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Quiz 6
100

Quality of being open, honest, and frank

What is the meaning of candor (noun)?

100

Jingoist (noun)

Who is: One who boasts about patriotism and favors warlike foreign policy.

100

Nonchalant (adjective)

What is: Cool; indifferent; without warmth or animation.

100

Changeable; volatile

What is: Mercurial (adjective)

100

Flashy; tawdry; falsely alluring

What is: Meretricious (adjective)

200

Miscreant (noun)

Who is: a person who behaves badly or in a way that breaks the law.

200

Barren; flat; dull.

What is: Jejune (adjective)

200

Obtuse (adjective)

What is: annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand.

200

A political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument

What is a: Demagogue (noun)

200

Incipient (noun)

What is: Beginning or about to become apparent

300

One who boasts about patriotism and favors warlike foreign policy.

What is a: Jingoist (noun)

300

Accolade (noun)

What is: Praise or approval; an embrace of greeting or salutation.

300

Moot (adjective)

What is: So hypothetical as to be meaningless

300

Praise or approval; an embrace of greeting or salutation.

What is: Accolade (noun)

300

Extra Credit: 

In math, define: Obtuse (adjective)

What is: (of an angle) more than 90° and less than 180°.

"an obtuse angle of 150°"

400

Beginning or about to become apparent

What is the meaning of Incipient (noun)?

400

annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand.

What is: Obtuse (adjective)

400

Meretricious (adjective)

What is: Flashy; tawdry; falsely alluring

400

So hypothetical as to be meaningless

What is: Moot (adjective)

400

a person who behaves badly or in a way that breaks the law.

What is a Miscreant (noun)?

500

Mercurial (adjective)

What is: Changeable; volatile

500

Demagogue (noun)

What is: 

A political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument

500

What is the Meaning of Candor (noun)?

Quality of being open, honest, and frank

500

Jejune (adjective)

What is: Barren; flat; dull?

500

Cool; indifferent; without warmth or animation.

What is: Nonchalant (adjective)