Quiz 41 of 50 -- Barron words

Number Question Answer Your answer
1 giving off an odor 1 commonplace
2 incinerate
3 bearing
4 unfrock
5 odoriferous
2 cruel; (of a disease) deadly 1 tugboat
2 puissant
3 fell
4 reactionary
5 lyric
3 lacking in imagination; dull and unimaginative; matter-of-fact(concerned with facts, not imagination or feelings); factual; CF. prose 1 fete(f\^ete)
2 prosaic
3 cumulative
4 stately
5 plot
4 excessively fat; N. obesity 1 coroner
2 precocious
3 obese
4 nag
5 homogeneous
5 breaking of contract or duty; fissure or gap; opening; V. 1 incredulity
2 unearthly
3 breach
4 sizable
5 lethargic
6 make lively or spirited; animate 1 estimable
2 pulsate
3 ruddy
4 enliven
5 cantankerous
7 causing plague; tending to cause death; baneful; N. pestilence: fatal epidemic disease (esp. bubonic plague) 1 pestilential(pestilent)
2 best
3 respite
4 sibling
5 hoodwink
8 mass of wood for burning a corpse 1 delineate
2 gusher
3 colloquy
4 pyre
5 trudge
9 very important; N. moment; CF. momentary 1 aegis
2 overdue
3 momentous
4 obese
5 enclave
10 bundle of stalks of grain; any bundle of things tied together 1 judiciary
2 disillusion
3 abstract
4 reagent
5 sheaf
Number Question Answer Your answer
11 haughty; arrogant; condescending; patronizing; CF. eyebrow, cilium 1 gracious
2 corrugated
3 indecision
4 necklace
5 supercilious
12 (of a person) bold; adventurous; daring; (of an action) risky 1 sluice
2 uproar
3 anthropologist
4 castrate
5 venturesome
13 apparatus for controlling a horse or for fastening a horse to a cart; V. 1 remediable
2 factious
3 lachrymose
4 harness
5 propitiate
14 floor made of wood strips inlaid in a mosaic like matter; CF. strip: long narrow piece 1 veneer
2 proliferate
3 connoisseur
4 propulsive
5 parquet
15 enormously large or extensive 1 remiss
2 layman
3 impropriety
4 flowery
5 astronomical
16 dry food for livestock; fodder 1 treatise
2 mature
3 bettor
4 solder
5 provender
17 sparing in eating and drinking; temperate 1 plot
2 compliance
3 gild
4 abstemious
5 cantankerous
18 waver (in opinion); fluctuate; sway to and fro; N. vacillation 1 depreciate
2 preamble
3 parity
4 vacillate
5 weird
19 underwater explosive apparatus; V. 1 misconstrue
2 megalomania
3 torpedo
4 heedless
5 chorus
20 examination of a dead body; postmortem; V. 1 bilk
2 autopsy
3 secular
4 incontrovertible
5 covetous
Number Question Answer Your answer
21 cut down; cut down expenses; economize 1 dowse
2 handbill
3 sportive
4 retrench
5 skinflint
22 unjustified; having no justification; groundless; baseless; undeserved 1 lust
2 gravity
3 rectify
4 unwarranted
5 orthography
23 conventions; moral standards; moral customs 1 gestate
2 encipher
3 frenzied
4 mores
5 frock
24 composed (with no excitement); grave; V: administer a sedative to; CF. sedative 1 sedate
2 address
3 tundra
4 placard
5 beseech
25 messenger 1 courier
2 pedant
3 animadversion
4 stupefy
5 institutionalize
26 poet 1 incur
2 vanquish
3 gangway
4 bard
5 trunk
27 power to produce desired effect; ADJ. efficacious: effectual 1 grandiloquent
2 pontifical
3 coterminous
4 gambit
5 efficacy
28 food; CF. live 1 gauche
2 defunct
3 canter
4 moodiness
5 viand
29 picture made of small colorful inlaid tiles; ADJ. 1 enmesh
2 millennium
3 allocate
4 outmoded
5 mosaic
30 put in danger 1 imperil
2 connoisseur
3 parable
4 avarice
5 spasmodic
Number Question Answer Your answer
31 freedom from punishment or harm; CF. punish 1 abstinence
2 cursory
3 atrophy
4 impunity
5 edifice
32 small amount (of money); small allowance or wage 1 dismantle
2 rejoinder
3 imperil
4 pittance
5 bode
33 seize; take possession of (private property) by official order (usu. as a punishment); commandeer 1 prologue
2 reimburse
3 ursine
4 confiscate
5 cramp
34 counselor; teacher 1 miscellany
2 suitcase
3 mentor
4 faucet
5 canny
35 glass water bottle; decanter 1 leonine
2 vendor
3 carafe
4 latent
5 equity
36 bring (parts) together to form a single whole; combine 1 plebiscite
2 disconsolate
3 tarantula
4 console
5 conflate
37 make or become shrunken and wrinkled (often by drying) 1 facade
2 shrivel
3 tryst
4 unguent
5 ventilate
38 dirty child in torn clothes; person wearing tattered clothes 1 presentiment
2 decapitate
3 misogamy
4 ragamuffin
5 paddle
39 formation of infantry carrying overlapping shields and long spears; group of men packed together (for attack or defense) 1 scurvy
2 millinery
3 amorphous
4 transpose
5 phalanx
40 drink greedily 1 clientele
2 proxy
3 commodious
4 swill
5 imperil
Number Question Answer Your answer
41 gather into wrinkles or folds; N: wrinkle or fold 1 plaster
2 wreath
3 gravel
4 consummate
5 pucker
42 made of bone; bony 1 herbivorous
2 deface
3 fathomless
4 blueprint
5 osseous
43 thrift; economy; ADJ. frugal: practicing economy; costing little; inexpensive 1 frugality
2 plebeian
3 dishearten
4 bellicose
5 offhand
44 all products of human thought; breeding of animals or growing of plants; CF. agriculture, horticulture 1 culture
2 caption
3 expostulation
4 pigment
5 abusive
45 quack; pretender to knowledge (esp. in medicine) 1 supererogatory
2 imbalance
3 hummock
4 charlatan
5 incapacitate
46 slip or slide 1 missile
2 slither
3 aegis
4 fortuitous
5 conclusive
47 infinite; limitless 1 shipment
2 contiguous
3 carnal
4 toss
5 illimitable
48 ornament worn around the neck; 1 biennial
2 resplendent
3 apiculture
4 necklace
5 torso
49 pouring forth; unrestrained outpouring of feeling; V. effuse: pour out; ADJ. effusive: pouring forth; gushing 1 sidewalk
2 spectral
3 distinct
4 effusion
5 sobriety
50 hard foot (as of the horse) 1 celestial
2 restraint
3 hoof
4 diadem
5 lilliputian
Number Question Answer Your answer
51 descent; ancestry 1 wiggle
2 allocate
3 lineage
4 cartilage
5 sway
52 of a fetus; N. fetus: foetus; unborn young of a vertebrate (distinguished from the earlier embryo); 1 spoilsport
2 fetal
3 warranty
4 trident
5 voodoo
53 act or manner of using; accepted practice; way in which words are actually used 1 usage
2 frieze
3 milestone
4 mote
5 effulgent
54 advanced in development; N. precocity 1 brawn
2 precocious
3 disciple
4 peruse
5 hibernal
55 delicate; of very fine quality 1 incorporate
2 choice
3 anthropologist
4 intermediary
5 missive
56 eerie; strange; unnatural 1 certify
2 maxim
3 weird
4 condiments
5 cravat
57 distortion; burlesque 1 nonentity
2 belligerent
3 adulterate
4 caricature
5 prop
58 questionable medicine; quack medicine; CF. our (remedy) 1 chaotic
2 nostrum
3 teetotalism
4 friction
5 artifice
59 pretending to be virtuous; deceiving; N. hypocrisy: profession of beliefs one does not possess; CF. hypocrite 1 stun
2 carping
3 broil
4 hypocritical
5 growl
60 attic 1 garret
2 pragmatist
3 dissipate
4 dissident
5 denizen
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