Word Smart 7

Question 1

Bedizen (bi DY zun)

Answer 1

v. to adorn, especially in a cheap, showy manner; festoon, caparison

Question 2

Belie (bih LYE)

Answer 2

v. to give a false impression of, to misrepresent

Question 3

Bellicose (BEL i kohs)

Answer 3

adj. belligerent, pugnacious, warlike

Question 4

belliger

Answer 4

warlike

Question 5

Benign (buh NYN)

Answer 5

adj. favorable, harmless

Question 6

Bent (bent)

Answer 6

n. leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency

Question 7

Blandish (BLAND ish)

Answer 7

v. to coax with flattery, toady or fawn

Question 8

Blandishment

Answer 8

flattery intended to cajole or coax

Question 9

brandish

Answer 9

to shake or wave menacingly

Question 10

vicarious

Answer 10

adj. experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person
adj. acting or done for another

Question 11

Blithe (blithe)

Answer 11

adj. carefree, merry

Question 12

Boisterous (BOY stir us)

Answer 12

adj. loud, noisy, rough, lacking restraint

Question 13

Bolster (BOL stur)

Answer 13

v. to provide support or reinforcement

Question 14

Bombastic (bahm BAS tik)

Answer 14

adj. pompous; grandiloquent

Question 15

pompous

Answer 15

adj. affectedly and irritatingly grand, solemn, or self-important

Question 16

bombast

Answer 16

self-important or pompous writing or speech

Question 17

grandiloquence (gran DI luh kwunts)

Answer 17

n. pompous speech or expression

Question 18

affected

Answer 18

adj. artificial, pretentious, and designed to impress

Question 19

Pretentious

Answer 19

adj. attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed

Question 20

Solemn

Answer 20

adj. formal and dignified
adj. not cheerful or smiling; serious
adj. characterized by deep sincerity(e.g. he swore a solemn oath to keep faith)

Question 21

Dignified

Answer 21

adj. having or showing a composed or serious manner that is worthy of respect

Question 22

dignify

Answer 22

v. make (something) seem worthy and impressive

v. give an impressive name to (someone or something that one considers worthless)

Question 23

affect

Answer 23

v. pretend to have or feel (something)

v. use, wear, or assume (something) pretentiously or so as to make an impression on others