PW VOCAB 1-7

Question 1

ridiculously old-fashioned

Answer 1

Antediluvian

Question 2

Approval or praise

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Approbation

Question 3

distinguished by relative degrees of ritual purity or pollution and of social status

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Caste

Question 4

A person or nation engaged in fighting during a war

Answer 4

Combatants

Question 5

The branch of law concerned with the preparations of documents for the transferring of property

Answer 5

Conveyancing

Question 6

The customary code of polite behavior in society or among members of a particular profession or group

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Etiquette

Question 7

Inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large, powerful, intense, or capable

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Formidable

Question 8

A period of two weeks

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Fortnight

Question 9

A small settlement, generally one smaller than a village

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Hamlet

Question 10

Incapable of making mistakes or being wrong

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Infallible

Question 11

A clumsy, stupid person

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Lummox

Question 12

The fact or condition of being magnanimous; generosity

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Magnanimity

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Ostentatiously rich and luxurious or lavish: Wealth

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Opulent

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The quality of being religious or reverent

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Piety

Question 15

An earlier event or action that is regarded as an example or guide to be considered

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Precedent

Question 16

A member or follower of any Western Christian churches that are separate from the Roman Catholic Church

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Protestants

Question 17

An act of retaliation: The forcible seizure of a foreign subject or their goods as an act of retaliation

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Reprisals

Question 18

Ask or beg for something earnestly or humbly

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Supplicating

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Full of difficulty or tribulation

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Torrid

Question 20

A person who is staying or working in a place for only a short time

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Transients

Question 21

Leadership or dominance, especially by one country or social group over others

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Hegemony

Question 22

The language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region:

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Vernacular

Question 23

The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vice

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Satire

Question 24

One’s opponent in a contest, conflict, or dispute

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Adversaries

Question 25

Given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior

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Capricious

Question 26

A child believed to have been secretly substituted by fairies for the parents’ real child infancy

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Changelings

Question 27

A conflict, or war

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Conflagration

Question 28

Ready to accept control or instruction; submissive

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Docile

Question 29

Deceive, trick: A victim deception

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Dupe

Question 30

An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned

Answer 30

Epithet

Question 31

Express strong disapproval or disagreement

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Expostulated

Question 32

irritable and quarrelsome

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Fractious

Question 33

Make rude and mocking remarks, typically in a loud voice: A rude mocking remark

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Jeers

Question 34

Very vivid in color, especially so as to create an unpleasantly harsh or unnatural effect: (of a description) presented in vividly shocking or sensational terms, especially giving explicit details of crime or sexual matters

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Lurid

Question 35

Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree

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Obsequiousness

Question 36

Stating or appearing to be true, but not necessarily so

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Ostensible

Question 37

Action or speech that makes someone annoyed or angry, especially deliberately

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Provocation

Question 38

the authority to represent someone else, especially in voting: A figure that can be used to represent the value of something in a calculation

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Proxy

Question 39

The forming of a theory or conjecture without firm evidence: Investment in stocks, property, or other venture in the hope of gain but with the risk of loss

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Speculations

Question 40

A person who takes a position of power or importance illegally by force

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Usurper

Question 41

A number of bullets, arrows, or other projectiles discharged at one time

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Volley

Question 42

Increasing in size or importance:

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Ascending

Question 43

Harshness of tone or manner

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Asperity

Question 44

Arithmetic

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Cipher

Question 45

A soldier armed with grenades or a grenade launcher

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Grenadier

Question 46

UNABLE TO BE PLEASED

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Implacability

Question 47

A person’s natural tendency or urge to act or feel in a particular way

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Inclination

Question 48

Inconvenience(someone)

Answer 48

Incommode

Question 49

Not in harmony or keeping with the surroundings or other aspects of something

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Incongruous

Question 50

Wanting to avoid activity or exertion; lazy

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Indolent

Question 51

an embarkment built to prevent the overflow of a river

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Levee

Question 52

The crux or central point of a matter

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Nub

Question 53

(of a person’s face) pale, typically because of poor health

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Pallid

Question 54

A person, especially a young one, endowed with exceptional qualities or abilities

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Prodigies

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Remarkably or impressively great in extent size, or degree: Unnatural or abnormal

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Prodigious

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Having or proceeding from an extreme or fanatical support or belief in something

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Rabid

Question 57

Make or become hard or solid

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Solidified

Question 58

Drink alcohol, especially habitually

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Tippling

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(especially in a woman) the quality of being attractively lively and animated

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Vivacity

Question 60

Habitual; usual

Answer 60

Wonted

Question 61

a long or rambling story

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Yarn