Lesson 2

Question 1

Alter

Answer 1

change, modify, adapt

Question 2

Apparel

Answer 2

attire, wardrobe, dress, garb

Question 3

Distort

Answer 3

misrepresent, misstate, garble

Question 4

Farce

Answer 4

mockery, burlesque, fake

Question 5

Fickle

Answer 5

inconstant, capricious, changeable

Question 6

Flimsy

Answer 6

weak, thin, unconvincing, inadequate

Question 7

Harbinger

Answer 7

omen, foreshadowing, forerunner, precursor, herald

Question 8

Interpret

Answer 8

explain, construe

Question 9

intimate

Answer 9

make known indirectly; hint; suggest; imply

Question 10

irrelevant

Answer 10

not relating to the subject; inapplicable

Question 11

lucrative

Answer 11

producing wealth; moneymaking; profitable

Question 12

malign

Answer 12

speak harmful untruths about; vilify; defame

Question 13

monumental

Answer 13

impressively large; huge; massive

Question 14

negligible

Answer 14

so tiny that it may safely be disregarded; slight

Question 15

prestige

Answer 15

standing in the eyes of others; influence; status

Question 16

quiver

Answer 16

shake with a slight, rapid motion; tremble; shiver

Question 17

rout

Answer 17

defeat disastrously and put to disorderly flight

Question 18

sage

Answer 18

person distinguished for wisdom; scholar

Question 19

ogre

Answer 19

hideous giant; person to be dreaded; monster; fiend; to-ger tyrant; despot

Question 20

weird

Answer 20

strikingly odd; strange; fantastic; bizarre