level: Level-3
Questions and Answers List
words from index cards clipped with paper clip
level questions: Level-3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| pedantic | Marked by narrow focus |
| Inquest | Court of law investigates the circumstances of death |
| Ataxia | Loss of ability |
| unflattering | Not favorable way |
| skinflint | someone who shops at bargain stores |
| gratuitous | unnecessary and unwarranted |
| milliner | someone who makes and sells hats |
| onerous | burdensome or difficult to endure |
| filch | steal |
| furtive | covert |
| communion | intimate |
| exaltation | elevation of a person as to the status of god |
| frivolous | not serious in content, attitude |
| hearken | listen |
| hurtle | move with or as if with a rushing sound |
| mange | skin disease causing inflammation, itching |
| warp | bend or twist out of shape |
| philatelist | collector of postage stamps |
| changeling | a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy |
| upstart | person who has suddenly risen to higher economic status |
| stalactite | cylinder of calcium carbonate hanging from a cave roof |
| skin and bones | person who is unusually thin and scrawny |
| olfaction | sense of smell |
| peddler | hawker |
| malfeasance | wrong doing |
| peroration | long speech |
| canonical | confirming to orthodox |
| logomachy | argument about words |
| misoneism | hatred of change or innovation |
| colophon | publisher's emblem printed in a book |
| flocculent | having a fluffy or woolly character |
| entr'acte | the interlude between two sections of a play |
| inveigle | use charm to coax someone |
| encumbrance | a burden or serious concern |
| imperious | arrogant |
| plumage | color and pattern |
| synesthesia | one sense trigger another sense |
| besmirch | tarnish, taint |
| aspersion | attack on reputation or integrity |
| heterozygous | dissimilar alleles |
| goul | ghost |
| elixir | miraculous, magical |
| nadir | lowest point |
| rostrum | platform raised above the surrounding level |
| din | loud, unpleasant |
| obnoxious | causing disapproval |
| waft | movement through air |
| ziggurat | stepped tower |
| progmulgated | finally made public |
| reposed | freedom from activity |
| sprawl | spread out in an ungainly way with your legs and arms |
| strew | spread by scattering |
| eclat | panache, |
| docent | teacher |
| elysian | blissfull state |
| gestalt | category |
| clerisy | educated group considered as group |
| quay | wharf usually built parallel for the shore line |
| littoral | relating to coastal or shore region |
| floe | flat mass of ice drifting at sea |