Introduction

Question 1

Declaim

Answer 1

Speak in a dramatic way

Question 2

Matutinal

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Morning, early

Ex: Matutinal occasion

Question 3

Cavalier

Answer 3

Knight

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Resplendent

Answer 4

Shining

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Carapace

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Shell or bony armor

Question 6

Shoehorn

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Squeeze

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Convention

Answer 7

Customary practice or usage

Question 8

Purport

Answer 8

Give the appearance of

Question 9

Lagniappe

Answer 9

Gift with purchase

Question 10

Stentorian

Answer 10

Loud

Ex: stentorian voice

Question 11

Multifarious

Answer 11

Of great variety; diverse

Ex: the Internet has multifarious uses

Question 12

Comely

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Attractive

Question 13

Prognosticate

Answer 13

Predict, foretell

Question 14

Dogmatic

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Narrow ideally sticking to the rules

Question 15

Eschew

Answer 15

Deliberately avoid something

Question 16

Scintillating

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Shining brightly with flashes of light

Ex- could be a scintillating conversation

Question 17

Recalcitrant

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Stubbornly resistant to authority and control

Question 18

Obdurate

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Refusing to change one’s action; stubborn

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Hidebound

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Unwilling to change because of tradition or convention

Question 20

Quondam

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Former

Ex: Quondam friend

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Sagacious

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Acutely insightful and wise

Ex: a sagacious Supreme Court justice

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Erudite

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Having or showing profound knowledge

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Polymath

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A person of great and varied knowledge

- physics prizes and poetry competitions

Question 24

asunder

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into parts or pieces

- torn asunder