Unit 8

Question 0

To turn bottom side up, upset

Answer 0

Capsize

Question 1

Not usual, not typical, strange

Answer 1

Abnormal

Question 2

A large scale disaster, misfortune, or failure

Answer 2

Catastrophe

Question 3

To become or make less

Answer 3

Decrease

Question 4

A lessening

Answer 4

Decrease

Question 5

Inclined to argue or debate; provoking debate

Answer 5

Disputatious

Question 6

To drive or throw out, evict

Answer 6

Eject

Question 7

To grow, thrive, be prosperous; to wave in the air

Answer 7

Flourish

Question 8

A dramatic gesture; a fanfare of horns

Answer 8

Flourish

Question 9

A reason for doing something; something that stimulates action

Answer 9

Incentive

Question 10

Disobedient, rebellious

Answer 10

Insubordinate

Question 11

Easily read

Answer 11

Legible

Question 12

The central point or heart of a matter; a knob

Answer 12

Nub

Question 13

A violent attack; a sudden rush of something

Answer 13

Onslaught

Question 14

To establish by law; to order or command; to appoint S a priest or minister; to destine

Answer 14

Ordain

Question 15

To get ahead of, do better than, exceed

Answer 15

Outstrip

Question 16

To spread throughout

Answer 16

Pervade

Question 17

Cautious, careful, showing book sense

Answer 17

Prudent

Question 18

To put out, extinguish, end

Answer 18

Quench

Question 19

A small part remaining behind

Answer 19

Remnant

Question 20

Happening or existing at the same time

Answer 20

Simultaneous

Question 21

To turn aside sharply

Answer 21

Swerve

Question 22

A sharp or sudden turn

Answer 22

Swerve

Question 23

S for abnormal

Answer 23

Freakish, unnatural, irregular, anomalous

Question 24

S for capsize

Answer 24

Overturn, upend, tip over

Question 25

S for catastrophe

Answer 25

Calamity, tragedy, cataclysm

Question 26

S for decrease

Answer 26

Lessen, reduce, dwindle, diminish

Question 27

S for disputatious

Answer 27

Argumentative, quarrelsome, contentious

Question 28

S for eject

Answer 28

Oust, expel, kick out

Question 29

S for flourish

Answer 29

Prosper, burgeon, increase

Question 30

S for incentive

Answer 30

Stimulus, spur, motive, inducement

Question 31

S for insubordinate

Answer 31

Defiant, unruly, mutinous

Question 32

S for legible

Answer 32

Readable, clear, decipherable

Question 33

S for nub

Answer 33

Core, kernel, nucleus, crux

Question 34

S for onslaught

Answer 34

Assault, charge, foray, onset

Question 35

S for ordain

Answer 35

Anoint, consecrate, enact, decree

Question 36

S for outstrip

Answer 36

Outdo, outperform, outdistance, surpass

Question 37

S for pervade

Answer 37

Saturate, permeate, diffuse, imbue

Question 38

S for prudent

Answer 38

Wary, sensible, judicious

Question 39

S for quench

Answer 39

Douse, stifle, slake

Question 40

S for remnant

Answer 40

Remainder, residue, leftover, fragment

Question 41

S for simultaneous

Answer 41

Occurring at the same time, concurrent

Question 42

S for swerve

Answer 42

Veer, distress, sheer off

Question 43

A for abnormal

Answer 43

Normal, usual, regular, typical

Question 44

A for capsize

Answer 44

Remain upright

Question 45

A for catastrophe

Answer 45

Triumph, victory, success

Question 46

A for decrease

Answer 46

Increase, grow, develop, wax

Question 47

A for disputatious

Answer 47

Non-argumentative, peaceable, pacific

Question 48

A for eject

Answer 48

Admit, let it, insert

Question 49

A for flourish

Answer 49

Wither, die, fade, shrivel up

Question 50

A for incentive

Answer 50

curb, check, restraint, hindrance

Question 51

A for insubordinate

Answer 51

Obedient, submissive, docile, tractable

Question 52

A for legible

Answer 52

Unreadable, indecipherable

Question 53

A for nub

Answer 53

Fringe, periphery, edge

Question 54

A for ordain

Answer 54

Forbid, veto, cancel

Question 55

A for outstrips

Answer 55

Trail, lag behind

Question 56

A for prudent

Answer 56

Foolish, unwise, rash, reckless

Question 57

A for quench

Answer 57

Ignite, kindle

Question 58

A for simultaneous

Answer 58

Occurring at different times