Missed Words 2

Question 1

Extemporaneous

Answer 1

Without prior thought or planning.

Question 2

Sophist

Answer 2

A person who reasons with cleaver but falicious arguments

Question 3

Speculative

Answer 3

Based on conjecture rather than knowledge

Question 4

Pastiche

Answer 4

An artistic work that imitates that of another work, artist, or period

Question 5

Vagrant

Answer 5

A person without a settled home who wanders from place to place begging

Question 6

Prolix

Answer 6

Using or containing too many words

Question 7

Preturnaturally

Answer 7

Beyond what is normal or natural

Question 8

Turgid

Answer 8

Pompous or bombastic

Question 9

Temerarious

Answer 9

Reckless, rash

Question 10

Paradigm

Answer 10

A typical pattern or example of something

Question 11

Subordinated

Answer 11

Treated or regarded as less importantance than something.

Question 12

Soverenity

Answer 12

Supreme power and authority

Question 13

Collude

Answer 13

Cooperate in some secret or unlawful way in order to deceive or take advantage of someone.

Question 14

Discomfiting

Answer 14

To make one feel uneasy or embarrased

Question 15

Slighted

Answer 15

Insulting by treating or speaking of them without proper respect or attention

Question 16

Affectation

Answer 16

Behavior, writing, or speech that is designed to impress

Question 17

Worldly-wise

Answer 17

Prepared by experience for life’s difficulties; not easily shocked or diceieved.

Question 18

Blighted

Answer 18

Having a severely determental effect on

Question 19

Antithesis

Answer 19

A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else

Question 20

Tepid

Answer 20

Only slightly warm; showing little enthusiasm

Question 21

Turbid

Answer 21

Confused or obscure in meaning; opaque

Question 22

Subjective

Answer 22

Based on or influenced by one’s personal feelings, tastes, or opinions

Question 23

Catharsis

Answer 23

The process of releasing and therefore finding release from strong or repressed emotions

Question 24

Coda

Answer 24

Concluding event, remark, or section

Question 25

Homily

Answer 25

A tedious moralizing discourse

Question 26

Coalesced

Answer 26

Came together

Question 27

Agglomerated

Answer 27

Formed into a mass or group

Question 28

Amortized

Answer 28

Pay off with regular payments

Question 29

Paradigm

Answer 29

A typical idea or example of something

Question 30

Neoligisms

Answer 30

Newly coined word or expression

Question 31

Enigma

Answer 31

A person or thing that is puzzling

Question 32

Quagmire

Answer 32

An awkward, complex, or hazardous situation

Question 33

Autodidacts

Answer 33

A self taught person

Question 34

Recidivists

Answer 34

Convicted criminal who reoffends

Question 35

Libertines

Answer 35

A person who behaves without moral principals

Question 36

Myrmidons

Answer 36

A follower or subordinate of of a powerful person. One who follows orders without morals.

Question 37

Alacrity

Answer 37

Speed