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bombastic - Correct Answers ✅(adj.) pompous or overblown in language; full of high-sounding words intended to conceal a lack of ideas requisite - Correct Answers ✅necessary for relief or supply apocryphal - Correct Answers ✅of questionable authenticity laconic - Correct Answers ✅brief and to the point garrulous - Correct Answers ✅full of trivial conversation ascetic - Correct Answers ✅practicing great self-denial taciturn - Correct Answers ✅habitually reserved and uncommunicative tempestuous - Correct Answers ✅(of the elements) as if showing violent anger demarcation - Correct Answers ✅the boundary of a specific area execrable - Correct Answers ✅of very poor quality or condition
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prolific - Correct Answers ✅bearing in abundance especially offspring eclectic - Correct Answers ✅selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas expediency - Correct Answers ✅A means of achieving a particular end, as in a situation requiring haste or caution. harrowing - Correct Answers ✅extremely painful prodigious - Correct Answers ✅so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe stymied - Correct Answers ✅thwarted; stumped; blocked sidereal - Correct Answers ✅of or relating to the stars or constellations etiolated - Correct Answers ✅weakened or sickly circumscribed - Correct Answers ✅restricted or limited
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antediluvian - Correct Answers ✅so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period pusillanimous - Correct Answers ✅lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution jejune - Correct Answers ✅displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity, lacking interest or significance ludology - Correct Answers ✅the study of games and other forms of play kinesiology - Correct Answers ✅study of movement cybernetics - Correct Answers ✅the science of communications and automatic control systems in both machines and living things disencumber - Correct Answers ✅to free from burdens, to extricate inherent - Correct Answers ✅in the nature of something though not readily apparent
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stipulated - Correct Answers ✅insisted; to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement insurgencies - Correct Answers ✅A group that fights against the gov. demarcates - Correct Answers ✅separates by boundaries, distinguishes antedates - Correct Answers ✅predating a current time in history superannuation - Correct Answers ✅the property of being out of date and not current senescence - Correct Answers ✅the property characteristic of old age imbibement - Correct Answers ✅to drink, absorb abscond - Correct Answers ✅to depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide aberrant - Correct Answers ✅deviating from the norm (noun form: aberration)
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capricious - Correct Answers ✅inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic, unpredictable censure - Correct Answers ✅to criticize severely; to officially rebuke chicanery - Correct Answers ✅trickery or subterfuge connoisseur - Correct Answers ✅an informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert convoluted - Correct Answers ✅complex or complicated disabuse - Correct Answers ✅to undeceive; to set right discordant - Correct Answers ✅conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound disparate - Correct Answers ✅fundamentally distinct or dissimilar effrontery - Correct Answers ✅extreme boldness; presumptuousness eloquent - Correct Answers ✅well-spoken, expressive, articulate
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enervate - Correct Answers ✅to weaken; to reduce in vitality ennui - Correct Answers ✅dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy equivocate - Correct Answers ✅to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent erudite - Correct Answers ✅very learned; scholarly exculpate - Correct Answers ✅exonerate; to clear of blame exigent - Correct Answers ✅urgent, pressing; requiring immediate action or attention extemporaneous - Correct Answers ✅improvised; done without preparation filibuster - Correct Answers ✅intentional obstruction, esp. using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action
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nascent - Correct Answers ✅coming into being; in early developmental stages nebulous - Correct Answers ✅vague; cloudy; lacking clearly defined form
