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What is the meaning of the word abscond?
a) deviating from the norm
b) to depart clandestinely, to steal off and hide
c) eager and enthusiastic willingness
d) daring and fearles, recklessly bold

What is the meaning of austere
a) to ease or lessen, to appease or pacify
b) eager and enthusiastic willigness
c) an expression of approval or praise
d) Without adornment, bare, severly simple, ascetic

What is the meaning of axiomatic
a) daring and fearless, recklessly bold
b) to ease or lessn, to appease or pacify
c) Taken as a given, possessing self0evident truth
d) deviation from the normal order

What is the meaning of axiomatic?
a) Taken as a given, Possessing self-evident truth
b) Inclined to change one's mind impulsively, erratic
c) Following or in agreement with accepted traditional standards
d) to depart clandestinely to steal off and hid

What is the meaning of Chicanery
a) Following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards
b) Inclined to change one's mind impulsively, erratic, unpredictable
c) To criticize severly, to officially rebuke
d) Trickery or subterfuge

What is the meaning of effrontery?
a) Complex or complicated
b) Extreme boldness, presumptuousness
c) To undeceive, to set right
d) to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent

What is the meaning of ennui
a) Dissatisfaction and reslessness resulting from boredom or apathy
b) To use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent
c) Very learned, scholarly
d) An informed and astute judge in manners of taste, an expert

What is the meaning of exculpate?
a) Urgent, pressing, reuiring immediate attention
b) Following in agreement with accepted traditional standards
c) Exonerate, to clear of blame
d) To ease or lessen

What is the meaning of fulminate
a) Very learned, scholarly
b) To use anbiguous language with a deceptive intent
c) To praise highly
d) To loudly attack, denounce

Irascible?
a) Of the world, typical of or concerned with the ordinary
b) Associated with war and the armed forces
c) Easily angered, prone to temperamental outbursts
d) To praise highly

What does neologism mean?
a) Coming into begin, in early developmental stages
b) harmful
c) A new word expression or usage, the creation or use of new words or senses
d) To babble meaninglessly

Obtuse?
a) Lacking sharpness of intellect, not clear or precise in thought or expression
b) Coming into being, in early developmental stages
c) Vague cloudy, lacking clearly defined forms
d) Characterized by filth, grime or squalor

What does Paean mean?
a) To anticipate and make unnecessary
b) Intentional breach of faith, treachery
c) Acting with excessive haste or impulse
d) A song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving

What does prevaricate mean?
a) To babble meaninglessly, to talk in an empty and idle manner
b) To deliberately avoid the truth, to mislead
c) Troublering, burdensome
d) To forcibly assign, esp. to a lower place or position

Truculent? What does it mean?
a) Fierce and cruel, eager to fight
b) To move to and fro, to sway to be unsettled in opinion
c) Having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit, ravenous
d) Extremely harmful or poisionous

What does torque mean?
a) Extremely harmful or poisonous
b) To block or thwart
c) A force that causes rotation.
d) To move to and fro

What does solicitious mean?
a) Quiet, reserved, reluctant to express toughts
b) Concerned and attentive, eager
c) Characterized by filth, grime, squalor
d) Forknowledge of events, knowing events b4 they happen

What does Reticent mean?
a) A new word, expression, or usage
b) Lacking sharpness of intellect, not clear or precise
c) Cursory, done without care or interest
d) Quiet, Reserved, Reluctant to express thoughts

What does perfidy mean?
a) Intentional breach of faith, treachery
b) A song or hymn of praise
c) Troubling
d) To cause or happen before anticipated or required

What does Redilection mean?
a) To waste by spending or using irresponsibly
b) To block or thwart
c) Having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit
d) A disposition in favor of something

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