Sophie's Choice

Question 1

alacrity

Answer 1

brisk and cheerful; eagerness

Question 2

solvency

Answer 2

ability to meet financial obligations

Question 3

emolument

Answer 3

salary for work done; compensation

Question 4

eclat

Answer 4

great brilliance, as of performance or success

Question 5

snootful

Answer 5

enough alcohol to make one drunk

Question 6

forlorn

Answer 6

sad and lonely

Question 7

vissicitude

Answer 7

change in circumstance or fortune, typically unwelcomed or unpleasant

Question 8

antipodean

Answer 8

opposite

Question 9

indubitably

Answer 9

undoubtedly; unquestionably

Question 10

sophomoric

Answer 10

immature and overconfident

Question 11

sardonic

Answer 11

grimly or scornful; bitterly sarcastic

Question 12

provincial

Answer 12

narrow-minded

Question 13

gelid

Answer 13

extremely cold

Question 14

hangdog

Answer 14

sad, downcast

Question 15

mendacious

Answer 15

lying, false

Question 16

droll

Answer 16

amusing in and odd way

Question 17

choleric

Answer 17

easily made angry, bad tempered

Question 18

renascent

Answer 18

reborn; coming into being again

Question 19

incarnadine

Answer 19

blood red

Question 20

concupiscence

Answer 20

inclination to sin

Question 21

languidly

Answer 21

lacking energy or vitality; weakly

Question 22

felicitous

Answer 22

happy

Question 23

excrescence

Answer 23

abnormal growth; unattractive or superfluous addition

Question 24

lubricious

Answer 24

smooth, slippery; lecherous

Question 25

lacuna

Answer 25

gap; missing part

Question 26

adamantine

Answer 26

rigidly firm; unyielding

Question 27

insupportable

Answer 27

more than can be endured; impossible to justify

Question 28

languor

Answer 28

weak or lifeless feeling

Question 29

drubbing

Answer 29

beating, thrashing

Question 30

chimera

Answer 30

illusion, foolish fantasy

Question 31

meltingly

Answer 31

tender, delicate

Question 32

callow

Answer 32

young and inexperienced

Question 33

thronging

Answer 33

to crowd

Question 34

flatulant

Answer 34

gassy; empty, vain

Question 35

diffident

Answer 35

lacking self-confidence

Question 36

solicitous

Answer 36

showing interest or concern; eager to do something

Question 37

orotund

Answer 37

full, rich and clear (of voice); pompous, pretentious (writing)

Question 38

consummately

Answer 38

completely, utterly

Question 39

unctuous

Answer 39

exaggerated, insincerely polite

Question 40

inanition

Answer 40

exhaustion by lack of food; lack of mental or spiritual vigor and enthusiasm

Question 41

tableau

Answer 41

group of models or motionless figures representing a scene from a story or from history

Question 42

sulky

Answer 42

morose, bad-tempered; resentful

Question 43

ignominious

Answer 43

shame, disgrace

Question 44

augury

Answer 44

omen, portent;

Question 45

baroque

Answer 45

extravagant, grotesque, flamboyant

Question 46

peradventure

Answer 46

doubt; chance

Question 47

propinquity

Answer 47

kinship; proximity

Question 48

halcyon

Answer 48

happy, great success; calm, peaceful; affluent, prosperous

Question 49

scabrous

Answer 49

difficult, knotty; rough to the touch; salacious

Question 50

laconic

Answer 50

concise

Question 51

sultry

Answer 51

hot, humid; exciting strong sexual desire

Question 52

Insipid

Answer 52

Dull, uninteresting; tasteless (food)

Question 53

Adumbrated

Answer 53

Overshadow, obscure; to intimate

Question 54

Vapid

Answer 54

Lacking flavor, interest; dull, flat

Question 55

Indite

Answer 55

Put down in writing; make up, compose

Question 56

Mordant

Answer 56

Biting and caustic in thought or manner; burning, pungent

Question 57

Pellucid

Answer 57

Easy to understand; admitting light without distortion (clear);

Question 58

Doleful

Answer 58

Grief, cheerless, sad; causing grief

Question 59

Lambert

Answer 59

Softly bright; brilliance (of expression); flickering

Question 60

Oleaginous

Answer 60

Oily; marked by an offensively ingratiating manner or quality

Question 61

Fatuity

Answer 61

Something foolish or stupid

Question 62

Apostrophe

Answer 62

the addressing of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically

Question 63

Venison

Answer 63

Blessing, benediction

Question 64

desuetude

Answer 64

disuse

Question 65

infrangible

Answer 65

Not to be broken apart; not to be violated

Question 66

Solipsism

Answer 66

Extreme egocentrism

Question 67

Propinquity

Answer 67

Kinship; proximity

Question 68

Preempt

Answer 68

Take for oneself; take precedence over; preclude

Question 69

Vagrant

Answer 69

Wandering about; having a fleeting, wayward, or inconstant quality

Question 70

Hagridden

Answer 70

Tormented, harassed

Question 71

Weak

Answer 71

a sound, healthy, or prosperous state

Question 72

Hidebound

Answer 72

Inflexible character;

Question 73

Aver

Answer 73

Declare positively

Question 74

Sententious

Answer 74

terse, aphoristic, or moralistic in expression

Question 75

Astigmatic

Answer 75

showing incapacity for observation or discrimination

Question 76

Surfeit

Answer 76

EXCESS 2 : an intemperate or immoderate indulgence in something (such as food or drink) 3 : disgust caused by excess