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Question 1

Benthamite

Answer 1

Jeremy Bentham= founder of Utilitarianism = good things useful, bad things not useful, that which satisfies the most people is proper

Our amoral world is replete with Benthamites.

Question 2

disjunction

Answer 2

a disconnection either logical, rhetorical, or written

Kamala Harris is famous for her logical disjunctions.

Question 3

rectitude

Answer 3

moral correctness

Ovid…”A mind conscious of its rectitude, laughs at the lies of rumors.

Question 4

frabjous

Answer 4

magnificent

“Oh frabjous day…Calloo! Callay!
He shouted in his Joy.”

Question 5

saturnalia

Answer 5

Out of control partying

The quintessential saturnalia is South Beach Spring Break.

Question 6

scabrous

Answer 6

improper and salacious

A scabrous Saturnalia played out at South Beach Spring Break this year requiring a dedicated brigade of policemen and 8pm curfews.

Question 7

excogitation

Answer 7

something hastily and erroneously thought up

Roe vs Wade’s excogitation of “privacy” as “liberty” in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is a judicial stretch.

Question 8

arbiter elegantiae

Answer 8

a person who rules on what is decorous and fashionable

After seeing the epicene freaks at the Men’s Fashion show in Paris, I must conclude that the responsible arbiters elegantiae should be summarily shot.

Question 9

lepidopterist

Answer 9

one who studies butterflies and moths

The lepidopterist’s jaw dropped at the flutter of Miami Blue’s not seen since Hurricane Andrew in 1992.

Question 10

encomium

Answer 10

a formal expression of praise

Encomium’s abound for deGrasse, but he has published nothing of significance in the world of physics, other than renaming Pluto as a dwarf planet.

Question 11

sobriquet

Answer 11

a nickname

My sobriquet in Water Polo was Shamus, due to my defensive prowess.

Question 12

perennial

Answer 12

lasting for an indefinite amount of time

Jacqeuline Smith’s perennial beauty will never fade.

Question 13

ormolu

Answer 13

Gold leaf
Trump’s house is entirely gilded in ormolu.

Question 14

drook

Answer 14

to drench to the point of drowning

Fred and I drove the Toyota through drooked Key West.

Question 15

concordat

Answer 15

an agreement between a religious body and a government

Hitler quickly violated the concordat with the Catholic Church.

Question 16

apace

Answer 16

swlftly

After the thunder the rain followed apace.

Question 17

isocracy

Answer 17

a government where each member has an equal vote without hierarchy or ruling class

Student councils are elected by the isocracy of its attendant students.

Question 18

schroff

Answer 18

to test the purity of gold or silver in a coin

The jury schroffed the witness and found him to be false.

Question 19

stultify

Answer 19

to make something useless and ineffective

Federal District Judges seek to stultify Trump’s plans.

Question 20

hygeiolatry

Answer 20

health fanaticism

The hygeiolatry obsessed California Soccer Mom gagged down her foul green Spinach-Beet Smoothie to help her colonic bioflora and hemic humors.

Question 21

demarche

Answer 21

a formal diplomatic move by one government on another

Trump’s 125% Tariff demarche on China will hurt them.

Question 22

mandamus

Answer 22

an order by a higher court forcing a lower court to act

The Supreme Court issued a mandamus on the District Courts to stop disallowing the deportation of illegal aliens.

Question 23

ukase

Answer 23

a Russian Czar’s absolute edict

Biden’s ukase “get the covid vax or else” fell on the deaf ears of 70 million brave, defiant souls.