

Torque

Answer 42

Force that causes rotation

Question 43

Tortuous / tor chu ous

Answer 43

Winding, twisting, excessively complicated

Question 44

Truculent

Answer 44

Fierce, curel, belligerent

Question 45

Virulent

Answer 45

Extremely harmful, poisonous | Hostile, antagonistic

Question 46

Voracious

Answer 46

Having insatiable appetite

Question 47

Vicariously

Answer 47

Indirectly, as, by, or through a substitute

Question 48

Neologism / ne OH lij ism

Answer 48

New word, expression, or usage

Question 49

Canonize

Answer 49

To declare a deceased person a Saint Charbel