Words

Question 1

What does Censure mean? Think Snape

Answer 1

To express sever disapproval of someone or something, especially in a formal statement. (Severus Snape, it’s literally in his name)

Question 2

Empathy is

Answer 2

The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

Question 3

What does Pretentious mean? Think Harry Potter in the fifth book.

Answer 3

To act of greater importance than you actually are, like Draco Malfoy in the first five books

Question 4

Mundane is what? (“he’s a mundane Clary”)

Answer 4

Lacking of interest, boring or dull.

Question 5

Connotation meaning

Answer 5

An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. (Cottage versus cabin in the woods, one is death the other is nice)

Question 6

Benevolent (Think in sarcastic sense, then revoke that)

Answer 6

Well meaning and kindly.

Question 7

Anachronism (think coffee cup)

Answer 7

Something that is misplaced in time, like the Game Of Thrones Starbucks coffee cup when the show is set in Medieval times.

Question 8

Substantive (You know that book series you read once where people could dream walk and the dream leaked into reality? Yeah the opposite of that)

Answer 8

Having a firm basis in reality and therefore important, meaningful, or considerable.

Question 9

Assiduous (Not the demon god, like the opposite of the demon god)

Answer 9

Showing great care and perseverance.

Question 10

Fortunatus (Percy Jackson dragon)

Answer 10

Fortunatus is a Latin word meaning “happy, lucky, rich, blessed”.

Question 11

Delusional (fantasy)

Answer 11

A person who has ideas that contradict reality.

Question 12

Enigma (Like the moon an Enigma)

Answer 12

A strange, mysterious person or object that is hard to understand. (The Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde)

Question 13

Acrimony (Snape to James Potter)

Answer 13

Bitter hostility or ill feeling.

Question 14

Auspicious (We struck gold!)

Answer 14

Favorable, or conducive to a sign of future success.

Question 15

Banal.

I don’t even know what to put here the word describes itself

Answer 15

so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring, common. Used in a sentence: He doesn’t like English poetry, he finds it very banal.

Question 16

Waver (Peter Pettigrew’s loyalty to James Potter)

Answer 16

To sway back in forth, or to waver in will.

Question 17

Antagonism (Don’t antagonize him)

Answer 17

Active hostility or opposition.

Question 18

Pragmatic, not to bring a rouge into a casino

Answer 18

Dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations.

Question 19

Comity

BAATC mixed with politics

Answer 19

An association of nations for their mutual benefit.
2.
Courtesy and considerate behavior toward others.

Question 20

Amity

BAATC. That’s it, just BAATC

Answer 20

A friendly friendship.

Question 21

Epitaph

Answer 21

Writing on a gravestone

Question 22

Affable meaning

Answer 22

Friendly, good-natured, or easy to talk to.

Question 23

Alleviate

Answer 23

To make suffering less sever, example: The BAATC alleviates emotional pain

Question 24

Hamper (Not to be confused with the laundry basket)

Answer 24

To interfere with an operation

Question 25

Fervor ("Fervor Lia, Fervor!")

Answer 25

Intense and passionate feeling. Like the Kozimar wanted Jezalia to put fervor into people's hearts

Question 26

Candor

Answer 26

The quality of being open and honest in expression; frankness.

Question 27

Carping

Answer 27

Difficult to please; critical.

Question 28

Machina

Answer 28

Greek, literally translates to "a god from a machine."