Nouns
This means "my fault."
What is mea culpa?
Fill in the blank: "The house was blown to ______________ when the gas line exploded."
What is smithereens?
Fill in the blank: "The College does not __________ academic dishonesty in any form."
What is condone?
Fill in the blank: "The ____________ English professor failed an otherwise excellent paper because it was missing an MLA header."
What is finicky?
Fill in the blank: "Her job is to act as a _____________ between the mayor's office and the press."
What is liason?
This is something a landscape architect might include in a design.
What is a bower?
Fill in the blank: "The con artist ran a scam trying to ________________ the elderly into giving away their retirement funds."
What is hoodwink?
Fill in the blank: "The vain king surrounded himself with _______________ followers who never contradicted him."
What is obsequious?
Sherlock Holmes is a famous example of this.
What is a sleuth?
Fill in the blank: "The party is using attitudes about gun control as a ________________ for political candidates."
What is a litmus test?
Fill in the blank: "Nature began to ____________ on the once carefully tended garden."
What is encroach?
This means overly cliched or sentimental.
What is bathetic?
Fill in the blank: "Only a parent could enjoy the ear-splitting ____________ of the Kindergarten orchestra."
What is cacophony?
Always capitalized, this word could refer to a giant sea creature or a giant government.
What is a Leviathon?
This is a synonym for "predict."
What is portend?
Fill in the blank: "The ____________ puppy often barked at dogs twice his size."
What is feisty?
This is a driving force or stimulus.
What is impetus?
This is synonym for logical thought.
What is ratiocination?
Fill in the blank: "The author's long and ___________ new novel might attract intellectuals but will probably not interest the general public."
What is cerebral? (This is an adjective, not a verb)
This is a synonym for difficult.
What is arduous?