Set 2

Question 1

Ingenuous

Answer 1

Showing innocence or childlike simplicity

Question 2

Abate

Answer 2

To reduce in amount, degree or severity

Question 3

Inimical

Answer 3

Hostile, unfriendly

Question 4

Innocuous

Answer 4

Harmless

Question 5

Disparate

Answer 5

Fundamentally different; entirely unlike

Question 6

Obsequious

Answer 6

Overly submissive and eager to please

Question 7

Obviate

Answer 7

To prevent, to make unnecessary

Question 8

Propitiate

Answer 8

To conciliate; to appease

Question 9

Quiescent

Answer 9

Motionless

Question 10

Occlude

Answer 10

To stop up; to prevent the passage of

Question 11

Onerous

Answer 11

Troublesome and oppressive; burdensome

Question 12

Opprobrium

Answer 12

Public disgrace

Question 13

Metaphor

Answer 13

A figure of speech comparing two different things; a symbol

Question 14

Fervid

Answer 14

Intensely emotional; feverish

Question 15

Ostentation

Answer 15

Excessive showiness

Question 16

Paragon

Answer 16

Model of excellence or perfection

Question 17

Rarefy

Answer 17

To make thinner or sparser

Question 18

Reticent

Answer 18

Silent, reserved

Question 19

Satiate

Answer 19

To satisfy fully or overindulge

Question 20

Rhetoric

Answer 20

Effective writing or speaking

Question 21

Desiccate

Answer 21

To dry out thoroughly

Question 22

Insipid

Answer 22

Lacking interest or flavor

Question 23

Soporific

Answer 23

Causing sleep or lethargy

Question 24

Specious

Answer 24

Deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious; pleasing but deceptive

Question 25

Stolid

Answer 25

Unemotional; lacking sensitivity

Question 26

Sublime

Answer 26

Lofty or grand

Question 27

Tacit

Answer 27

Done without using words

Question 28

Pedant

Answer 28

Someone who shows off learning

Question 29

Perfidious

Answer 29

Willing to betray one's trust

Question 30

Precipitate

Answer 30

To throw violently or bring about abruptly; lacking deliberation

Question 31

Torpor

Answer 31

Extreme mental and physical sluggishness

Question 32

Dearth

Answer 32

A lack or absence of

Question 33

Enervated

Answer 33

Drained of energy

Question 34

Irascible

Answer 34

Quick to anger

Question 35

Laconic

Answer 35

Tight-lipped

Question 36

Lugubrious

Answer 36

Overly gloomy or sad

Question 37

Autodidactic

Answer 37

Learns on her own and teaches herself

Question 38

Surfeit

Answer 38

An excessive amount of something; to cause the desire of no more of something because of having consumed or done it to excess

Question 39

Denigrating

Answer 39

Speaking damagingly or being derogatory

Question 40

Malleable

Answer 40

Capable of being shaped

Question 41

Enumerate

Answer 41

To count, list or itemize

Question 42

Castigate

Answer 42

To punish or criticize harshly

Question 43

Caustic

Answer 43

Biting in wit

Question 44

Amalgamate

Answer 44

To combine, to mix together

Question 45

Disabuse

Answer 45

To set right; to free from error

Question 46

Bombastic

Answer 46

Pompous in speech and manner

Question 47

Prevaricate

Answer 47

To lie or deviate from the truth

Question 48

Condone

Answer 48

To overlook, pardon or disregard

Question 49

Anachronism

Answer 49

Something out of place in time

Question 50

Irascible

Answer 50

Easily made angry