list E

Question 1

chortle

Answer 1

v. Funny: to chuckle gleefully

Question 2

droll

Answer 2

n,v,adj. Funny: amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous

Question 3

facetious

Answer 3

adj. Funny: not meant to be taken seriously or literally. Amusing, humorous.

Question 4

flippant

Answer 4

adj. Funny: frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness

Question 5

gibe

Answer 5

v. Funny: to utter mocking or scoffing words; jeer

Question 6

jocular

Answer 6

adj. Funny: given to, characterized by, intended for, or suited to joking.

Question 7

levity

Answer 7

n. lightness of mind, character, or behavior; lack of appropriate seriousness

Question 8

ludicrous

Answer 8

adj. Funny: causing laughter because of absurdity; provoking or deserving derision; ridiculous; laughable

Question 9

raillery

Answer 9

n. Funny: good-humored ridicule; banter.

Question 10

abatement

Answer 10

n. Gaps/opening. the act or state of abating or the state of being abated; reduction; decrease; alleviation; mitigation.

Question 11

aperture

Answer 11

n. opening/gaps: an opening, as a hole

Question 12

fissure

Answer 12

n. opening/gaps: a narrow opening produced by cleavage or separation of parts.

Question 13

hiatus

Answer 13

n. opening/gaps: a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action. a missing part.

Question 14

interregnum

Answer 14

n. opening/gaps: an interval of time between the close of a sovereign’s reign and the accession of his or her normal or legitimate successor. any period of freedom from the usual authority

Question 15

interstice

Answer 15

n. opening/gaps: an intervening space. a small, narrow space, interval between things or parts.

Question 16

lull

Answer 16

v. opening/gaps: to put to sleep or rest by soothing means.

Question 17

orifice

Answer 17

n. opening/gaps: an opening or aperture, as of a tube or pipe

Question 18

respite

Answer 18

n. opening/gaps: a delay or cessation for a time, an interval of relief

Question 19

rift

Answer 19

n. opening/gaps: an opening made by splitting, cleaving.

Question 20

altruistic

Answer 20

adj. generous/kind

Question 21

beneficent

Answer 21

adj. generous/kind: doing good or causing good to be done

Question 22

clement

Answer 22

adj. generous/kind: mild or merciful in disposition or character.

Question 23

largess

Answer 23

n. generous/kind. generous bestowal of gift.

Question 24

magnanimous

Answer 24

adj. generous/kind: generous in forgiving an insult or injury; free from petty resentfulness or vindictiveness

Question 25

munificent

Answer 25

adj. generous/kind: extremely liberal in giving

Question 26

unstinting

Answer 26

v. generous/kind

Question 27

avaricious

Answer 27

adj. Greedy

Question 28

covetous

Answer 28

adj. Greedy: inordinately or wrongly desirous of wealth

Question 29

mercenary

Answer 29

n, adj. Greedy: working or acting merely for money or other reward

Question 30

miserly

Answer 30

adj. greedy: penurious, stingy

Question 31

penurious

Answer 31

adj. greedy: extremely stingy; parsimonious

Question 32

rapacious

Answer 32

adj. greedy: to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed

Question 33

venal

Answer 33

adj. Greedy: willing to sell one's influence, especially in return for a bribe; open to bribery;

Question 34

asperity

Answer 34

n. hard-hearted: harshness or sharpness of tone.

Question 35

baleful

Answer 35

adj. hardhearted: full of menacing or malign influences; pernicious

Question 36

dour

Answer 36

adj. hardhearted: sullen; gloomy; severe; stern

Question 37

malevolent

Answer 37

adj. hardhearted: wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will

Question 38

mordant

Answer 38

adj. hardhearted: sharply caustic or sarcastic

Question 39

sardonic

Answer 39

adj. hardhearted: characterized by bitter or scornful derision

Question 40

scathing

Answer 40

adj. hardhearted: bitterly severe, as a remark

Question 41

truculent

Answer 41

adj. hardhearted: fierce; cruel; savagely brutal

Question 42

vitriolic

Answer 42

adj. hardhearted: very caustic, scathing

Question 43

vituperation

Answer 43

n. hardhearted: verbal abuse or castigation; violent denunciation

Question 44

baleful

Answer 44

adj. harmful

Question 45

baneful

Answer 45

adj. harmful

Question 46

deleterious

Answer 46

adj. harmful: injurious to health

Question 47

inimical

Answer 47

adj. harmful: adverse in tendency or effect; unfavorable;; unfriendly; hostile

Question 48

injurious

Answer 48

adj. harmful.

Question 49

insidious

Answer 49

adj. harmful: intended to entrap or beguile

Question 50

minatory

Answer 50

adj. harmful: threatening.

Question 51

perfidious

Answer 51

adj. harmful: deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful

Question 52

pernicious

Answer 52

adj. harmful: causing insidious harm or ruin.