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  • 1. 

    What is a 7 letter word meaning "to absorb, as a gas by a metal"?

    • A.

      Vacuous

    • B.

      Occlude

    • C.

      Perusal

    • D.

      Drought

    Correct Answer
    B. Occlude
  • 2. 

    What is a 6 letter word meaning "existing but not immediately perceptible"?

    • A.

      Occult

    • B.

      Strait

    • C.

      Callow

    • D.

      Quarto

    Correct Answer
    A. Occult
  • 3. 

    What is a 9 letter word meaning "intermeddling with what is not one's concern"?

    • A.

      Arboretum

    • B.

      Officious

    • C.

      Mismanage

    • D.

      Bacterium

    Correct Answer
    B. Officious
  • 4. 

    What is an 8 letter word meaning "to kiss"?

    • A.

      Coercive

    • B.

      Osculate

    • C.

      Sinecure

    • D.

      Wherever

    Correct Answer
    B. Osculate
  • 5. 

    What is an 8 letter word meaning "a retraction"?

    • A.

      Palinode

    • B.

      Diabolic

    • C.

      Undulous

    • D.

      Outright

    Correct Answer
    A. Palinode
  • 6. 

    What is a 5 letter word meaning "paralysis"?

    • A.

      Rigor

    • B.

      Braze

    • C.

      Corps

    • D.

      Palsy

    Correct Answer
    D. Palsy
  • 7. 

    What is a 4 letter word meaning "lacking color or brilliancy"?

    • A.

      Onus

    • B.

      Paly

    • C.

      Flue

    • D.

      Curt

    Correct Answer
    B. Paly
  • 8. 

    What is a 5 letter word meaning "a sudden, unreasonable, overpowering fear"?

    • A.

      Panic

    • B.

      Tipsy

    • C.

      Lowly

    • D.

      Belie

    Correct Answer
    A. Panic
  • 9. 

    What is an 8 letter word meaning "capable of feeling of suffering"?

    • A.

      Irritate

    • B.

      Arrogant

    • C.

      Begrudge

    • D.

      Passible

    Correct Answer
    D. Passible
  • 10. 

    What is an 11 letter word meaning "walking about"?

    • A.

      Testimonial

    • B.

      Reactionary

    • C.

      Circumspect

    • D.

      Peripatetic

    Correct Answer
    D. Peripatetic
  • 11. 

    What is an 11 letter word meaning "reciprocal change, different ordering of same items"?

    • A.

      Permutation

    • B.

      Conductible

    • C.

      Acquisition

    • D.

      Unconscious

    Correct Answer
    A. Permutation
  • 12. 

    What is a 10 letter word meaning "tending to kill or hurt"?

    • A.

      Meticulous

    • B.

      Subversion

    • C.

      Pernicious

    • D.

      Militarism

    Correct Answer
    C. Pernicious
  • 13. 

    What is a 10 letter word meaning "any profit from service beyond the amount fixed as salary or wages"?

    • A.

      Underwrite

    • B.

      Advertiser

    • C.

      Perquisite

    • D.

      Discursive

    Correct Answer
    C. Perquisite
  • 14. 

    What is a 7 letter word meaning "one who has forsaken a doctrine regarded as true for one esteemed false"?

    • A.

      Estuary

    • B.

      Ascetic

    • C.

      Voluble

    • D.

      Pervert

    Correct Answer
    D. Pervert

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