List 12

Question 1

To punish or rebuke severely

Answer 1

Castigate

Question 2

To call or bring to mind

To summon using supernatural power

Answer 2

Conjure

Question 3

Concealed, hidden, secret, disguised

A covering; a shelter or hidden place

Answer 3

Covert

Question 4

To delay because of doubts or obligations; to take exception to

Answer 4

Demur

Question 5

Jumping from one thing to another in a haphazard way; unmethodical

Answer 5

Desultory

Question 6

Happening by chance or accident

Answer 6

Fortuitous

Question 7

To compare by placing two things parallel (adjacent)

Answer 7

Juxtapose

Question 8

To soften the anger of or to soothe hurt feelings; to make less intense or severe (pacify)

Answer 8

Mollify

Question 9

Most desirable or favorable

Answer 9

Optimal

Question 10

Very destructive

Answer 10

Pernicious

Question 11

Developed or matured before the usual time (refers especially to mental aptitude)

Answer 11

Precocious

Question 12

Involving much inactivity or sitting

Answer 12

Sedentary

Question 13

Joking

Answer 13

Facetious

Question 14

Belittling

Answer 14

Derogatory

Question 15

Changing unpredictably

Answer 15

Volatile

Question 16

Nonspiritual

Answer 16

Secular

Question 17

Pertaining to the night; done or occurring in the night

Answer 17

Nocturnal

Question 18

Pertaining to the world

Answer 18

Mundane

Question 19

Savage

Answer 19

Feral

Question 20

Obscure

Answer 20

Cryptic

Question 21

Slushy

Answer 21

Maudlin

Question 22

A long, noisy, or scolding speech

Answer 22

Harangue

Question 23

A request or favor; a blessing

Answer 23

Boon

Question 24

A looking back on the past

Answer 24

Retrospect

Question 25

To make impossible by previous action

Answer 25

Preclude

Question 26

Observable without being concealed

Answer 26

Overt

Question 27

Show

Answer 27

Manifest

Question 28

Deserving blame

Answer 28

Culpable

Question 29

Hoarse

Answer 29

Raucous

Question 30

Occurring or appearing after one’s death

Answer 30

Posthumous

Question 31

To test one’s endurance

Answer 31

Arduous

Question 32

Surly

Answer 32

Acrimonious

Question 33

Different from the usual or standard; hard to identify or classify because of abnormality

Answer 33

Anomalous

Question 34

Anti-

Answer 34

Against, opposite

Question 35

Bene-

Answer 35

Good, well

Question 36

CRED, CREDIT

Answer 36

To believe, to trust

Question 37

PLIC, PLICIT, PLEX, PLY

Answer 37

To fold, to interweave, to tangle

Question 38

-ology, -logy

Answer 38

Discourse, study