Set 1 (04/30)

Question 1

irascible

Answer 1

易怒的; 暴躁的

Question 2

inscrutable

Answer 2

不可理解的; 不可思議的; 不可測知的

Question 3

lugubrious

Answer 3

很哀傷的

Question 4

imperturbable

Answer 4

沈著的; 冷靜的

Question 5

libertine

Answer 5

放蕩者; 玩樂者

Question 6

levity

Answer 6

輕率; 輕浮

Question 7

incipient

Answer 7

起初的

Question 8

indigence

Answer 8

貧乏; 窮困

Question 9

idolatrous

Answer 9

崇拜偶像的

Question 10

limpid

Answer 10

清澈的; 透明的

Question 11

transgress

Answer 11

違反, 違背

Question 12

transliterate

Answer 12

把…譯成另一語系中相應的字母, 翻譯

Question 13

transfix

Answer 13

(用尖銳物)刺穿…; 戳穿 嚇呆

Question 14

transcribe

Answer 14

抄寫, 謄寫

Question 15

transact

Answer 15

辦理、處理

Question 16

swerve

Answer 16

突然轉向; 轉彎; 偏離方向

Question 17

wallow

Answer 17

(豬等在泥水中)打滾

Question 18

jostle

Answer 18

推擠、競爭

Question 19

wriggle

Answer 19

蠕動; 扭動; 蜿蜒而行

Question 20

declaim

Answer 20

慷慨陳詞; 朗讀

Question 21

scoff

Answer 21

嘲笑, 嘲弄

Question 22

garble

Answer 22

斷章取義、曲解

Question 23

deride

Answer 23

嘲笑、嘲弄

Question 24

blather

Answer 24

滔滔不絕的講

Question 25

wrought

Answer 25

Just remember overwrought

Question 26

potboiler

Answer 26

賺稿費的文學作品或作家

Question 27

pique

Answer 27

生氣, 嘔氣, 慍怒

Question 28

feint

Answer 28

假裝; 佯(攻)

Question 29

foil

Answer 29

使受挫折; 擊退

Question 30

xyst | zist

Answer 30

(in an ancient Roman villa) a garden walk planted with trees. (in ancient Greek and Roman architecture) a covered portico, as a promenade. Paganism never troubled itself to be angry with mere philosophers who aired their elegant doubts in the shady xystus. -- F.W. Farrar , "The Victories of Christianity," The Witness of History to Christ , 1870

Question 31

Penultimate

Answer 31

adjective - next to the last: the penultimate scene of the play. - of or pertaining to a penult. noun -a penult. Quotes I forced myself to picture the last moments. The penultimate breath. A final sigh. And yet. It was always followed by another. -- Nicole Krauss , The History of Love , 2005

Question 32

hokum | HOH-kuhm

Answer 32

noun -out-and-out nonsense; bunkum. elements of low comedy introduced into a play, novel, etc., for the laughs they may bring. -sentimental matter of an elementary or stereotyped kind introduced into a play or the like. -false or irrelevant material introduced into a speech, essay, etc., in order to arouse interest, excitement, or amusement. Probably nowhere else do the popular playmakers of Broadway reveal their imaginative shortcomings so clearly as in the employment of what is known colloquially as hokum. -- George Jean Nathan , Comedians All , 1919