Words 200 - 400

Question 1

ameliorate

Answer 1

v. to relieve, as from pain or hardship

Question 2

amenable

Answer 2

adj. willing and ready to submit.

Question 3

amity

Answer 3

n. friendship

Question 4

ampersand

Answer 4

n. the character &

Question 5

anachronism

Answer 5

n. anything occurring or existing out of its proper time

Question 6

anathema

Answer 6

n. anything forbidden, as by social usage.

Question 7

anemometer

Answer 7

n. an instrument for measuring the force or velocity of wind.

Question 8

animadversion

Answer 8

n. the utterance of criticism or censure

Question 9

animadvert

Answer 9

v. to pass criticism or censure

Question 10

animalcule

Answer 10

n. an animal of microscopic smallness.

Question 11

annalist

Answer 11

n. historian

Question 12

annex

Answer 12

v. to add or affix at the end.

Question 13

annunciation

Answer 13

n. proclamation

Question 14

antediluvian

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adj. of or pertaining to the times, things, events before the great flood in the days of Noah.

Question 15

antemundane

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adj. pertaining to time before the world’s creation.

Question 16

anteroom

Answer 16

n. a room situated before and opening into another, usually larger.

Question 17

anthracite

Answer 17

n. hard coal

Question 18

antilogy

Answer 18

n. inconsistency or contradiction in terms or ideas.

Question 19

antiphon

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n. a response or alteration of responses, generally musical.

Question 20

antiphony

Answer 20

n/ an anthem or other composition sung responsively.

Question 21

antipodes

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n. a place or region on the opposite side of the earth.

Question 22

apogee

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n. the climax.

Question 23

apostasy

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n. a total departure from one’s faith or religion.

Question 24

apostate

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adj. false.

Question 25

apothecary

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n. one who keeps drugs for sale and puts up prescriptions.

Question 26

apotheosis

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n. deification.

Question 27

appellate

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adj. capable of being appealed to.

Question 28

appellation

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n. the name or title by which a particular person, class, or thing is called.

Question 29

appertain

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v. to belong, as by right, fitness, association, classification, possession or natural relation

Question 30

apposite

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adj. appropriate

Question 31

apposition

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n. the act of placing side by side, together, or in contact.

Question 32

approbation

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n. sanction.

Question 33

arbiter

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n. one chosen or appointed by mutual consent of parties in dispute to decide matters.

Question 34

arbor

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n. a tree.

Question 35

arboretum

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n. a botanical garden or place devoted to the cultivation of trees or shrubs.

Question 36

archangel

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n. an angel of high rank.

Question 37

archbishop

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n. the chief of the bishops of an ecclesiastical province in the Greek, Roman and Anglican church.

Question 38

archdeacon

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n. a high official administrator of the affairs of a diocese.

Question 39

ardor

Answer 39

n. intensity of passion or affection.

Question 40

arrant

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adj. notoriously bad.

Question 41

arrear

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n. something overdue and unpaid.

Question 42

arrogate

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v. to take, demand or claim, especially presumptuously or without reasons or grounds.

Question 43

Artesian well

Answer 43

n. a very deep bored well, water rises due to underground pressure.

Question 44

Arthurian

Answer 44

adj. Pertaining to King Arthur, the real or legendary hero of the British poetic story.

Question 45

artifice

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n. trickery.

Question 46

artless

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adj. ingenuous.

Question 47

askance

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adv. with a side or indirect glance or meaning.

Question 48

asperity

Answer 48

n. harshness or roughness of temper.

Question 49

assay

Answer 49

n. the chemical analysis or testing of an alloy ore.

Question 50

assessor

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n. an officer whose duty it is to assess taxes.

Question 51

assiduous

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adj. diligent

Question 52

assonance

Answer 52

n. resemblance or correspondence in sound.

Question 53

assonate

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v. to accord in sound, especially vowel sound.

Question 54

assuage

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v. to cause to be less harsh, violent, or severe, as excitement, appetite, pain or disease.

Question 55

astringent

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adj. harsh in disposition or character.

Question 56

aura

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n. a pervasive psychic influence supposed to emanate from persons.

Question 57

auriferous

Answer 57

adj. containing gold.

Question 58

autarchy

Answer 58

n. unrestricted power.