Summit 4

Question 1

abet

Answer 1

to encourage, assist, aid, support

Question 2

aver

Answer 2

to affirm, declare confidently

Question 3

blatant

Answer 3

noisy in a coarse, offensive way

obvious/conspicuous

especially in an unfavourable sense

Question 4

broach

Answer 4

to bring up or begin to talk about a subject

to announce/introduce

to break the surface of water

Question 5

buttress

Answer 5

to support, prop up, strengthen

Question 6

carousal

Answer 6

noisy revelry or merrymaking

Question 7

collate

Answer 7

to compare critically in order to note differences, similarities

to arrange in order for specific purposes

Question 8

connoisseur

Answer 8

an expert, one who is well qualified to pass critical judgements

Question 9

disconsolate

Answer 9

deeply unhappy or dejected

without hope

beyond consolation

Question 10

encumber

Answer 10

to weigh down or burden

to fill up/block up/hinder

Question 11

foment

Answer 11

to promote trouble or rebellion

to apply warm liquids to

Question 12

grisly

Answer 12

frightful, horrible, ghastly

Question 13

herculean

Answer 13

characterised by great strength

very hard to do in the sense of requiring unusual strength

Question 14

impassive

Answer 14

showing no feeling or emotion

inanimate

motionless

Question 15

inauspicious

Answer 15

unfavourable, unlucky, suggesting bad luck for the future

Question 16

incontrovertible

Answer 16

unquestionable, beyond dispute

Question 17

nonplussed

Answer 17

puzzled, not knowing what to do, at a loss

Question 18

opportune

Answer 18

suitable/convenient for a particular purpose

occurring at an appropriate time

Question 19

prolific

Answer 19

abundantly productive, profuse

Question 20

rejoinder

Answer 20

a reply to a reply

Question 21

amenable

Answer 21

willing to follow advice/authority

tractable

submissive

responsive

Question 22

berate

Answer 22

to scold sharply

Question 23

carnage

Answer 23

large scale slaughter or loss of life

Question 24

credulous

Answer 24

too ready to believe, easily deceived

Question 25

expatiate

Answer 25

to expand on, write or talk at length or in detail to move about freely

Question 26

extraneuous

Answer 26

coming from the outside, foreign present but not essential irrelevant

Question 27

inception

Answer 27

the beginning, start, earliest stage of some process

Question 28

infirmity

Answer 28

a weakness or ailmeny

Question 29

jejune

Answer 29

lacking in nutritie value, lacking in interest or substance

Question 30

obdurate

Answer 30

stubborn, unyielding

Question 31

potpourri

Answer 31

a collection of diverse or miscellaneous items a general mixture

Question 32

precocious

Answer 32

showing unusually early development

Question 33

sententious

Answer 33

self-righteous characterised by moralising saying much in few words

Question 34

supplicate

Answer 34

to beg earnestly and humbly

Question 35

surfeit

Answer 35

an excess or overindulgence

Question 36

tortuous

Answer 36

winding, twisted, crooked, highly involved, complex, devious

Question 37

turgid

Answer 37

swollen, bloated, filled to excess, overdecorated or excessive in language

Question 38

adamant

Answer 38

firm in purpose or opinion, unyielding, obdurate, implacable, inflexible

Question 39

brouhaha

Answer 39

a confused hodgepodge of sounds, hubbb uproar or commotion that goes far beyond what is justified

Question 40

bulwark

Answer 40

a strong defense or protection a solid wall like structure for defense to provide such defense or protection

Question 41

choleric

Answer 41

easily made angry, bad-tempered

Question 42

cloy

Answer 42

to spoil or destroy an appetite by too much indulgence to glut, satiate, surfeit

Question 43

curtail

Answer 43

to cut short, bring to a halt or end sooner than expected to reduce

Question 44

deference

Answer 44

courteous yielding to the wishe and ideas of another person great respec marked by submission, as to a superior

Question 45

demeanor

Answer 45

the way a person behaves overall impression made by manner

Question 46

impromptu

Answer 46

without preparation, offhand, suddenly or hastily done

Question 47

mawkish

Answer 47

excessively or objectionably sentimental having a mildly sickening flavour

Question 48

mollify

Answer 48

to soften, make gentle, pacify, to calm assauge, appease, placate, to reduce in intensity

Question 49

onus

Answer 49

something that is heavy or burden a stigma blame

Question 50

presentiment

Answer 50

a vague sense of approaching misfortune

Question 51

profligate

Answer 51

given over to dissipation and self-indulgence immoral recklessly extravagant

Question 52

remit

Answer 52

to send or hand in (as money) to cancel to forgive, pardon to lessen, diminish to put off, postpone, defer

Question 53

requisite

Answer 53

neede, necessary, regarded as essential

Question 54

sartorial

Answer 54

of or pertaining to a tailor or his work having to do with clothes and dress

Question 55

thwart

Answer 55

to oppose successfully to prevent/frustrate