Week1

Question 1

Inchoate

Answer 1

Incipient, still developing or incomplete

Imperfectly formed, incoherent or lacking order

Question 2

Obdurate

Answer 2

Unyielding to persuasion; Resistant to appeals or softening influences
Persistent in wrongdoing or impenitent; hardened against emotions

Question 3

Amalgamate

Answer 3

To mix, merge, or combine into a whole

Question 4

Effrontery

Answer 4

Insolence, boldness, or presumption

Question 5

Rarefy

Answer 5

To make or become thin, less compact, or less dense

To purify, refine, or make more spiritual

Question 6

Diatribe

Answer 6

Bitter, abusive criticism or denunciation

Question 7

Precipitate

Answer 7

To throw or fall down headlong
To bring or cause to happen, especially abruptly or prematurely
To cause (a substance) to separate from solution; To condense of cause to condense and fall from the sky as snow, rain etc.
Speeding headlong, rapidly, or dangerously; Proceeding with undue haste and without necessary forethought
Occurring abruptly or unexpectedly
Steep or rushing steeply downward

Question 8

Disabuse

Answer 8

To free someone from misconception or deception

Question 9

Aver

Answer 9

To assert or affirm positively

To formally assert or prove in pleading a case or cause

Question 10

Bolster

Answer 10

To support, upload, hearten or boost

Question 11

Undermine

Answer 11

To weaken by washing away the support or foundation underneath
To weaken, injure, or ruin by degrees or a little at the time; to sap
To subvert secretly or insidiously
To dig a mine or tunnel underneath

Question 12

Deliberate

Answer 12

To think carefully or consider
Slowly, unhurriedly decided
Done intentionally or with awareness of the consequences

Question 13

Assuage

Answer 13

To make less intense or severe; to ease
To satisfy, appease, or quench
To pacify, sooth, or quiet

Question 14

Laconic

Answer 14

Concise, terse, or extremely sparing with words

Question 15

Lucid

Answer 15

Intelligible or readily understandable; sane or rational

Translucent or clear; bright or luminous

Question 16

Enervate

Answer 16

To weaken or sap the strength, vigor, or vitality of

Question 17

Morose

Answer 17

Sullen, gloomy, or melancholy

Question 18

Eulogy

Answer 18

A praising speech or tribute, especially honoring someone who has died
High praise

Question 19

Placate

Answer 19

To soothe the anger of, mollify, or appease

Question 20

Antagonism

Answer 20

Hostility, opposition, or active resistance

Question 21

Skeptical

Answer 21

Showing, expressing, or given to doubt or questioning

Question 22

Intrepid

Answer 22

Resolutely fearless or undaunted

Question 23

Mollify

Answer 23

To soothe or calm the temper or feelings

To soften or make less rigid; to tempt to lessen the intensity of

Question 24

Anomalous

Answer 24

Deviating from the norm or expectations; irregular

Uncertain or incongruous in nature

Question 25

Mundane

Answer 25

Ordinary, practical, commonplace, banal or uninteresting

Of or related to this world, as opposed to the heavens

Question 26

Quotidian

Answer 26

Everyday, commonplace or ordinary

Question 27

Burgeon

Answer 27

To produce or send out new growth; to sprout or bloom

To grow, expand, or develop quickly and often profusely

Question 28

Sap

Answer 28

The circulatory fluid of a plant, an essential bodily fluid
Health, vitality, or energy
A gullible person or fool, or dupe

Question 29

Occult

Answer 29

Secret or withheld from uninitiated
Mysterious, inscrutable, difficult or impossible to comprehend
Of, related to, or concerned with magic or the supernatural

Question 30

Gainsay

Answer 30

To deny or prove false; To oppose or speak out against

Question 31

Pith

Answer 31

The core, essence, or substance of a matter

Question 32

Gist

Answer 32

The central point or essence; the heart of the matter

The founds of a legal action

Question 33

Hackneyed

Answer 33

unoriginal, so commonplace as to be state; trite or banal

Question 34

Corroborate

Answer 34

To support with evidence, make more certain, or confirm

Question 35

Plasticity

Answer 35

Capacity to be molded or made to assume or hold a shape

Question 36

Ebullience

Answer 36

Liveliness or exuberance, especially in manner or expression

Question 37

Plethora

Answer 37

Excess, profusion, or overabundance

Question 38

Artless

Answer 38

Uncultured or ignorant, lacking in knowledge
Poorly or cruelly made
Without artificiality; natural, sincere

Question 39

Artifice

Answer 39

A crafty, cunning trick or stratagem
Deception or false behavior
Cleverness, skill, or ingenuity

Question 40

Din

Answer 40

A loud, clamorous noise

Question 41

Precarious

Answer 41

Lacking stability, dangerously uncertain, or subject to unknown circumstances
Based on uncertain or dubious premises

Question 42

Default

Answer 42

Failure to meet an obligation, especially a financial obligation; failure to make a court appearance; failure to participate in a contest

Question 43

Tortuous

Answer 43

Winding, containing numerous twists, turns, or bends
Cooked, tricky, or devious
Highly involved, circuitous, or complex

Question 44

Profuse

Answer 44

Present or available in great amount; plentiful, bountiful, or copious
Pouring forth freely or abundantly; extravagant

Question 45

Propitiate

Answer 45

To gain or regain the favor of; appease or conciliate

Question 46

Zenith

Answer 46

The highest point, culmination

Question 47

Desiccate

Answer 47

To dry out completely

To preserve food by drying

Question 48

Veneration

Answer 48

The act of regarding or treating with profound respect, awe, or admiration

Question 49

Tenuous

Answer 49

To dense; thin or dulled in consistency
Slender
Lacking substance or strength; flimsy; shaky