Set 2

Question 1

Adulation

Answer 1

Excessive praise; intense adoration

Question 2

Ascetic

Answer 2

One who practices rigid self-denial especially as an act of religious devotion

Question 3

Avarice (avaricious)

Answer 3

Greed especially for wealth

Question 4

Axiom

Answer 4

A universally recognized principle

Question 5

Burgeon

Answer 5

To grow rapidly or flourish

Question 6

Bucolic

Answer 6

Rustic or pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants

Question 7

Canon

Answer 7

An established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature

Question 8

Caustic

Answer 8

Burning or stinging; causing corrosion

Question 9

Chary

Answer 9

Wary, causing, sparing

Question 10

Cogent

Answer 10

Appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing

Question 11

Complaisance

Answer 11

The willingness to comply with the wishes of others

Question 12

Contentious

Answer 12

Argumentative, quarrelsome, causing controversy or disagreement

Question 13

Contrite

Answer 13

Regretful, penitent, seeking forgiveness

Question 14

Culpable

Answer 14

Deserving blame

Question 15

Dearth

Answer 15

Smallness of quantity or number, scarcity or a lack

Question 16

Discretion

Answer 16

Causing reserve in speech, ability to make responsible decisions

Question 17

Disinterested

Answer 17

Free or Bias, self-interest, impartial

Question 18

Ebullience

Answer 18

The quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings

Question 19

Emollient

Answer 19

Soothing especially to the skin/ making something less harsh/ mollifying

Question 20

Empirical

Answer 20

Based on observation or experiment

Question 21

Furtive

Answer 21

Marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious

Question 22

Heretical

Answer 22

Violating accepted dogma or conventions

Question 23

Incipient

Answer 23

Beginning to come into being or to become apparent

Question 24

Inveigle

Answer 24

To obtain by deception or flattery

Question 25

Penurious

Answer 25

Penny pinching, excessively thrifty, ugenerous

Question 26

Pernicious

Answer 26

Extremely harmful, potentially causing death

Question 27

Pious

Answer 27

Extremely reverent or devout. Showing strong religious devotion

Question 28

Preen

Answer 28

To dress up, to primp, to groom oneself with elaborate care

Question 29

Quaff

Answer 29

To drink deeply

Question 30

Redoubtable

Answer 30

Awe-inspiring, worthy of honor

Question 31

Sanction

Answer 31

Authoritative permission or approval, a penalty intended to enforce compliance, to give permission or authority to

Question 32

Squalid

Answer 32

Sordid, wretched and dirty as from neglect

Question 33

Supplant

Answer 33

To take the place of, supersede

Question 34

Torpid (torpor)

Answer 34

Lethargic

Question 35

Urbane

Answer 35

Sophisticated

Question 36

Vilify

Answer 36

To defame, to characterize harshly