List 2B

Question 1

actuate

Answer 1

To move or incite to action.

Question 2

acumen

Answer 2

Quickness of intellectual insight, or discernment; keenness of discrimination.

Question 3

acute

Answer 3

Having fine and penetrating discernment.

Question 4

badger

Answer 4

To pester.

Question 5

baffle

Answer 5

To foil or frustrate.

Question 6

baleful

Answer 6

Malignant.

Question 7

barring

Answer 7

Apart from.

Question 8

bask

Answer 8

To make warm by genial heat.

Question 9

baste

Answer 9

To cover with melted fat, gravy, while cooking.

Question 10

battalion

Answer 10

A body of infantry composed of two or more companies.

Question 11

bauble

Answer 11

A trinket.

Question 12

bawl

Answer 12

To proclaim by outcry.

Question 13

beatify

Answer 13

To make supremely happy.

Question 14

beatitude

Answer 14

Any state of great happiness.

Question 15

beau

Answer 15

An escort or lover.

Question 16

becalm

Answer 16

To make quiet.

Question 17

bedaub

Answer 17

To smear over, as with something oily or sticky.

Question 18

bedeck

Answer 18

To cover with ornament.

Question 19

bedlam

Answer 19

Madhouse.

Question 20

befog

Answer 20

To confuse.

Question 21

beget

Answer 21

To produce by sexual generation.

Question 22

cabal

Answer 22

A number of persons secretly united for effecting some private purpose.

Question 23

cadence

Answer 23

Rhythmical or measured flow or movement.

Question 24

cadenza

Answer 24

An embellishment for a solo voice or instrument.

Question 25

caitiff

Answer 25

Cowardly.

Question 26

cajolery

Answer 26

Delusive speech.

Question 27

calculable

Answer 27

That may be estimated by reckoning.

Question 28

callosity

Answer 28

The state of being hard and insensible.

Question 29

callow

Answer 29

Without experience of the world.

Question 30

calumny

Answer 30

Slander.

Question 31

candor

Answer 31

The quality of frankness or outspokenness.

Question 32

canine

Answer 32

Characteristic of a dog.

Question 33

cant

Answer 33

To talk in a singsong, preaching tone with affected solemnity.

Question 34

capacious

Answer 34

Roomy.

Question 35

capitulate

Answer 35

To surrender or stipulate terms.

Question 36

caprice

Answer 36

A whim.

Question 37

captious

Answer 37

Hypercritical.

Question 38

captivate

Answer 38

To fascinate, as by excellence. eloquence, or beauty.

Question 39

carcass

Answer 39

The dead body of an animal.

Question 40

cardiac

Answer 40

Pertaining to the heart.

Question 41

cardinal

Answer 41

Of prime or special importance.

Question 42

carnage

Answer 42

Massacre.

Question 43

carnal

Answer 43

Sensual.

Question 44

carouse

Answer 44

To drink deeply and in boisterous or jovial manner.

Question 45

carrion

Answer 45

Dead and putrefying flesh.

Question 46

cartilage

Answer 46

An elastic animal tissue of firm consistence.

Question 47

caste

Answer 47

The division of society on artificial grounds.

Question 48

castigate

Answer 48

To punish.

Question 49

casualty

Answer 49

A fatal or serious accident or disaster.

Question 50

cataclysm

Answer 50

Any overwhelming flood of water.