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**BEN / BENE**

Answer 1

**: GOOD** * **benediction: **act of uttering a blessing * **benefit: **anything advantageous to a person or thing * **benevolent: **desiring to do good to others * **benign: **having kindly disposition

Answer 2

**: TWO** * **biennial: **happening every two years * **bilateral: **pertaining to or affecting two or both sides * **bilingual: **able to speak one's native language and another with equal facility * **binocular: **having two eyes * **combination****: **the joining of two or more things into a whole

Answer 3

**: GOOD, GENEROUS** * **boan fide: **in good faith; without fraud * **bonus: **something given over and above what is due * **bountiful: **generous

Answer 4

**: SHORT , SMALL** * **abbreviate: **to shorten * **abridge: **to shorten * **brevity: ** an honorary promotion with no additoinal pay * **breviloquent: **laconic; concise in one's speech * **brevity: **shortness * **brief: **short

Answer 5

**: PURSE, MONEY** * **bursar: **treasurer * **bursary: **treasurer * **disburse: **to pay * **reimburse: **to pay back

Answer 6

**: TO FALL, TO HAPPEN BY CHANCE** * **accident: **happening by chance; unexpected * **cascade: **a waterfall descending over a steep surface * **coincidence: **a striking occurence of two or more events at one time, apparently by chance * **decadent: **decaying; deteriorating * **recidivist: **one who repeatedly relapses, as into crime

Answer 7

**: TO SING** * **accent: **prominence of a syllable in terms of pronunication * **chant: **a song; singing * **enchant: **to subject to magical influence; bewitch * **incantation: **the chanting of words purporting to have magical power * **incentive: **that which incites action * **recant: **to withdraw or disavow a statement

Answer 8

**: TO TAKE, TO GET** * **anticipate: **to realize beforehand; foretaste or foresee * **capture: **to take by force or stratagem * **emancipate: **to free from restraint * **percipient: **having perception; discerning; discriminating * **precept: **a commandment or direction given as a rule of conduct * **susceptible: **capable of receiving, admitting undergoing, or being affected by something

Answer 9

**: HEAD, HEADLONG** * **capital: **the city or town that is the official seat of government * **capitulate: **to surrender unconditionally or on stipulated terms * **caption: **heading or title * **disciple: **one who is a pupil of the doctrines of another * **precipice: **a cliff with a vertical face * **precipitate: **to hasten the occurrence of; to bring about prematurely

Answer 10

**: HEART** * **cardiac: ** pertaining to the heart * **concord: **agreement; peace, amity * **concordance: **agreement, concord, harmony * **discord: **lack of harmony between persons ro things * **encourage: **to inspire with spirite or confidence

Answer 11

**: FLESH** * **carnage: **the slaugther of a great number of people * **carnival: **a traveling amusement show * **carnival: **eating flesh * **incarnation: **a being invested with a bodily form * **reincarnation: **rebirth of a soul in a new body

Answer 12

**: TO CUT** * **cast****: **to throw or hurl; fling * **caste: **a hereditary social group, limited to people of the same rank * **castigate: **to punish in order to correct * **chaste: **free from obscenity; decent * **chastise: **to discipline, esp. by corporal punishment

Answer 13

**: TO BURN** * **caustic: **burning or corrosive * **cauterize: **to burn or deaden * **cautery: **an instrument used for branding; branding * **holocaust: **a burnt offering; complete destruction by fire or other means

Answer 14

**: TO GO, TO YIELD, TO STOP** * **accede: **to yield to a demand; to enter office * **antecedent: **existing, being, or going before * **cessation: **a temporary or complete discontinuance * **concede: **to acknowledge as true, just, or proper; admit * **incessant: **without stop * **predecessor: **one who comes before another in an office, position, etc.

Answer 15

**: SPEED** * **accelerant: **something used to speed up a process * **accelerate: **to increase in speed * **celerate: **speed; quickness * **decelerate: **to decrease in speed

Answer 16

**: HUNDRED, HUNDREDTH** * **bicentennial: **two-hundredth anniversary * **cent: **a hundredth of a dollar * **centigrade: **a temperature system with one hudred degrees between the freezing and boiling points of water * **centimeter: **one hundredth of a meter * **centipede: ** a creature with many legs * **century: **one hundred years * **percent: **in every hundred

Answer 17

**: CENTER** * **centrifuge: **an apparatus that rotates at high speed and separates substances of different densities using centrifugal force * **centrist: **of or pertaining to moderate political or social ideas * **concentrate: **to bring to a common center; to converge, to direct toward one point * **concentric: **having a common center, as in circles or spheres * **eccentric: **off-center

Answer 18

**: TO SEPARATE, TO DISTINGUISH, TO JUDGE, TO DECIDE** * **ascertain: **to make sure of; to determine * **certitude: **freedom from doubt * **criterion: **a standard of judgment or criticism * **discreet: **judicious in one's conduct of speech, esp. with regard to maintaining silence about something of a delicate nature * **discrete: **detached from others, separate * **hypocrite: **a person who pretends to have beliefs that she does not

Answer 19

**: COLOR** * **chromatic: **having to do with color * **chrome: **a metallic element (chromium) used to make vivid colors or something plated with chromium * **chromosome: **genetic material that can be studied by coloring it with dyes * **monochromatic: **having only one color

Answer 20

**: TIME** * **anachronism: **something that is out-of-date or belonging to the wrong time * **chronic: **constant, habitual * **chronology: **that sequential order in which past events occurred * **chronometer: **a highly accurate clock or watch * **synchronize: **to occur at the same time or agree in time

Answer 21

**: AROUND** * **circuit: **a line around an area; a racecourse; the path traveled by eletrical current * **circuitous: **roundabout, indirect * **circumference: ** the outer boundary of a circular area * **circumspect: **cautious; watching all sides * **circumstances: ** the existing conditions or state of affairs surrounding and affecting an agent

Answer 22

**: TO CUT** * **exorcise: **to seek to expel an evil spirit by ceremony * **incision: **a cut, gash, or notch * **incisive: **penetrating, cutting * **precise: **definitely stated or defined * **scissors: **cutting instrument for paper

Answer 23

**: TO SHUT, TO CLOSE** * **claustrophobia: **an abnormal fear of enclosed places * **cloister: **a courtyard bordered with covered walks, esp. in a religious insitution * **conclude: **to bring to an end; finish; to terminate * **disclose: **to make know, reveal, or uncover * **exclusive: **not admitting of something else; shutting out others * **preclude: **to prevent the presence, existence, or ocurrence of

Answer 24

**: TO SHOUT, TO CRY OUT ** * **clamor: **a loud uproar * **disclaim: **to deny interest in or connection with * **exclaim:** to cry out or speak suddenly and vehemently * **proclaim:** to announce or declare in an official way * **reclaim:** to claim or demand the return of a right or possesion

Answer 25

**: TO LEAN TOWARD** * **climax: **the most intense point in the development of something * **decline**: to cause to slope or incline downward * **disinclination**: aversion, distate * **proclivity**: inclination, bias * **recline**: to lean back

Answer 26

**: WITH, TOGETHER** * **coerce: **to compel by force, intimidation, or authority * **collaborate**: to work with another, cooperate * **collide**: to strike one another with a forceful impact * **commensurate**: suitable in measure, proportionate * **compatible**: capable of existing together in harmony * **concilate**: to placate, win over * **connect**: to bind or fasten together

Answer 27

**: TO KNOW** * **cognition:** the process of knowing * **incognito**: with one's name or identity concealed * **recognize**: to identify as already known

Answer 28

**: AGAINST** * **contradict: **to oppose; to speak against * **contrary**: opposed to; opposite * **controversy**: a disputation; a quarrel * **counterfeit**: fake; a false imitation * **countermand**: to retract an order * **encounter**: a meeting, often with an opponent

Answer 29

**: BODY** * **corporation**: a company legally treated as an individual * **corps**: a body ( an organized group ) of troops * **corpse**: a dead body * **corpulent**: obese; having a lot of flesh * **corset**: a garment used to give shape and support to the body * **incorporation**: combining into a single body

Answer 30

**: ORDER, UNIVERSE, WORLD** * **cosmetic: **improving the appearance ( making it look better ordered ) * **cosmic**: relating to the universe * **cosmology**: a theory of the universe as a whole * **cosmonaut**: an astronaut; an exploer of outer space * **cosmopolitan**: worldly * **cosmos**: the universe; an orderly system; order * **microcosm**: a small system that reflects a larger whole

Answer 31

**: RUNNING, A COURSE** * **concur:** to accord in opinion; agree * **courier**: a messenger traveling in haste who bears news * **curriculum**: the regular course of study * **cursive**: handwriting in flowing strokes with the letters joined together * **cursory**: going rapidly over something; hasty; superficial * **excursion**: a short journey or trip * **incursion**: a hostile entrance into a place, esp. suddenly * **recur**: to happen again

Answer 32

**: TO GROW** * **accretion: **an increase by natural growth * **accure**: to be added as a matter of periodic gain * **creation**: the act of producing or causing to exist * **excrescence**: an outgrowth * **increase**: to make greater in any repect * **increment**: something added or gained; an addition or increase

Answer 33

**: TO BELIEVE, TO TRUST** * **credentials: **anything that provides the basis for belief * **credit**: trustworthiness * **credo**: any formula of belief * **credulity**: willingness to believe or trust too readily * **incredible**: unbelievable

Answer 34

**: HIDDEN** * **apocryphal: **of doubtful authorship or authenticity * **crypt**: a subterranean chamber or vault * **cryptohgraphy**: procedures of making and using secret writing * **crytology**: the science of interpreting secret wirting, codes, ciphers, and the like

Answer 35

**: TO LIE DOWN** * **cubicle**: any small space or compartment that is partitioned off * **incubate**: to sit upon for the purpose of hatching * **incumbent**: holding an indicated position * **recumbent**: lying down; reclining; leaning * **succumb**: to give away to superior force; yield

Answer 36

**: FAULT, BLAME** * **culpable: **deserving blame or censure * **culprit**: a person guilty of an offense * **inculpate**: to charge with fault * **mea culpa:** through my fault; my fault

Answer 37

**: TO TEACH ** * **didactic:** intended for instruction * **docile**: easily managed or handled; tractable * **doctor**: someone licensed to practice medicine; learned person * **doctrine**: a particular principle advocated, as of a government of religion * **indoctrinate**: a imbue a person with learning

Answer 38

**: AWAY, OFF, DOWN, COMPLETELY, REVERSAL** * **decipher: **to make out the meaning; to interpret * **defame**: to attack the good name or reputation of * **deferential**: respectful; to yield to judgment * **defile**: to make foul, dirty, or unclean * **delineate**: to trace the outline of; sketch or trace in outline * **descend**: to move from a higher to a lower place

Answer 39

**: TO ERASE** * **delete: **erase; blot out; remove * **indelible**: impossible to erase; lasting

Answer 40

**: PEOPLE** * **democracy: **government by the people * **demographics**: vital and social statistics of populations * **endemic**: peculiar to a particular people or locality * **epidemic**: affecting a large number of people at the same time and spreading from person to person * **pandimic**: general, universal

Answer 41

**: RIGHT HAND, RIGHT SIDE, DEFT** * **ambidextrous: **equally able to use both hands * **dexter**: on the right * **dexterity**: deftness; adroitness

Answer 42

**: DAY** * **dial**: a device for seeing the hour of the day; a clock face; rotatable discs or knobs used as a control input * **diary**: a record of one's days * **dismal**: gloomy (from "bad days") * **diurnal**: daily * **meridian**: a direct line from the North Pole to the South Pole; the highest point reached by the sun; noon * **quotidian**: every day; ordinary

Answer 43

**: IN TWO, THROUGH, ACROSS** * **diagnose: **to identify disease or fault from symptoms * **dialogue**: conversation between two or more persons * **diameters**: a line going through a circle, dividing it in two * **dichotomy**: division into two parts, kinds, etc.

Answer 44

**: AWAY FROM, APART, REVERSAL, NOT ** * **diffuse: **to pour out and spread, as in a fluid * **dilate: **to make wider or larger; to cause tp expand * **dilatory**: inclined to delay or procrastinate * **disperse**: to drive or send off in various directions * **disseminate**: to scatter or spread widely; promulgate * **dissipate**: to scatter wastefully * **dissuade**: to deter by advice or persuasion

Answer 45

**: TO SAY, TO TELL, TO USE WORDS** * **dictionary: **a book containing a selection of the words of a language * **interdict**: to forbid; prohibit * **predict**: to tell in advance * **verdict**: a judgment or decision

Answer 46

**: WORTH** * **condign: **well deserved; fitting; adequate * **deigh**: to think fit or in accordance with one's dignity * **dignitary**: a person who holds a high rank or office * **dignity**: nobility or elevation of character; worthiness * **disdain**: to look upon or treat with contempt

Answer 47

**: OPINION ** * **dogma:** a system of tenets, as of a church * **orthodox**: sound or correct in opinion or doctrine * **paradox**: an opinion or statment contrary to accepted opinion

Answer 48

**: TO SUFFER, TO PAIN, TO GRIEVE** * **condolence: **expression of sympathy with one who is suffering * **doleful**: sorrowful, mournful * **dolorous**: full of pain or sorrow, grievous * **indolence**: a state of being lazy or slothful

Answer 49

**: TO GIVE ** * **anecdote: **a short narrative about an interesting event * **antidote**: something that prevents or counteracts ill effects * **donate**: to present as a gift or contribution * **endow**: to provide with a permanent fund * **pardon**: kind indulgence, forgiveness

Answer 50

**: OUT, OUT OF, FROM, FORMER, COMPLETELY** * **efface:** to rub or wipe out; surpass, eclipse * **evade**: to escape from, avoid * **exclude**: to shut out; to leave out * **exonerate**: to free or declare free from blame * **expire**: to breathe out; to breathe one's last; to end * **extricate**: to disentangle, release

Answer 51

**: SLEEP** * **dormant: **sleeping; inactive * **dormitory**: a place for sleeping; a residence hall

Answer 52

**: BACK** * **dorsal:** having to do with back * **endorse**: to sign on the back; to vouch for

Answer 53

**: DOUBT** * **dubiety: **doubtfulness * **dubious**: doubthful * **indubialble**: unquestionable

Answer 54

**: TO LEAD** * **abduct: **to carry off or lead away * **conducive**: contributive, helpful * **conduct**: personal behavior, way of acting * **induce**: to lead or move by influence * **induct**: to install in a position with formal ceremoies

Answer 55

**: SWEET** * **dulcet: **sweet; pleasing * **dulcified**: sweetened; softened * **dulcimer**: a musical instrument

Answer 56

**: HARD, LASTING** * **dour: **sullen, gloomy (originally: hard, obsitnate) * **durable**: able to resist decay * **duration**: the length of time something exists * **duress**: compulsion by threat, coercion * **endure**: to hold out against; to sustain without yielding * **obdurate**: stubborn, resistant to persuasion

Answer 57

**: FAULTY, ABNORMAL** * **dysfunctional: **poorly functioning * dyslexia: an impairment of the ability to read due to a brain defect * dyspepsia: imparied digestion * dystrophy: faulty or inadequate nutrition or development

Answer 58

**: SELF** * **ego: **oneself; the part of oneself that is self-aware * **egocnetric**: focused on oneself * **egoism/egotism**: selfishness; self-absorption

Answer 59

**: IN, INTO** * **embrace: ** to clasp in the arms; to include or contain * **enclose: **to close in on all sides

Answer 60

**: UPON** * **epidemic: **affecting a large number of people at the same time and spreading from person to person * **epidermis**: the outer layer of the skin * **epigram**: a witty or pointed saying tersely expressed * **epilogue**: a concluding part added to a literary work * **epithet**: a word or phrase, used invectively as a term of abuse

Answer 61

**: EQUAL, EVEN** * **adquate: **equal to the requirement or occasion * **equation**: the act of maing equal * **equidistant**: equally distant * **iniquity**: gross injustice; wickedness

Answer 62

**: TO WANDER** * **arrant: **notorious; downright (originally: wandering) * **err**: to go astray in thought or belief, to be mistaken * **erractic**: deviating from the proper or usual course in conduct * **error**: a deviation from accuracy or correctness

Answer 63

**: BECOMING** * **adolescent: **between childhood and adulthood * **convalescent**: recovering from illness * **incandescent**: glowing with heat; shining * **obsolescent**: becoming obsolete * **reminiscent**: reminding or suggestive of

Answer 64

: GOOD, WELL * **eugenic**: improvment of qualities of race by control of inherited characteristics * **eulogy**: speech or writing in praise or commendation * **euphemism**: pleasant-sounding term for somthing unpleasant * **euphony**: pleasaness of sound * **euthasia**: killing a person painlessly, usually one who has an incurable, painful disease

Answer 65

**: OUTSIDE, BEYOND** * **extract: **to take out, obtain against a person's will * **extradite**: to hand over ( person accused of crime) to state where crime was committed * **extraordinary**: beyond the ordinary * **extrasensory**: derived by means other than known senses

Answer 66

**: TO SPEAK** * **affable: ** friendly, courteous * **defame**: to attack the good name of * **fable**: fictional tale, esp. legendary * **famous**: well known, celebrated * **ineffable**: too great for description in words; that which must not be uttered

Answer 67

**: TO DO, TO MAKE** * **configuration: **manner of arrangment, shape * **counterfeit**: imitation, forgery * **deficient**: incomplete or insufficient * **effigy**: sculpture or model of person * **faction**: small dissenting group within larger one, esp. in politics * **factory**: building for manufacture of goods * **prolific**: producing many offspring or much output * **ratify**: to confirm or accept by formal consent

Answer 68

**: TO ERR, TO DECEIVE** * **default: ** to fail * **fail**: to be insufficient; to be unsuccessful; to die out * **fallacy**: a flawed argument * **false**: not true; erroneous; lying * **faux pas**: a false step; a social gaffe * **infallible**: incapable of being wrong or being deceived

Answer 69

**: FOOLISH** * **fatuity**: foolishness; stupidity * **fatuous**: foolish; stupid * **infatuated**: swept up in a fit of passion, impairing one's reason

Answer 70

**: TO BRING, TO CARRY, TO BEAR** * **confer**: to grant, bestow * **offer**: to present for acceptance, refusal, or consideration * **proffer**: to offer * **proliferate**: to reproduce; produce rapidly * **referendum**: to vote on political question open to the entire electorate

Answer 71

**: TO BOIL TO BUBBLE** * **effervescent**: with the quality of giving off bubbles of gas * **fervid**: ardent, intense * **fervor**: passion, zeal

Answer 72

**: FAITH, TRUST** * **affidavit**: written statement on oath * **confide**: to entrust with a secret * **fidelity**: faithfulness, loyalty * **fiduciary**: of a trust; held or given in trust * **infidel**: disbeliever in the supposed true religion

Answer 73

**: END** * **confine**: to keep or restrict within certain limits; imprison * **definitive**: decisive, unconditional, final * **final**: at the end; coming last * **infinite**: boundles; endless * **infinitesimal**: infinitely or very small

Answer 74

**: TO BURN** * **conflagration**: a large, destructive fire * **flagrant**: blatant, scandalous * **flambeau**: a lighted torch * **inflame**: to set on fire

Answer 75

**: TO FLOW ** * **deflect**: to bend or turn aside from a purpose * **flexible**: able to blend without breaking * **genuflect**: to bend knee, esp. in worship * **inflect**: to change or vary pitch of * **reflect**: to throw back

Answer 76

**: BEFORE** * **foreshadow**: be warning or indication of (future event) * **foresight**: care or provision for future * **forestall**: to prevent to advance action * **forthright**: straightforward, outspoken, decisive

Answer 77

**: CHANCE** * **fortuitous**: happening by luck * **fortunate**: lucky, auspicious * **fortune**: chance or luck in human affairs

Answer 78

**: STRENGTH ** * **forte**: strong point; something a person does well * **fortify**: to provide with fortifications; strengthen * **fortissimo**: very loud

Answer 79

**: TO BREAK** * **fractious**: irritable, peevish * **fracture**: breakage, esp. of a bone * **fragment**: a part broken off * **infringe**: to break or violate (a law, etc.) * **refractory**: stubborn, unmanageable, rebellious

Answer 80

**: TO FLEE, TO FLY** * **centrifugal**: flying off from the center * **fugitive**: on the run; someone who flees * **fugue**: a musical composition in which subsequent parts imitate or pursue the first part; a psychological state in which one flies from one's own identity * **refuge**: a haven for those fleeing * **refugee**: a fleeing person who seeks refuge * **subterfuge**: a deception used to avoid a confrontation

Answer 81

**: TO SHINE** * **effulgent**: shining forth * **refulgent**: radiant; shining

Answer 82

**: SMOKE** * **fume**: smoke; scented vapor; to emit smoke or vapors * **fumigate**: to treat with smoke or vapors * **perfume**: scents, from burning incense or other sources of fragrance

Answer 83

**: TO POUR** * **diffuse**: to spread widely or thinly * **fusillade**: continuous discharge of firearm or outburst of cirticism * **infusion**: the act of permeating or steeping; liquid extract so obtained * **profuse**: lavish, extravagant, copious * **suffuse**: to spread throughout or over from within

Answer 84

**: BIRTH, CREATION, RACE, KIND** * **carcinogenic**: producing cancer * **congenital**: existing or as such from birth * **gender**: classification roughly corresponding to the two sexes and sexlessness * **generous**: giving or given freely * **genertics**: study of heredity and variation among animals and plants * **progeny**: offspring, descendants

Answer 85

**: TO KNOW** * **agnostic**: one who believes that existence of God is not provable * **diagnose**: to identify disease or fault from symptons * **ignoramus**: a person lacking knowledge, uniformed * **ignore**: to refuse to take notice of * **prognosis**: to forecast, especially of disease

Answer 86

**: TO STEP** * **aggresive**: given to hostile act or feeling * **de****grade**: to humiliate, dishonor, reduce to lower rank * **digress**: to depart from main subject * **egress**: going out; way out * **progress**: forward movement * **regress**: to move backward, revert to an earlier state

Answer 87

**: TO WRITE, TO DRAW** * **diagram**: a figure made by drawing lines; an illustration * **epigram**: a short poem; a pointed statement * **grammar**: a system of language and its rules * **graph**: a diagram used to convey mathmatical information * **photograph**: a picture, originally made by exposing chemically treated film to light

Answer 88

**: PLEASING** * **gracious**: kindly, esp. to inferiors; merciful * **grateful**: thankful * **gratuity**: money given for good service * **ingratiate**: to bring oneself into favor

Answer 89

**: FLOCK** * **aggregate**: a number of things considered as a collective whole * **congregate**: to come together in a group * **egregious**: remarkably bad; standing out from the crowd * **gregarious**: sociable; enjoying spending time with others * **segregate**: to separate fromthe crowd

Answer 90

**: BY CHANCE** * **haphazard**: at random * **hapless**: without luck * **happen**: occur (originally: to occur by chance) * **happily**: through good fortune * **happy**: pleased, as by good fortune * **mishap**: an unlucky acciddent * **perhaps**: a qualifier suggesting something might (or might not) take place

Answer 91

**: HALF** * **hemisphere**: half a sphere; half of the Earth * **hemistich**: half a line of poetry

Answer 92

**: TO STICK** * **adherent**: able to adhere; believer or advocate of a particular thing * **adhesive**: tending to remain in memory; sticky; an adhesive substance * **coherent**: logically consistent; having waves in phase and of one wavelength * **inherent**: involved in the constitution or essential character of something

Answer 93

**: DIFFERENT, OTHER** * **heterodox**: different from acknowledged standard; holding unorthodox opinions or doctrines * **heterogeneous**: of other origin; not originating in the body * **heterosexual**: of or pertaining to sexual orientation toward members of the opposite sex; relating to different sexes

Answer 94

**: WHOLE** * **catholic**: universal * **holocaust**: a burnt offering; complete destruction by fire or other means * **hologram**: a sort of three-dimensional image * **holograph**: a document written entirely by the person whose name it's in * **holistic**: considering something as a unified whole

Answer 95

**: SAME** * **anomaly**: deviation from the common rule * **homeostasis**: a relatively stable state of equilibrium * **homogeneous**: of the same or similar kind of nature; of uniform structure of composition throughout * **homonym**: one of two or more words spelled and pronounced alike but different in meaning * **homosexual**: of, relating to, or exhibiting sexual desire toward a member of one's own sex

Answer 96

**: EARTH** * **exhume**: unearth * **humble**: down-to-earth * **humility**: the state of being humble

Answer 97

**: OVER, EXCESSIVE** * **hyperactive**: excessively active * **hyperbole**: purposeful exaggeration for effect * **hyperglycemia**: an abnormally high concentration of sugar in the blood

Answer 98

**: UNDER, BENEATH, LESS THAN** * **hypochodriac**: one affected by extreme depression of mind or spirits, often centered on imaginary physical ailments * hypocritical: pretending to have beliefs one does not * **hypodermic**: relating to the parts beneath the skin * **hypothesis**: assumption subject to proof

Answer 99

**: IMAGE, IDOL** * **icon**: a symbolic pictiure; a statue; something seen as representative of a culture or movement * **iconic**: being representative of a culture or movment * **iconoclast**: one who attacks established beliefs; one who tears down images * **iconology**: symbolism

Answer 100

**: ONE'S OWN** * **idiom**: a language, dialect, or style of speaking particular to a people * **idosyncrasy**: perculiarity of temperament; eccentricity * **idiot**: an utterly stupid person

Answer 101

: NOT, WITHOUT * (often the M is dropped and the first letter to which i is prefixed is doubled.) * **immoral**: not moral; evil * **impartial**: not partial or biased; just * **inactive**: not active * **indigent**: deficient in what is required * **indolence**: showing a disposition to avoid exertion; slothful * **innocuous**: not harmful or injurious

Answer 102

**: IN, INTO** * (often the M is dropped and the first letter to which i is prefixed is doubled.) * **implicit**: not expressly stated; implied * **incarnate**: a given a bodily, esp. a human, form * **indigenous**: native; innate, natural * **influx**: the act of flowing in; inflow * **intrisic**: belonging to a thing by its very nature

Answer 103

**: BETWEEN, AMONG** * **interim**: a temporary or provisional arrangement; meantime * **interloper**: one who intrudes in the domain of others * **intermittent**: stopping or ceasing for a time * **intersperse**: to scatter here and there * **interstate**: connecting or jointly involving states

Answer 104

**: INSIDE, WITHIN** * **intramural**: within a school; inside a city * **intrastate**: within a state * **intravenous**: inside the veins

Answer 105

**: WAY, JOURNEY** * **ambition**: strong desire to achieve (from "going around" for votes) * circuit: a lline around an area; a racecourse; the path traveled by eletrical current * **itinerant**: traveling * **itinerary**: travel plans * **reiterate**: to repeat * **transit**: traveling; means of transportation

Answer 106

**: TO THROW, TO THROW DOWN** * **abject**: utterly hopeless, humiliating, or wretched * **conjecture**: formation of opinion on incomplete information * **dejected**: sad; depressed * **eject**: to throw out; expel * **inject**: to place (quality, etc.) where needed in something

Answer 107

**: JOKE** * **jocose**: given to joking; playful * **jocular**: in a joking manner; funny * **jocund**: merry; cheerful * **joke**: a witticism; a humorous ancedote; something funny

Answer 108

**: TO MEET, TO JOIN** * **adjoin**: to be next to and joined with * **conjugal**: related to marriage * **conjunction**: joining; occuring together; a connecting word * **injunction**: a command; an act of joining; combining; a place where multiple paths join * **junta**: a group of military officers who join together to run a country; a council * **rejoinder**: to reply, retort * **subjugate**: to make subservient; to place under a yoke

Answer 109

**: DAY** * **adjourn**: to close a meeting; to put off further proceeding for another day * **journal**: a record of one's day * **journey**: a trip (originally: a day's travel)

Answer 110

**: TO JUDGE** * **adjudicate**: to act as judge * **judiciary**: a system of courts; members of a court system * **judicious**: having good judgment * **prejudice**: a previous or premature judgment; bias

Answer 111

**: LAW, TO SWEAR** * **abjure**: to renounce on oath * **adjure**: to beg or command * **jurisprudence**: a system of law; knowledge of law * **perjury**: willful lying while on oath

Answer 112

**: YOUNG** * **juvenile**: young; immature * **juvenilia**: writing or art produced in one's youth * **rejuvenate**: refresh; to make young again

Answer 113

**: TONGUE** * **bilingual**: speaking two languages * **language**: a system of (usually spoken) communication * **linguistic**: the study of language

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: PRAISE, HONOR * **cum laude:** with honor * **laudable**: praiseworthy * **laudatory**: expressing praise

Answer 115

**: TO WASH** * **ablution**: act of cleaning * **antediluvian**: before the biblical flood; extremely old * **deluge**: a great flood of water * **dilute**: to make thinner or weaker by the addition of water * **laundry**: items to be, or that have been, washed * **lavatory**: a room with equipment for washing hands and face

Answer 116

**: LOOSE** * **lax**: loose; undisciplined * **laxative**: medicine or food that loosens the bowels * **lease**: to rent out (that is, to let something loose for other's use) * **leash**: a cord used to hold an animal while giving it some freedom to run loose * **relax**: loosen; to less strict; clam down * **release**: let go; set free

Answer 117

**: TO READ, TO SPEAK** * **dialect**: a manner of speaking; a regional variety of a language * **lectern**: a reading desk * **lecture**: an instrucional speech * **legend**: a story; a written explanation of a map or illustration * **legible**: readble * **lesson**: instruction ( originally: part of a book or oral instruction to be studied and repeated to a teacher ) * **lexicographer**: a writer of dictionaries * **lexicon**: dictionary

Answer 118

**: TO SELECT, TO CHOOSE** * **collect**: to gather together or assemble * **ecletic**: selecting ideas, etc. from various sources * **elect**: to choose; to to decide * **predilection**: preference, liking * **select**: to choose with care

Answer 119

: TO LIFT, TO RISE, LIGHT (WEIGHT) * **alleviate**: to make easier to endure, lessen * **levee**: embankment against river flooding * **leviate**: to rise in the air or cause to rise * **levity**: humor, frivolity, gaiety * **relevant**: bearing on or pertinent to information at hand * **relieve**: to mitigate; to free from a burden

Answer 120

**: TO TIE, TO BIND** * **ally**: to unite: one in an alliance * **league**: an association; a group of nations, teams etc. that have agreed to work for a common cause * **liable**: legally responsible; bound by law * **liaison**: a connection; one who serves to connect * **lien**: the right to hold a property due to an outstanding debt * **ligament**: a band holding bones together; a bond * **ligature**: a connection between two letters; a bond * **oblige**: to obligate; to make indebted or form personal bonds by doing favor * **rely**: to depend upon ( orginally: to come together; to rally

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**: FREE** * **deliver**: to set free; to save; to hand over * **liberal**: generous; giving away freely * **liberality**: generosity * **liberate**: set free * **libertine**: one who follows one's own path, without regard for morals or other restrictions * **liberty**: freedom * **livery**: a uniform; an emblem indicating an owner of manufacturer ( originally: an allowance of food or other provisions given to servants )

Answer 122

**: STONE** * **acrolith: **a statue with a stone head and limbs (but a wooden body) * **lithography**: a printing process that originally involved writing on a flat stone * **lithology**: the study of rocks and stones * **lithotomy**: an operation to remove stones from the body * **megalith**: a very big stone * **monolith**: a single block of stone, often shaped into a monument

Answer 123

**: WORD, SPEECH, THOUGHT** * **colloquial**: of ordinary or familiar conversation * **dialogue**: conversation, esp. in a literary work * **elocution**: art of clear and expressive speaking * **eulogy**: speech or writing in praise of someone * **grandiloquent**: pompous or inflated in language * **loquacious**: talkative * **prologue**: introduce to poem, play, etc.

Answer 124

**: LIGHT (BRIGHTNESS)** * **illuminate**: to supply or brigthen with light * **illustrate**: to make intelligible with example or analogies * **illustrious**: highly distinguished * **lackluster**: lacking brilliance or radiance * **lucid**: easily understood, intelligible * **luminous**: bright, brilliant, glowing * **translucent**: permitting light to pass through

Answer 125

: TO PLAY * **allude**: to refer casually or indirectly * **delude**: to mislead the mind or judgment of, deceive * **elude**: to avoid capture or escape or escape defection by * **illustion**: something that deceives by producing a false impression of reality * **ludicrous**: ridiculous, laughable * **prelude**: a preliminary to an action, event, etc.

Answer 126

**: GREAT, LONG** * **macro**: broad; large; a single computer command that executed a longer set of commands * **macrobiotics**: a system intended to prolong life * **macrocephalous**: having a large head * **macrocosm**: the universe; a large system that is reflected in at least one of its subsets * **macroscopic**: large enough to be visible to the naked eye

Answer 127

**: BIG, GREAT** * **magnanimous**: generous in forgiving an insult or injury * **magnate**: a powerful or influential person * **magnify**: to increase the apparent size of * **magitude**: greatness of size, extent, or dimensions * **maxim**: an expression of general truth or principle * **maximum**: the highest amount, value, or degree attained

Answer 128

**: BAD, ILL, EVIL, WRONG** * **maladroit**: clumsy, tactless * **malady**: a disorder or disease of the body * **malapropism**: humorous miuse of a word * **malediction**: a curse * **malfeasance**: misconduct or wrongdoing often committed by a public official * **malfunction**: failure to function properlu * **malicious**; full of or showing malice * **maligh**: to speak harmful untruths about, to slander

Answer 129

**: HAND** * **emancipate**: to free from bondage * **manifest**: readily perceived by the eye or the understanding * **manual**: operated by hand * **manufacture**: to make by hand or machinery

Answer 130

: TO COMMAND, TO ORDER, TO ENTRUST * **command**: to order; an order; control * **commend**: to give something over to the care of anoter; to praise * **countermand**: to retract an order * **demand**: to strongly ask for; to claim; to require * **mandatory**; commanded; required * **recommend**; to praise and suggest the use of; to advise * **remand**: to send back

Answer 131

**: MIDDLE** * **immediate**: nearest; having nothing in between * **intermediate**: in the middle * **mean**: average; in the middle * **mediate**: to serve as a go-between; to try to settle an argument * **medieval**: related to the Middle Ages * **mediocre**: neither good nor bad; so-so * **medium**: size between small and large; a substance or agency that things travel through (as, for example, light travels through airm and news is conveyed by television and newspapers)

Answer 132

**: LARGE, GREAT** * **megalith: **a very big stone * **megalomania**: a mental condition involving delusion of greatness; an obsession with doing great things * **megalopolis**: a very large city * **megaphone**: a device for magnifying the sound of one's voice * **megaton**: explosive power equal to 1,000 tons of T.N.T

Answer 133

**: VERY SMALL** * **microbe**: a very small organism * **microcosm**: a small system that reflects a larger whole * **micron**: a millionth of a metwr * **microorganism**: a very small organism * **microscope**: a device that magnifies very small things for viewing

Answer 134

**: SMALL ** * **diminish**: to lessen * **diminution**: the act or process of diminishing * **miniature**: a copy or model that represents something in greatly reduced size * **minute**: a unit of time equal to one-sixtieth of an hour * **minutiae**: small or trivial details

Answer 135

: TO PROJECT, TO HANG OVER * **eminent**: towering above other: projecting * **imminent**: about to occur; impending * **preeminent**: superior to notable above all others * **prominent**: projecting outward

Answer 136

**: BAD, WRONG, TO HATE** * **misadventure**: bad luck; an unlucky accident * **misanthrope**: one who hates people or humanity * **missapply**: to use something incorrectly * **mischance**: bad luck; an unlucky accident * **mischief**; bad or annoying behavior * **misconstrue**: to take something in a way that was not intended; to understand something incorrectly * **misfit**: somebody or something that does not fit in

Answer 137

**: TO SEND** * **emissary**: a message or agent sent to represent the interests of another * **intermittent**: stopping and starting at intervals * **remission**: a lessening of intensity of degree * **remit**: to send money * **transmit**: to send from one person, thing, or place to another

Answer 138

: MIXED * **miscellaneous**: made up of a variety of parts or ingredients * **promiscuous**: consisting of diverse and unrelated parts or individuals; indiscriminate

Answer 139

**: TO MOVE** * **automobile: **a vehecle that moves under its own power; a motorized car * **demote**: to move downward in an organization * **immovable**: incapable of being moved; unyielding * **locomotion**: moving from place to place; the ability to do so * **mob**: the rabble; a disorderly group of people ( from the Latin *mobile vulgus*, meaning "the fickle crowd") * **mobile**: movable * **mobilize**: to make ready for movment; to assemble * **moment**: an instant; importance * **momentous**: of great importance (originally: having the power to move) * **momentum**: the force driving a moving object to keep moving; a growing force * **motion**: movement * **motive**: a reason for action; what moves a person to do something * **motor**: a device that makes something move * **mutiny**: rebellion against authority, esp. by sailors * **promote**: to move to a higher rank in an organization * **remove**: to take away; to move away

Answer 140

**: SOFT** * **emollient**: something that softens or soothes (e.g., a lotion) * **mild**: gentle; kind * **mollify**: soothe; soften; calm * **mollusk**: a phylum of invertebrate animals - including octopuses, squids, oysters, clams, and slugs -with soft bodies

Answer 141

**: ONE** * **monarchy**: rule by a single person * **monk**: a man in a religious order living apart from society (originally: a religious hermit) * **monochord**: a musical instrument with a single string * **monogram**: a design combining multiple letters into one * **monograph**: a scholarly study of a single subject * **monologue**: a speech or other dramatic composition recited by one person * **monomania**: an obsession with a single subject * **monotonous**: boring; spoken using only one tone

Answer 142

**: TO REMIND, TO WARN** * **admonish**: to counsel against something; caution * **monitor**: one that admonishes, cautions, or reminds * **monument**: a structure, such as a building, tower, or sculpture, erected as a memorial * **premonition**: forewarning, presentment * **remonstrate**: to say or plead in protect, objection, or reproof * **summon**: to call together; convene

Answer 143

**: DEATH** * **immortal**: not subject to death * **morbid**: susceptible to preoccupation with unwholesome matters * **moribund**: dying, decaying

Answer 144

**: SHAPE** * **amorphous: **without definite form; lacking a specific shape * **anthropomorphism**: attributionof human characteristic to inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena * **metamorphosis**: a transformation, as by magic or sorcery

Answer 145

**: MANY** * **multiple**: many, having parts; a number containing some quantity of a small number without remainder * **multiplex**: having many parts; a movie theater or other building with many separate unite * **multiply**: to increase; to become many * **multiudinous**: very many; containing very many; having very many forms

Answer 146

**: TO CHANGE** * **commute**: to substitute; exchange; interchange * **immutable**: unchangable, invariable * **mutation**: the process of being changed * **permutation**: a complete change; transformation * **transmute**: to change from one form into another

Answer 147

**: BIRTH** * **cognate**: related by blood; having a common ancestor * **naive**: lacking worldiness and sophistication; artless * **nascent**: starting to develop * **native**: belonging to one by nature; inborn; innate * **natural**: present due to nature, not artificial or man-made means * **renaissnace**: rebirth,esp. referring to culture

Answer 148

**: SHIP, SAILOR** * **astronaut:** one who travels in outer space * **circumnavigate**: to sail all the way around * **cosmonaut**: one who travels in outer space * **nauseous**: causing a squeamish feeling (originally: seasickness) * **nautical**: related to sailing or sailors * **naval**: related to the navy * **nave**: the central portion of a church (which resembles the shape of a ship) * **navy**: a military force consisting of ships and sailors

Answer 149

**: NOTHING, NONE** * **annilate**: wipe out; reduce to nothing * **nihilism**: denial of all moral beliefs; denial that existance has any meaning

Answer 150

**: HARM** * **innocent**: uncorrupted by evil, malice, or wrongdoing * **innocuous**: not harmful or injurious * **noxious**: injurious or harmful to health or morals * **obnoxious**: highly disagreeable or offensive

Answer 151

**: NIGHT** * **equinox**: one of two times in a year when day and night are equal in length * **noctambulant**: walkingat night; sleepwalking * **nocturnal**: related to the night; active at night * **noctune**: a dreamlike piece of music; a painting set at night

Answer 152

**: RULE, ORDER** * **astronomy**: the scientific study of the universe beyond the Earth * **autonomy**: independence, self-governance * **economy**: the careful of thrifty use of resources, as of income, materials, or labor * **gastronomy**: the art or science of good eating * **taxonomy**: the science, laws, or principles of classification

Answer 153

**: NAME** * **acronym**: a word formed from the initial letters of a name * **annoymous**: having an unknown or unacknowledged name * **nomenclature**: a system of name; systematic naming * **nominal**: existing in name only; negligible * **nominate**: to propse by name as a candidate * **noun**: a word that names a person, place, or thing * **renown**: fame; reputation * **synonym**: a word having a meaning similar to that of another word of the same language *

Answer 154

**: NOT** * **nonconformist**: one who does not conform to a church or other societal insitution * **nonentity**: something that does not exist; something that is unimportant * **nonpareil**: something with no equal * **nonpartisan**: not affiliated with a political party

Answer 155

**: NEW** * **innovate**: to begin or introduce something new * **neologism**: a newly coined word; phrase, or expression * **neophyte**: a beginner; a new convert; a new worker * **neoplasm**: a new growth in the body; a tumor * **nouveau** riche: one who had lately become rich * **novice**: a person new to any field or activity * **renovate**: to restore to an earlier condition

Answer 156

**: NOTHING** * **annul**: to cancel; to make into nothing * **nullify**: to cancel; to make into nothing * **nullity**: the condition of being nothing

Answer 157

**: TOWARD, TO, AGAINST, OVER** * **obses**: extremely fat; corpulent * **obfuscate**: to render indistinct or dim; darken * **oblique**: having a slanting or sloping direction * **obsequious**: overly submissive * **obstinate**: stubbornly adhering to an idea, inflexible * **obtuse**: not sharp, pointed, acute in any form

Answer 158

**: ALL** * **omnibus**: an anthology of the works of one author or of writings on related subjects * **omnipotent**: all powerful * **omnipresent**: everywhere at one time * **omniscient**: having infinite knowledge

Answer 159

**: BURDEN** * **exonerate: **to free from blame (orginally: to relieve of a burden) * **onerous**: burdensome; difficult * **onus**: a burden; a responsibility

Answer 160

: BONE * **ossify**: to become; to harden; to become callous * **ossuary**: a place where bones are kept; a charnel house * **osteopathy**: a medical system based on the belief that many illness can be traced to issues in the skeletal system

Answer 161

**: PEACE** * **appease**: to bring peace to * **pacifier**: something or someone that eases the anger or agitation of * **pacify**: to ease the anger or agitation of * **pact**: a formal agreement, as between nations

Answer 162

**: TO FEEL** * **palpable**: capable of being felt; tangible * **palpate**: to feel; to examine by feeling * **palpitate**: to beat quickly as the heart; to throb

Answer 163

**: ALL, EVERYONE** * **pandemic**: widespreadm general, universal * **penegyric**: formal or elaborate praise at an assembly * **panoply**: a wide-ranging and impressive array or display * **panorama**: an unobstruced and wide view of an extensive area * **pantheon**: a public building containing tombs or memorials of the illustratious dead of a nation

Answer 164

**: EQUAL** * **apartheid: ** any system or caste that separates * **disparage**: to belittle, speak disrespectfully about * **disparate**: essentially different * **par**: an equality in value or standing * **parity**: equally, as in amount, status, or character

Answer 165

**: NEXT TO, BESIDE** * **parable**: a short, allegorical story designed to illustrate a moral lesson or religious principle * **paragon**: a model of excellence * **parallel**: extending in the same direction * **paranoid**: suffering from a baseless distrust of others * **parasite**: an organism that lives on or within a plant or animal of another species, from which it obtains nutrients * **parody**: to imitate for purposes of satire

Answer 166

**: FEELING, SUFFERING, DISEASE** * **compassion**: a feeling of deep sympathy for someone struck by misfortune, accompanied by a desire to alleviate suffering * **dispassionate**: devoid of personal feeling or bias * **empathy**: the identification with the feelings or thoughts of others * **impassive**: showing or feeling no emotion * **pathogenic**: causing disease * **sociopath**: a person whose behavior is antisocial and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility * **sympathy**: harmony ro agreement in feeling

Answer 167

**: FEW, LITTLE, POOR** * **impoverish**: to deplete * **paucity**: smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness * **pauper**: a person without any personal means of support * **poverty**: the condition of being poor * **puerille**: childish, immature * **pusillanimous**: lacking courage or resolution

Answer 168

**: MONEY** * **impecunious: **having no money; penniless * **peculation**: embezzlement * **pecuniary**: relating to money

Answer 169

: CHILD, EDUCATION * **encyclopedia**: book or set of book containing article on various topics, covering all branches of knowledge or of one particular subject * **pedagogue**: a teacher * **pedant**: one who displays learning ostentatiously * **pediatrician**: a doctor who primarily has children as patients

Answer 170

**: FOOT** * **antipodes**: a places that are diametrically opposite each other on the globe * **expedite**: to speed up the progress of * **impede**: to retard progress by means of obstacles or hindrances * **pedals**: a foot-operated lever or part used to control * **pedestrian**: a person who travels on foot * **podium**: a small platform for an orchestra conductor, speaker, etc.

Answer 171

: TO DRIVE, TO PUSH * **compel**: to force; to command * **dispel**: to drive away; to disperse * **expel**: to drive out; to banish; to eject * **impel**: to force; to drive forward * **propel**: to drive forward

Answer 172

**: TO PAY, TO COMPENSATE** * **penal: **of or pertaining to punishment, as for crimes * **penalty**: a punishment imposed for a violation of law or rule * **penance**: a punishment undergone to express regret for a sin * **penitent**: contrite * **punitive**: serving for, concerned with, or inflicting punishment

Answer 173

**: ALMOST** * **peninsula**: a landmass that is mostly surrounded by water, making it almost an island * **penultimate**: second-to-last * **penumbra**: a shaded area between pure shadow and pure light

Answer 174

**: TO HANG, TO WEIGHT, TO PAY** * **appendage**: a limb or other subsidiary part that diverge from the central structure * **appendix**: supplementary material at the end of a text * **compensate**: to counterbalance, offset * **depend**: to rely; to place trust in * **indispensable**: absolutely necessary, essential, or requisite * **stipend**: a periodic payment; fixed or regular pay

Answer 175

**: COMPLETELY** * **perforate**: to make a way through or into something * **perfunctory**: performed merely as routine duty * **perplex**: to cause to be puzzled or bewildered over what is not understood * **persistent**: lasting or enduring tenaciously * **perspicacious**: shrewed, astute * **pertinacious**: resolute, persistent * **persue**: to read with thoroughness or care

Answer 176

**: AROUND** * **perimeter**: the border or outer boundary of two-dimensional figure * **peripatetic**: walking or traveling about; itinerant * **periscope**: an optical instrument for seeing objects in an obstructed field of vision

Answer 177

**: TO GO, TO SEEK, TO STRIVE** * **appetite**: a desire for food or drink * **centripetal**: moving toward the center * **compete**: to strive to outdo another * **impetuous**: characterized by sudden or rash action or emotion * **petition**: a formally a drawn request soliciting some benefit * **petulant**: showing sudden irritation, esp. over some annoyance

Answer 178

**: LOVE** * **bibliophile**: one who loves or collects books * **philatelist**: one who loves or collects postage stampes * **philology**: the study of literary texts to establish their authenticity and determine their meaning * **philosophy**: the rational investigation of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct

Answer 179

**: FEAR** * **claustrophobia**: fear of enclosed places * **hydrophobia**: fear of water, which is a symptom of rabies; rabies * **phobia**: fear; an irrational fear * **xenophobia**: fear of foreigners; hatred of foreigners

Answer 180

**: SOUND** * **euphony**: the quality of sounding good * **megaphone**: a device for magnifying the sound of one's voice * **phonetics**: the study of the sounds used in speech * **polyphony**: the use of the simulateous melodic lines to produce harmonies in musical compositions * **telephone**: a device for transmitting sound at a distance

Answer 181

**: LIGHT** * **photograph**: a picture, originally made by exposing chemically treated film to light * **photon**: a packet of light or other electromagnetic radiation * **photosynthesis**: the process by which plants create carbohydrate when under light

Answer 182

: TO PLEASE * **complacent**: self-satisfied, unconcerned * **complaisant**: inclined or disposed to please * **implacable**: unable to be pleased * **placebo**: a substance with no pharmacological effect that acts to placate a patient who believes it to be a medicine * **placid**: pleasantly clam or peaceful

Answer 183

**: TO FILL, FULL** * **complete**: having all parts or elements * **deplete**: to decrease seriously or exhaust the supply of * **implement**: an instrument, tool, or utensil for accomplishing work * **plethora**: excess, overabundance * **plenitude**: fullness * **replete**: abundantly supplied * **supplement**: something added to supply a deficiency

Answer 184

**: TO FOLD, TWIST, TANGLE, OR BEND** * **complex**: composed of many interconnected parts * **duplicity**: deceitfulness in speech or conduct, double-dealing * **implicate**: to show to be involved, usually in an incriminating manner * **replica**: any close copy or reproduction * **supplicate**: to make humble and earnest entreaty

Answer 185

**: MANY** * **polyandry: ** the practice of having multiple husbands * **polygamy**: the practice of having multiple wives * **polyglot**: someone who speaks many languages * **polygon**: a figure with many sides * **polythesim**: belief in many gods

Answer 186

**: TO PUT, TO PLACE** * **component**: a constituent part, elemental ingredient * **expose**: to lay open to danger, attack, or harm * **expound**: to set forth in detail * **juxtapose**: to place close together or side by side * **repository**: a receptacle or place where things are deposited

Answer 187

**: TO CARRY** * **deportment**: conduct, behavior * **disport**: to divert or amuse oneself * **export**: to transmit aboard * **import**: to bring in from a foreign country * **importune**: to urge or press with excessive persistence * **portable**: easily carried

Answer 188

**: BEHIND, AFTER** * **post facto**: after the fact * **posterior**: situated at the rear * **posterity**: future generations * **posthumous**: after death

Answer 189

**: TO DRINK** * **potable**: drinkable; safe to drink; a drink * **potation**: drinking; a drink * **potion**: a drinkable medicine, poison, or other concoction

Answer 190

: BEFORE, IN FRONT OF * **precarious**: dependent on circumstances beyond one's control * **precedent**: an act that serves as an example for subsequent situations * **precept**: a commandment given as a rule of action or conduct * **precocious**: unusually advanced ro mature in mental development or talent * **premonition**: a feeling of anticipation over a future event * **presentiment**: foreboding

Answer 191

: TO TAKE, TO GET, TO SEIZE * **apprehend**: to take into custody * **comprise**: to include or contain * **enterprise**: a project undertaken * **reprehensible**: deserving rebuke or censure * **reprisals**: retaliation against an enemy * **surprise**: to strike with an unexpected feeling of wonder or astonishment

Answer 192

**: FIRST** * **primary**: first; most important * **primal**: original; most important * **prime**: first in quality; best * **primeval**: ancient; going back to the first age of the world * **pristine**: original; like new; unspoiled; pure

Answer 193

**: IN FRONT, BEFORE, MUCH, FOR** * **problem**: a difficult question (orginally: one put before another solution) * **proceed**: to go forward * **profuse**: spending or giving freely * **prolific**: highly fruitful * **propound**: to set forth for consideration * **proselytize**: to convert or attempt to recruit * **provident**: having or showing foresight

Answer 194

**: TO PROVE, TO TEST** * **approbation**: praise, consideration * **opprobrium**: the disgrace incurred by shamful conduct * **probe**: to search or examine thoroughly * **probity**: honesty: high-mindedness * **reprobate**: a depraved or wicked person

Answer 195

**: NEAR** * **approximate**: very near; close to being accurate * **proximate**: nearby; coming just before or just after * **proximity**: nearness; distance

Answer 196

**: FIRST** * **protagonist**: the main character in a play or story * **protocol**: diplomatic etiqutte; a system of proper conduct; the original record of a treaty ot other negotiation * **prototype**: the first version of an invention, on which later models are based * **protozoan**: belonging to a group of single-celled animals, which came before more complex animals

Answer 197

**: FALSE** * **pseudonym**: a false name; a pen name * **pseudopod**: part of a single-celled organism that can be stuck out (like a foot) and used to move around * **pseudoscience**: false science; something believed to be based on the scientific method but that actually is not

Answer 198

**: TO FIGHT** * **impugn**: to challenge as false * **pugilist**: a fighter or boxer * **pugnacious**: to quarrel or fight readily * **repungnant**: objectionable or offensive

Answer 199

**: TO POINT, TO PRICK, TO PIERCE** * **compunction**: a feeling of uneasiness for doing wrong * **expunge**: to erase, eliminate completely * **point**: a sharp or tapering end * **punctilious**: strict or exact in the observance of formalities * **puncture**: the act of piercing * **pungent**: caustic or sharply expensive

Answer 200

: FIRE * **pyre**: a bonfire, usually for burning a dead body * **pyromania**: an urge to start fires * **pyrosis**: heartburn * **pyrotechnics**: fireworks

Answer 201

**: FOUR** * **quadrant**: a quarter of a circle; a 90-degree arc * **quadrille**: a square dance involving four couples * **quadruple**: four times as many * **quardruplets**; four children born in one birth * **quart**: one fourth of a gallon * **quaternary**: the number four; the fourth in a series

Answer 202

**: TO SEEK** * **acquire**: to come into possession of * **conquest**: the act gaining control by force * **exquisite**: of special beauty or charm * **inquisitive**: given to research, eager for knowledge * **perquiste**: a gratuity, tip * **querulous**: full of complaints * **query**: a question, inquiry

Answer 203

**: QUIET, REST** * **acquiesce**: to comply, give in * **disquiet**: lack of calm or peace * **quiescence**: the condition of being at rest, still, inactive * **quiet**: making little or no sound * **tranquill**: free from commotion or tumult

Answer 204

**: FIVE** * **quinquennial**: a five-year period; a fifth anniversary * **quintessence**: the essential part of something (originally: the "fifth essence," which was believed to permeate everything and be what stars and planets were made of ) * **quintuple**: five times as many

Answer 205

**: ROOT** * **deracinate**: to uproot * **eradicate**: to uproot; to wipout * **radical**: pertaining to roots; questioning everything, even basic belief; going to root causes; through * **radish**: a root vegetable

Answer 206

**: BRANCH** * **ramification**: a branch; an offshoot; a collection of branches; a consequence * **ramiform**: branchlike

Answer 207

**: BACK, AGIAN** * **recline**: to lean back; to lie down * **regain**: to gain again; to take back * **remain**: to stay behind; to be left; to continue to be * **reorganize**: to organize again * **request**: to ask (originally: to seek again)

Answer 208

**: STRAIGHT, RIGHT** * **correct**: to set right * **direct**: to guide; to put straight * **erect**: upright; starting up straight * **rectangle**: a four-sided figure in which every angle is a right angle * **rectitude**: moral uprightness; moral straightness

Answer 209

**: KING, RULE** * **interregnum**: a period between kings * **realm**: a kingdom; a domain * **regal**: kingly; royal * **regent**: one who serves on behalf of a king; one who rules * **regicide**: killing a king; one who kills a king * **regiment**: a body of troops in army; to form into such a body; to subject to strict rule * **regular**: having a structure following some rule; orderly; normally used; average

Answer 210

**: BACKWARD** * **retroactive**: extending to things that happened in the past * **retrofit**: to install newer parts into an older device or structure * **retrograde**: moving backward; appearing to move backward * **retrospective**: looking back at the past

Answer 211

**: TO LAUGH** * **derision**: the act of mockery * **risible**: causing laughter

Answer 212

**: TO ASK** * **abrogate**: to abolish by formal means * **arrogant**: making claims to superior importance or rights * **arrogate**: to claim unwarrantably or presumptuously * **derogatory**: belittling, disparaging * **interrogate**: to ask questions of, esp. formally * **surrogate**: a person appointed to act for another

Answer 213

**: RED** * **rouge**: a red powder used as makeup * **rubella**: German measles; a diease marked by red spots * **rubicund**: reddish; rosy-cheeked * **rubric**: a rule; a guide for scoring tests; a heading in a book set in red letters * **russet**: reddish-brown; a coarse cloth, usually reddish-brown; a type of apple or pear, typically reddish-brown

Answer 214

**: CRUDE** * **erudite**: scholarly; learned (that is, trained out of crudeness) * **rude**: uncivilized; impolite * **rudimentary**: underdeveloped; related to rudiments * **rudiments**: first principles; imperfect first step fo one's training

Answer 215

**: HOLY** * **execrable**: abominable * **sacrament**: something regarded as possessing sacred character * **sacred**: devoted or dedicated to a deity or religious purpose * **sacrifice**: the offering of some living or inanimate thing to a deity in homage * **sacrilege**: the violation of anything sacred * **sanctify**: to make holy * **sanction**: authoritative permission or approval

Answer 216

**: TASTE, THINKING, DISCERNING** * **insipid**: tasteless * **sagacious**: perceptive; discerning; insightful * **sage**: wise * **sapient**: wise * **savant**: a learned person * **savor**: taste; to enjoy flavors

Answer 217

**: TO LEAP, TO JUMP** * **assault**: a sudden or violent attack * **desultory**: at random, ummethodical * **exult**: to show or feel triumphant joy * **insolent**: boldly rude or disrespectful * **insult**: to treat with contemptuous rudeness * **resilient**: able to spring back to an original from after compression * **salient**: prominent or conspicuous * **somerault**: to roll the body end over end, making a complete revolution

Answer 218

**: SALT** * **salary**: payment for services (originally: money for Roman soldiers to buy salt) * **saline**: containing salt; salty

Answer 219

: HEALTH * salubrious: healthful * salutary: healthful * salute: to greet; a gesture of greeting (originally: to wish good health)

Answer 220

**: TO SAVE** * **salvage**: to save; something saved or recovered * **salvation**: being saved * **savior**: one who saves

Answer 221

**: HEALTHY** * **sane**: mentally healthy * **sanitarium**: a place of healing * **sanitary**: promoting health; related to conditions that affect health, such as cleanliness

Answer 222

: BLOOD * **consanguinity**: being related by blood * **sanguinary**: bloody; bloodthirsty * **sanguine**: hopful; confident ( from the "sanguine humor." which was believed to be associated with those traits)

Answer 223

**: ENOUGH** * **assets**: property; possesions (originally: enough property to cover one's debts) * **dissatisfied**: feeling that one does not have enough * **state**: to fill * **satify**: to meet one's desires; to meet an obligation; to provide with enough * **saturate**: to fill completely; to entirely satisfy

Answer 224

**: TO KNOW** * **conscience**: the inner sense of what is right or wrong; impelling one toward right action * **conscious**: aware of one's own existence * **omniscient**: knowing everything * **prescient**: having knowledge of thing before they happen * **unconscionable**: unscupuslous

Answer 225

**: TO WRITE** * **ascribe**: to credit or assign, as to a cause or course * **circumscribe**: to draw a line around * **conscription**: draft * **describe**: to tell or depict in words * **postcript**: any addition or supplement * **proscribe**: to condemn as harmful or odious * **scribble**: to write hastily or carelessly * **script**: handwriting * **transcript**: a written or typed copy

Answer 226

**: APART, AWAY** * **secede**: to withdraw formally from an association * **sedition**: incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government * **seduce**: to lead astray * **segregate**: to separate or set apart from others * **select**: to choose in preference to another * **separate**: to keep apart; divide * **sequester**: to remove or withdraw into solitude or retirement

Answer 227

**: TO FOLLOW** * **non sequitur**: an inference or a conclsion that does not follow from the premises * **obsequious**: fawning * **prosecute**: to seek to enforce by legal process * **pursue**: to chase after * **second**: next after the first * **sequence**: the following of one thing after another * **suite**: a series; a set (originally: a train of followesrs)

Answer 228

**: TO SIT, TO SETTLE** * **assiduous**: diligent, persistent, hardworking (literally, "sitting down" to business) * **dissident**: disagreeing, as in opinion or attitude (literally, "sitting apart") * **insidious**: intended to entrap or beguile; lying in wait to entrap * **preside**: to exercise management or control; to sit in the leader's chair * **resident**: a person who lives in a place * **residual**: remaining, leftover * **sediment**: the matter at which settle to the bottom of liquid * **session**: a meeting at which people sit together in dicussion

Answer 229

**: SEED, TO SOW** * **disseminate**: to spread; to scatter around * **semen**: seed ( of male animals) * **seminary**: a school, esp. for religious training (originally: a place for raising plants)

Answer 230

**: HALF** * **semicircle**: half a circle * **semiconscious**: only partly conscious; half awake

Answer 231

**: OLD ** * **senate**: the highest legislative body (from " council of elders") * **senescent**: getting old * **senile**: relating to old afe: experiencing memory loss or other age-related mental impairments * **sire**: a title for a king; a father (originally: an important person, an old man)

Answer 232

**: TO FEEL, TO BE AWARE** * **dissent**: to differ in opinion, esp. from the majority * **insensate**: without feeling or sensitivity * **presentiment**: a feeling that something is about to happen * **resent**: to feel or show displeasure * **sense**: any of the faculties by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating outside the body * **sensory**: of or pertaining to the senses or sensation

Answer 233

**: BEND, FOLD, CURVE** * **insinuate**: to introduce in sneaky or winding ways * **sinuous**: moving in a bending or wavy manner * **sinus**: a curved or irregularly shaped cavity in the body, such as those related to the nostrils

Answer 234

**: ALONE** * **desolate**: deserted; laid waste; left alone * **isolate**: to set apart from others * **soliloquize**: talk to oneself; talk onstage as if oneself * **solipism**: the belief that the only thing that really exists, or can really be known, is oneself * **solitude**: that state of being alone

Answer 235

**: TO LOOSEN, TO FREE** * **absolution**: forgiveness for wrongdoing * **dissolute**: indifferent to moral restraints * **dissolution**: the act or process of dissolving into parts or elements * **dissolve**: to make a solution of as by mixing in a liquid * **resolution**: a formal expreesion of opinion or intention made * **soluble**: capable of being dissolved or liquefied

Answer 236

: SUN * parasol: an umbella that protects from the sun * solar: related to the sun * solarium: a sumroom; a room with windows for taking in the sun * solistice: one of two days when the sun reaches its highest point at noon and seems to stand still

Answer 237

**: SLEEP** * **insomnia**: inability to sleep * **somnambulist**: a sleepwalker * **somniferous**: sleep-inducing * **somniloquist**: one who talks while asleep * **somnolent**: sleep-inducing; sleepy; drowsy

Answer 238

**: WISDOM** * **philosopher**: one who studies logic, beauty, truth, etc. one who seeks wisdom * **sophism**: a superficially appealing but fallacious argument * **sophisticated**: complex; worldly; experienced

Answer 239

**: TO RISE** * **insurgent**: rising up in revolution; rushing in * **insurrection**: risingj up in armed rebellion * **resurrection**: coming back to life; rising again * **source**: where something comes from (such as spring water rising out of the ground) * **surge**: to rise up forcefully, as ocean waves

Answer 240

**: TO LOOK, TO SEE** * **circumspect**: watchful and discreet, cautious * **conspicuous**: easily seen or noticed; readily observable * **persepctive**: one's mental view of facts, ideas, and their interrelationships * **perspicacious**: having keen mental perception and understanding * **retrospective**: contemplative of past situations * **specious**: deceptively attractive * **spectrum**: a broad range of related things that form a continuous series * **speculation**: the contemplation or consideraton of some subject

Answer 241

**: BREATH** * **aspire**: to desire; to pant for (originally: to breath on) * **expire**: to breath out; to breath one's last; to come to an end * **spirit**: the breath of life; the soul; an incorporeal supernatural being; an outlook; a lively quality

Answer 242

**: TO STAND, TO BE IN PLACE** * **apostasy**: renunciation of an object of one's previous loyalty * **constitute**: to make up * **destitute**: without means of subsistence * **obstinate**: stubbornly adhering to a purpose, opinion, or course of action * stasis: the state of equilibrium or inactivity caused by opposing equal forces * **static**: of bodies or forces at rest or in equilibrium

Answer 243

**: TO TIGHTEN, TO BIND** * **astringent**: causing to tighten * **constrain**: to confine; to bind within certain limits * **restriction**: a limitation * **strangle**: to kill by suffocation, usally by tightening a cord or one's hand around the throat

Answer 244

**: SWEET, PLEASING, TO URGE** * **assuage: **to make less severe, ease, relieve * **dissuade**: to deter; to advise against * **persuade**: to encourage; to convince * **suave**: smoothly agreeable or polite; sweet

Answer 245

: BELOW, UNDER * **subliminal**: existing or operating below the threshold of confidence * **submissive**: inclined or ready to submit * **subsidiary**: serving to assist or supplement * **subterfuge**: an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule * **subtle**: thin, tenuous, or rarefied * **suppose**: to put down as hypothesis; to use as the underlying basis of an argument; to assume

Answer 246

**: HIGHEST, TOTAL** * **consummate**: highly qualified; complete; perfect * **sum**: total; amount of money * **summary**: concise statement of the total findings on a subject; comprehensive * **summit**: hightest point

Answer 247

**: OVER, ABOVE** * **supercilious**: arrogant, haughty, condescending * **superfluous**: extra, more than necessary * **superlative**: the highest kind or order * supersede: to replace in power, as by another person or thing * **surmount**: to get over or across, to prevail * **surpass**: to go beyond in amount, extent, or degree * **surveillance**: a watch kept over someone or something

Answer 248

**: TOGETHER** * **symbiosis**: living together in a mutually beneficial relationship * **symmetry**: balanced proportions; having opposite parts that mirror one another * **sympathy**: affinity; feeling affected by what happens to another * **symposium**: a meeting at which ideas are discussed ( originally: a party at which people drink together) * **synonym**: a word that means the same thing as another * **synthesis**: combining things to create a new whole

Answer 249

**: TO BE SILENT** * **reticent**: disposed to be silent or not to speak freely * **tacit**: unspoken understanding * **tacitum**: uncommunicative

Answer 250

**: TO TOUCH** * **contact: **to touch; to get in touch * **contagious**: able to spread by contact, as disease * **contaminate**: to corrupt, taint, or otherwise damage the integrity of something by contact or mixture * **contiguous**: directly touching; sharing a boundary * **intact**: untouched; whole * **intangible**: unable to be tounched * **tactile**: pertaining to tounch; tounchable

Answer 251

**: TO HOLD** * **abstention**: the act of refraning voluntarily * **detain**: to keep from proceeding * **pertain**: to have reference or relation * **pertinacious**: persistent, stubborn * **sustenance**: nourishment, means of livelihood * **tenable**: capable of being held, maintained, or defended * **tenacious**: holding fast * **tenure**: the holding or possessing of anything

Answer 252

**: TO STRETCH , TO THIN** * **attenuate**: to weaken or reduce in force * **contentious**: quarrelsome, disagreeable, belligerent * **distend**: to expand by strecting * **extenuating**: making less serious by offering excuses * **tendentious**: having a predisposition toward a point of view * **tension**: the act of stretching or straining * **tentative**: of the nature of, or done as a trial, attempt

Answer 253

**: TO BEAR WITNESS** * **attest**: bear witness * **contest**: to dispute (from brining a lawsuit by calling witnesses) * **detest**: to despise; to hate ( originally: to curse something by calling upon God to witness it) * **protest**: a dissent; a declaration, esp. of disagreement * **testament**: a statment of a person's wishes for the disposal of his or her property after death; a will * **testify**: bear witness

Answer 254

**: GOD** * **apotheosis**: glorification, glorified ideal * **atheist**: one who does not believe in deity ro divine system * **theocracy**: a form of government in which a deity is recogized as the supreme ruler * **theology**: the study of divine things and divine faith

Answer 255

**: HEAT** * **thermal**: relating to heat; retaining heat * **thermometer**: a device for measuring heat * **thermonuclear**: relating to a nuclear reaction that takes place at high temperatures * **thermostat**: device for regulating heat

Answer 256

**: FEAR** * **intimidate: **to strike fear into; to make fearful * **timid:** fearful; shy

Answer 257

**: TO TWIST** * **contort**: to twist; to distort * **distort**: to pull out of shape, often by twisting; to twist or misrepresent facts * **extort**: to wring money, property, or services out of somebody using threats or force * **torch**: a portable flame used for light ( perhaps derived from hemp twisted around sticks, then dipped in pitch) * **torque**: twisting force; a force that creats rotation * **tort**: a wrongful act (other than breach of contract) that legally entitles one to damages * **torture**: to inflict pain ( including by twisting instrument like the rack or wheel)

Answer 258

**: STIFF, NUMB** * **torpedo: **a explosive weapon used to sink ships (originally: a fish-the electric ray-that could shock vitims to numbness) * **torpid**: numbed; sluggish * **torpor**: numbness; listlessness; apathy

Answer 259

**: POISON** * **antioxin: **antibody that counteracts a given poison * **intoxication**: being poisoned; drunknness * **toxic**: poisonous

Answer 260

**: TO DRAG, TO PULL, TO DRAW** * **abstract**: to draw ot pull away, remove * **attract**: to draw either by physical force or by an appeal to emotions or senses * **contract**: a legally binding document * **detract**: to take away from, esp. a positive thing * **protract**: to prolong, draw out, extend * **tractable**: easily managed or controlled * **tractor**: a powerful vehicle used to pull farm machinery

Answer 261

**: ACROSS, BEYOND** * **intransigent**: refusing to agree or compromise * **transaction**: the act of carrying on or conduct to a conclusion or settlement * **transcendent**: going beyond ordinary limits * **transgress**: to violate a law, command, or moral code * **transition**: a change from one way of being to another * **transparent**: easily seen through, recognized, or detected

Answer 262

**: LAST, BEYOND** * **penultimate**: second-to-last * **ulterior**: beyond what is immediately present; future; beyond what is stated; hidden * **ultimate**: last; final * **ultimatum**: final offer; final term * **ultraviolet**: beyond the violet end of the spectrum

Answer 263

**: SHADOW** * **adumbrate**: to foreshadow; to sketch; to overshadow * **penumbra**: a shaded area between pure shadow and pure light * **somber**: gloomy; darkened * **umbrage**: shade; shadow; displeasure; resentment * **umbrella**: a device providing shade from the sun or protection from rain

Answer 264

**: NOT** * **unseen: **not seen * **unusual**: not usual; exceptional; strange

Answer 265

**: WAVE** * **abound: **to be plentiful; to overflow (from water flowing in waves) * **inundate**: to flood * **undulate**: to move in a wavelike way

Answer 266

**: ONE** * **reunion: **a meeting that brings people back together * **unanimous**: of one mind; in complete accord * **uniform**: of one kind; consistent * **universe**: all things considered as one whole

Answer 267

**: CITY** * **suburb**: a rediential area just outside a city; an outlying area of a city * **urban**: relating to a city * **urbane**: polite; refined; polished ( considered characteristic of those in cities) * **urbanization**: the process of an area becoming more like a city

Answer 268

**: TO USE** * **abuse**: to use wrongly or improperly * **usage**: a customary way of doing something * **usurp**: to seize and hold * **utilitarian**: efficient, functional, useful

Answer 269

**: STENGTH, USE, WORTH** * **ambivalent**: being caught between contradictory feeling of equal power or worth * **avail**: to have force; to be useful; to be of value * **convalescent**: recovering strength; healing * **equivalent**: of equal worth, strength, or use * **evaluate**: to determine the worth of * **invalid**: having no force or strength; void * **valediction**: a farewell (from wishing that someone be well; i.e. that someone have strength) * **valid**: having force; legally binding; effective; useful * **value**: worth

Answer 270

**: TO COME OR TO MOVE TOWARD** * **adventitous**: accidental * **contravene**: to come into conflict with * **convene**: to assemble for some public purpose * **intervene**: to come between disputing factions, mediate * **venturesome**: showing a disposition to undertake risks

Answer 271

**: TRUTH** * **aver**: to affirm, to declare to be true * **veracious**: habitually truthful * **verdict**: a judgment or decision * **verisimilitude**: the apperance or semblance of truth * **verity**: truthfulness

Answer 272

: **WORD** * **proverb**: an adage; a byword; a short, commonly known saying * **verbatim**: exactly as stated; word-for word * **verbose**: wordy * **verbiage**: excessive use of words; diction

Answer 273

: **GREEN** * **verdant**: green with vegetation; inexperienced * **verdure**: fresh, rich vegetation

Answer 274

**: TO TURN** * **aversion**: dislike * **avert**: to turn away from * **controversy**: a public dispute involving a matter of opinion * **diverse**: of a different kind, form, character * **extrovert**: an outgoing person * **inadvertent**: unintentional * **introvert**: a person concerned primarily with inner thoughts and feeling * **revert**: to return to a former habit

Answer 275

: **LIFE** * **convivial**: sociable * **joie de vivre**: joy of life (French expression) * viable: capable of living * **vivacity**: the quality of being lively, animated, spirited * **vivid**: strinking bright or intense

Answer 276

**: TO SEE** * **adviser**: one who gives counsel * **evident**: plain or clear to the sight or understanding * **survey**: to view in a general or comprehensive way * **video**: element pertaining to the transimission or reception of an image * **vista**: a view or prospect

Answer 277

**: BASE, MEAN** * **revile**: to criticize with harsh language * **vile**: loathsome, unpleasant * **vilify**: to slander, to defame

Answer 278

**: POISON** * **virulent**: acrimonious; very bitter; very poisonous * **viruliferous**: containing a virus * **virus**: a submicroscopic agent that infects an organism and causes disease

Answer 279

**: CALL, WORD** * **advocate**: to support or urge by argument * **avocation**: something one does in addition to a principle occupation * **convoke**: to call together * **equivocate**: to use ambiguous or unclear exprssions * **invoke**: to call together * **vocabulary**: the stock of words used by or known to a particular person or group * **vocation**: a particular occupation * **vociferous**: crying out noisily

Answer 280

**: WISH** * **benevolent**: characterized by or expressing goodwill * **malevolent**: characterized by or expressing bad will * **volition**: free choice, free will; act of choosing * **voluntary**: undertaken of one's own accord or by free choice

Answer 281

**: TO ROLL, TO TURN** * **convolution**: a twisting or folding * **evolve**: to develop naturally; literally, to unfold or unroll * **revolt**: to rebel; to turn against those in authority * **revolve**: to rotate; to turn around * **voluable**: easily turning; fluent; changable * **volume**: a book ( origianally: a scroll ); size or dimensions (originally: of a book)

Answer 282

**: TO EAT** * **carnivorous**: meat-eating * **omnivorous**: eating or absoring everything * **voracious**: having a great appetite

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