Part II

Question 1

Soporific

Answer 1

sleepy or drowsy; tediously boring or monotonous

Question 2

Obsequiousness

Answer 2

obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree

Question 3

Egress

Answer 3

to go out of or leave a place

Question 4

Whipsaw (n)

Answer 4

a saw with a narrow blade and a handle at both ends, used typically by two people

Question 5

Whipsaw (v)

Answer 5

subject to two difficult situations or opposing pressures at the same time

Question 6

Torpor

Answer 6

a state of physical or mental inactivity; lethargy

Question 7

Hegemonic

Answer 7

ruling or dominant in a political or social context

Question 8

Caromed (n)

Answer 8

any of the billiard games played on a table without pockets

Question 9

Caromed (v)

Answer 9

make a carom; strike and rebound

Question 10

Roil

Answer 10

Make (a liquid) turbid or muddy by disturbing the sediment; (of a liquid) move in a turbulent, swirling manner

Question 11

Effervescent

Answer 11

(of a liquid) giving off bubbles, fizzy; vivacious and enthusiastic

Question 12

Acrimonious

Answer 12

(typically of speech or a debate) angry and bitter

Question 13

Apoplectic

Answer 13

overcome with anger; extremely indignant

Question 14

Vanguard

Answer 14

a group of people leading the way in new developments or ideas

Question 15

Churlish

Answer 15

rude in a mean-spirited and surly way

Question 16

Divestitures

Answer 16

the action or process of selling off subsidiary business interests or investments

Question 17

Anodyne (adj)

Answer 17

not likely to provoke dissent or offense; inoffensive, often deliberately so

Question 18

Anodyne (n)

Answer 18

a painkilling drug or medicine

Question 19

Lubricious

Answer 19

offensively displaying or intended to arouse sexual desire; smooth and slippery with oil or a similar substance

Question 20

Portents

Answer 20

an exceptional or wonderful person or thing; a sign or warning that something, esp. something momentous or calamitous, is likely to happen

Question 21

Simulacrum

Answer 21

an image or representation of someone or something; an unsatisfactory imitation or substitute

Question 22

Ineffable

Answer 22

too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words, not to be uttered

Question 23

Vicissitude

Answer 23

a change of circumstances or fortune, typically one that is; alternation between opposite or contrasting things unwelcome or unpleasant

Question 24

Hepcat

Answer 24

a stylish or fashionable person, esp. in the sphere of jazz or popular music

Question 25

Emphatic

Answer 25

(of an action or event or its result) definite and clear; showing or giving emphasis

Question 26

Clutch

Answer 26

critical moment; a tight grasp or an act of grasping something

Question 27

Glower

Answer 27

have an angry or sullen look on one's face; scowl

Question 28

Apogee

Answer 28

the highest point in the development of something; the climax or culmination

Question 29

Tacit

Answer 29

understood or implied without being stated

Question 30

Liminality

Answer 30

of or relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process; occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold

Question 31

Soidisant

Answer 31

Self-styled; so-called

Question 32

Profligacy

Answer 32

reckless extravagance or wastefulness of resources

Question 33

Wrongheaded

Answer 33

having or showing bad judgment; misguided

Question 34

Fixer

Answer 34

a person who makes arrangements for other people, esp. of an illicit or devious kind

Question 35

Cross-Purpose

Answer 35

a purpose usually unintentionally contrary to another purpose of oneself or of someone or something else —usually used in plural

Question 36

Lope

Answer 36

a long bounding stride

Question 37

Lilt

Answer 37

a characteristic rising and falling of the voice when speaking; a pleasant gentle accent

Question 38

Insouciance

Answer 38

casual lack of concern; indifference

Question 39

Mea culpa

Answer 39

an acknowledgment of one's fault or error

Question 40

Amuse-bouche

Answer 40

a small complimentary appetizer offered at some restaurants

Question 41

Autodidact

Answer 41

a self-taught person

Question 42

Hors de combat

Answer 42

out of action due to injury or damage: “their pilots had been rendered temporarily hors de combat.”

Question 43

Maudlin

Answer 43

self-pityingly or tearfully sentimental, often through drunkenness: “the drink made her maudlin”

Question 44

Fabulate

Answer 44

relate (an event or events) as a fable or story

Question 45

Acrostic

Answer 45

a poem, word puzzle, or other composition in which certain letters in each line form a word or words

Question 46

Inveigle

Answer 46

persuade (someone) to do something by means of deception or flattery

Question 47

Continent (adj)

Answer 47

1. able to control movements of the bowels and bladder. | 2. exercising self-restraint, esp. sexually.

Question 48

Impresario

Answer 48

a person who organizes and often finances concerts, plays, or operas

Question 49

Stratagems

Answer 49

a plan or scheme, esp. one used to outwit an opponent or achieve an end

Question 50

Fracas

Answer 50

a noisy disturbance or quarrel