vocab

Question 1

propriety

Answer 1

Conforming to the normal standards of current society, appropriate

Question 2

Credence

Answer 2

Acceptance of something as true

Question 3

Stymied

Answer 3

To hinder or block

Question 4

Impropriety

Answer 4

Inappropriate, unseemly, improper

Question 5

Adjudicate

Answer 5

To make a decision judicially

Question 6

Belie

Answer 6

Fail to give a true notion or impression of something

Question 7

Parochial

Answer 7

Narrow in viewpoint or scope

Question 8

Stultify

Answer 8

Cause to lose enthusiasm and initiative

Question 9

Forbear

Answer 9

To refrain from, withhold

Question 10

Impetus

Answer 10

Inciting action or cause

Question 11

Praxes

Answer 11

A habit or custom, something that is done in practice

Question 12

Parity

Answer 12

Equality between parts

Question 13

Ostensibly

Answer 13

Seeming or appearing to be

Question 14

Eschew

Answer 14

Deliberately avoid using; abstain from

Question 15

Circumvent

Answer 15

To go around or to avoid

Question 16

Proscribe

Answer 16

To prohibit or to denounce as harmful and dangerous

Question 17

Tacit

Answer 17

Understood without being explicit

Question 18

Partisan

Answer 18

Supporter of a particular ideology, topically to the point of bias and prejudice

Question 19

Dearth

Answer 19

A scarcity or lack of something

Question 20

Obdurate

Answer 20

Unable to be persuaded, stubborn

Question 21

Derision

Answer 21

Insults, mockery, taunts

Question 22

Jurisprudence

Answer 22

Decisions made by courts, or a system or group of laws

Question 23

Exhort

Answer 23

To urge, advise or warn

Question 24

Mete

Answer 24

To distribute or give

Question 25

Surmise

Answer 25

To suppose that something is true without having evidence to confirm it

Question 26

Preclude

Answer 26

To make impossible; to exclude from consideration

Question 27

Impugn

Answer 27

To dispute the truth of

Question 28

Unequivocal

Answer 28

Unambiguous and clear of meaning, absolute

Question 29

Abate

Answer 29

To lessen to reduce or to become smaller

Question 30

Inexorable

Answer 30

Unyielding, unchangeable