Set 5

Question 1

Maladroit

Answer 1

unskillful, awkward, clumsy

Question 2

Malaise

Answer 2

weakness, feebleness

Question 3

Malediction

Answer 3

curse, damnation, imprecation

Question 4

Malevolent

Answer 4

malicious, animosity, hostility

Question 5

Malinger

Answer 5

shirk, procrastinate

Question 6

Mandate

Answer 6

fiat, decree, command, dictate

Question 7

Manifest

Answer 7

evident, self-evident, display, demonstrate

Question 8

Marginal

Answer 8

peripheral, expendable, unessential

Question 9

Maudlin

Answer 9

sentimental, mawkish, treacle

Question 10

Maverick

Answer 10

nonconformist, protestor

Question 11

Maxim

Answer 11

proverb, aphorism, adage

Question 12

Mediate

Answer 12

negotiate, arbitrate, to settle dispute

Question 13

Mellifluous

Answer 13

harmonious, melodic

Question 14

Melodramatic

Answer 14

histrionics, treacly, bathetic, overly sentimental, maudlin

Question 15

Mendacious

Answer 15

false, specious, spurious

Question 16

Mercurial

Answer 16

animated, enthusiastic, ebullient

Question 17

Meretricious

Answer 17

gaudy, garish, tawdry, vulgar, in poor taste

Question 18

Meteoric

Answer 18

short-lived, transitory, transient, ephemeral

Question 19

Machination

Answer 19

plotting, scheming

Question 20

Malleable

Answer 20

flexible, pliant, adaptable

Question 21

Mar

Answer 21

impair, spoil, deface

Question 22

Martinet

Answer 22

strict, severe disciplinarian

Question 23

Meddle

Answer 23

interfere, intrude

Question 24

Mendicant

Answer 24

beggar, scrounger, vagabond

Question 25

Jaded

Answer 25

no longer interested in something due to excess, satiated, glutted

Question 26

Jejune

Answer 26

insipid, vapid, vacuous, boring, banal

Question 27

Jettison

Answer 27

expulsion, ejection, discharge

Question 28

Judicious

Answer 28

discreet, politic, prudent

Question 29

Juxtapose

Answer 29

appose, place side by side in comparison (often of opposites)

Question 30

Kaleidoscopic

Answer 30

motley, variegated

Question 31

Kudos

Answer 31

obsequious flattery

Question 32

Lachrymose

Answer 32

tearful, mournful, dolorous

Question 33

Laconic

Answer 33

of few words, concise, succinct, terse

Question 34

Lampoon

Answer 34

satire, parody, mockery

Question 35

Lassitude

Answer 35

weakness, lack of energy

Question 36

Lavish

Answer 36

generous, liberal, big hearted

Question 37

Lax

Answer 37

neglectful, remiss, negligent

Question 38

Legerdemain

Answer 38

magic, trickery

Question 39

Lethargic

Answer 39

phlegmatic, lassitude, torpid, supine

Question 40

Liable

Answer 40

accountable for

Question 41

Libertine

Answer 41

profligate, wanton, debaucher

Question 42

Limpid

Answer 42

clear, transparent, perspicuous, lucid

Question 43

Litigious

Answer 43

argumentative, disputable, polemical

Question 44

Loquacious

Answer 44

garrulous, voluble, talkative

Question 45

Jocose

Answer 45

jesting, joking, teasing

Question 46

Knave

Answer 46

scoundrel, brute

Question 47

Lament

Answer 47

mourn, grieve, commiserate

Question 48

Latent

Answer 48

dormant, undeveloped, quiescent

Question 49

Laud

Answer 49

praise highly

Question 50

Legion

Answer 50

great in number

Question 51

Libel

Answer 51

defamation, denigration, vilification, slander

Question 52

Licentious

Answer 52

immoral, promiscuous

Question 53

Lilliputian

Answer 53

small person

Question 54

Incite

Answer 54

instigate, foment, provoke

Question 55

Incognito

Answer 55

secretive, clandestine, surreptitious

Question 56

Incongruous

Answer 56

inapt, inappropriate

Question 57

Inconsequential

Answer 57

without consequence, trivial, doesn't matter

Question 58

Indignant

Answer 58

irate, incensed, angry

Question 59

Indigence

Answer 59

poverty, impecunious, insolvency, bankruptcy

Question 60

Indolent

Answer 60

lazy, procrastinating, dilatory, lethargic

Question 61

Indulgent

Answer 61

permissive, lenient, lax

Question 62

Infelicity

Answer 62

unhappiness, sadness, woe

Question 63

Inimical

Answer 63

harmful, deleterious, pernicious

Question 64

Iniquitous

Answer 64

wicked, unprincipled, opprobrious

Question 65

Innocuous

Answer 65

harmless, innocent, inoffensive

Question 66

Insatiable

Answer 66

unquenchable, avaricious, rapacious

Question 67

Inscrutable

Answer 67

Incomprehensible, mysterious

Question 68

Insolent

Answer 68

arrogant, supercilious

Question 69

Intemperance

Answer 69

alcoholism, self-gratificaiton, excess

Question 70

Interloper

Answer 70

intruder, meddler, encroacher

Question 71

Interlocutor

Answer 71

announcer, emcee, interrogator

Question 72

Interminable

Answer 72

never-ending, unceasing, unremitting

Question 73

Intuitive

Answer 73

knowing something by instinct, perceptive, insightful

Question 74

Irreproachable

Answer 74

blameless, faultless, inculpable, impeccable

Question 75

Itinerant

Answer 75

unsettled, wanderer, nomadic

Question 76

Inexorable

Answer 76

inevitable, fated, unavoidable

Question 77

Insurgent

Answer 77

rebel, revolutionary

Question 78

Intrepid

Answer 78

courageous, fearless