Vocabulary

Question 1

incendiary

Answer 1

Causing or adapted to cause combustion; used in starting a fire or conflagration; igniting; inflammatory: as, incendiary materials; an incendiary match or bomb.

Question 2

panegyric

Answer 2

a formal expression of praise

Question 3

innocuous

Answer 3

not harmful

Question 4

reproach

Answer 4

to express criticism towards

Question 5

accolade

Answer 5

an award or praise granted as a special honor

Question 6

adulation

Answer 6

Servile flattery; excessive or unmerited praise; exaggerated compliment.

Question 7

perspicacious

Answer 7

acutely insightful and wise

Question 8

ambivalent

Answer 8

mixed or conflicting emotions about something

Question 9

undue

Answer 9

not due; not yet owing

Question 10

considerable

Answer 10

large enough or important enough to get special notice

Question 11

prolific

Answer 11

producing many things

Question 12

preeminent

Answer 12

very distinguished in some way; surpassing

Question 13

futile

Answer 13

without the possibility of success

Question 14

provisional

Answer 14

under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon

Question 15

obscured

Answer 15

hidden; make something unclear

Question 16

boorishness

Answer 16

behavior that is rude; insensitive

Question 17

austerity

Answer 17

the trait of great self-denial

Question 18

hackneyed

Answer 18

lacking significance through having been overused