Week 7 & 6

Question 0

Superfluous

Answer 0

Extra; unnecessary

Question 1

Gratuitous

Answer 1

Given freely; unearned; unwarranted

Question 2

Alleviate

Answer 2

To ease a pain or burden

Question 3

Asylum

Answer 3

A place of retreat or security

Question 4

Auspicious

Answer 4

Favorable; promising

Question 5

Benevolent

Answer 5

Well-meaning; generous

Question 6

Benign

Answer 6

Kind and gentle

Question 7

Mollify

Answer 7

To calm or soothe

Question 8

Reclamation

Answer 8

The act of making some thing useful again

Question 9

Sanction

Answer 9

To give official authorization or approval

Question 10

Homograph

Answer 10

Words we write identically but which have different meanings

Question 11

Homonyms

Answer 11

Words that are identical with each other in pronunciation and spelling, but different in meaning

Question 12

Homophones

Answer 12

Words that are identical in pronunciation, but different in meaning

Question 13

Homeoteleuton

Answer 13

Words with the same ending

Question 14

Hyperbaton

Answer 14

Figures of speech that consist of an alteration of the logical order of the words in a sentence

Question 15

Week 6

Florid

Answer 15

Describing flowery or elaborate speech

Question 16

Week 6

Opulent

Answer 16

Exhibiting a display of great wealth

Question 17

Week 6

Ornate

Answer 17

Elaborately decorated

Question 18

Week 6

Ostentatious

Answer 18

Describing a showy or pretentious display

Question 19

Week 6

Poignant

Answer 19

Profoundly moving; touching

Question 20

Week 6

Ebullience

Answer 20

Intense enthusiasm

Question 21

Week 6

Effusive

Answer 21

Emotionally unrestrained; gushy

Question 22

Week 6

Egregious

Answer 22

Conspicuously bad or offensive

Easily seen

Question 23

Week 6

Flagrant

Answer 23

Extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable

Question 24

Week 6 | Frenetic

Answer 24

Wildly excited or active

Question 25

Week 6 | Enallage

Answer 25

Wording ignoring grammatical rules or conventions

Question 26

Week 6 | Enjambment

Answer 26

Incomplete syntax at the end of lines in poetry

Question 27

Week 6 | Enthymeme

Answer 27

An informal syllogism

Question 28

Week 6 | Epistrophe

Answer 28

Repetition of the same word or group of words at the end of successive clauses

Question 29

Week 6 | Epizeuxis

Answer 29

Repetition of a single word, with no other words in between

Question 30

Week 6 | Euphony

Answer 30

Opposite of cacophony(pleasant sounding)