Word List 29

Question 1

transgression

Answer 1

n. violation of a law; sin

Question 2

transient

Answer 2

adj. fleeting; quickly passing away; staying for a short time

Question 3

transmute

Answer 3

v. change; convert to something different

Question 4

travail

Answer 4

n. painful labor

Question 5

travesty

Answer 5

n. comical parody

Question 6

treatise

Answer 6

n. article treating a subject systematically and thoroughly

Question 7

trenchant

Answer 7

adj. cutting; keen

Question 8

trepidation

Answer 8

n. fear; trembling agitation

Question 9

tribunal

Answer 9

n. court of justice

Question 10

tribute

Answer 10

n. tax levied by a ruler; mark of respect

Question 11

trite

Answer 11

adj. hackneyed; commonplace

Question 12

troth

Answer 12

n. pledge of good faith especially in betrothal

Question 13

truculent

Answer 13

adj. aggressive; savage

Question 14

truism

Answer 14

n. self-evident truth

Question 15

trumpery

Answer 15

n. objects that are showy, valueless, deceptive

Question 16

tumbrel

Answer 16

n. a farm tipcart

Question 17

tumid

Answer 17

adj. swollen; pompous; bombastic

Question 18

turbid

Answer 18

adj. muddy; having the sediment disturbed

Question 19

turgid

Answer 19

adj. swollen; distended

Question 20

turnkey

Answer 20

n. jailer

Question 21

turpitude

Answer 21

n. depravity

Question 22

tyro

Answer 22

n. beginner; novice

Question 23

ubiquitous

Answer 23

adj. being everywhere; omnipresent

Question 24

umbrage

Answer 24

n. resentment; anger; sense of injury or insult

Question 25

unanimity

Answer 25

n. complete agreement

Question 26

unassuaged

Answer 26

adj. unsatisfied; not soothed

Question 27

unassuming

Answer 27

adj. modest

Question 28

unbridled

Answer 28

adj. violent

Question 29

unconscionable

Answer 29

adj. excessive

Question 30

uncouth

Answer 30

adj. outlandish; clumsy; boorish

Question 31

unction

Answer 31

n. the act of anointing with oil

Question 32

unctuous

Answer 32

adj. oily; bland; insincerely suave

Question 33

undulate

Answer 33

v. move with a wavelike motion

Question 34

unequivocal

Answer 34

adj. plain; obvious

Question 35

unerringly

Answer 35

adj. infallibly; surely

Question 36

ungainly

Answer 36

adj. awkward

Question 37

unguent

Answer 37

n. ointment

Question 38

unimpeachable

Answer 38

adj. blameless and exemplary

Question 39

uninhibited

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adj. unrepressed

Question 40

unmitigated

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adj. harsh; severe; not lightened

Question 41

unseemly

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adj. unbecoming; indecent

Question 42

unsullied

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ajd. untarnished

Question 43

untenable

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adj. unsupportable

Question 44

unwitting

Answer 44

adj. unintentional; not knowing

Question 45

unwonted

Answer 45

adj. unaccustomed

Question 46

upbraid

Answer 46

v. scold; reproach

Question 47

upshot

Answer 47

n. outcome

Question 48

urbane

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adj. suave; refined; elegant

Question 49

usury

Answer 49

n. lending money at illegal rates of interest

Question 50

uxorious

Answer 50

adj. excessively devoted to one’s wife

Question 51

vacillation

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n. fluctuation; wavering

Question 52

vacuous

Answer 52

adj. empty; inane

Question 53

vagary

Answer 53

n. caprice; whim

Question 54

vainglorious

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adj. boastful; excessively conceited

Question 55

vanguard

Answer 55

n. forerunners; advance forces

Question 56

vapid

Answer 56

adj. dull; lifeless

Question 57

variegated

Answer 57

adj. many-colored

Question 58

vaunted

Answer 58

adj. boasted; bragged; highly publicized