Advanced Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• tantamount : equivalent in effect, significance, or value
• fortuitous : occurring by chance; lucky, serendipitous
• veracity : truthfulness
• salient : jutting upward; projecting beyond a line, surface, or level; standing out conspicuously; an outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense
• lethargic : lazy and unenergetic; sluggish
• untenable : indefensible as a matter of argument
• ebullient : lively and enthusiastic
• paragon : a model or example of excellence
• rancor : bitter, deep-seated hatred or ill will
• flotsam : floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo; floating debris
• jettison : to get rid of as superfluous or encumbering : omit or forgo as part of a plan or as the result of some other decision;; to drop (cargo) to lighten a ship's load in time of distress; to drop from an aircraft
• grandiloquent : pompous or lofty in speech
• obdurate : stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing; hardened in feelings, resistant to persuasion
• hubris : excessive pride; downfall of the ancient greeks
• aberration : someone or something (esp. a statistic or event) deemed atypical and thus permissible to ignore or to discount
• maudlin : weakly and effusively sentimental
• zealot : a fanatic believer or partisan (from rebel group in first-century judea)
• jetsam : the part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is cast overboard to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore
• wane : to decrease gradually; a decrease in size, extent, or degree; to dim
• mendacity : being given to, or characterized by, deception, falsehood, or divergence from absolute truth
• insidious : having a gradual and cumulative (usu. harmful) effect; treacherous, harmful yet enticing