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EXPLANATION
Gauche: lacking social grace, sensitivity, or acuteness, awkward, crude; tactless
A) Adroit: skillful; clever
B) Devious: departing from the most direct way; circuitous; indirect
C) Prosaic: common place of dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative
D) Volatile: of a liquid, changing rapidly into gas; of a person changing from one
mood to another
E) Dormant: lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid
THE CORRECT ANSWER IS (A)

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EXPLANATION
Peccadillo: a very minor or slight sin or offense; a trifling fault

A) Sin: an action of breaking a religious or moral law
B) Pedantry: the character, quality, practices of a pedant especially undue display
of learning
C) Virtue: behavior that shows high moral standards; goodness
D) Riata: a lariat
E) Condolence: expression of sympathy with a person who is suffering sorrow,
misfortune, or grief
THE CORRECT ANSWER IS (C)

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EXPLANATION
Mellifluous: sweetly or smoothly flowing
A) Sugary: tasting of sugar; sweet
B) Resonant: resounding or echoing, as sounds
C) Risible: fit to be laugh at; ridiculous
D) Supercilious: haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial
expression
E) Cacophonous: having a harsh or discordant sound
THE CORRECT ANSWER IS (E)

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EXPLANATION
Saturnalian: one that celebrate the festival of Saturn in December in ancient
Rome as a time of unrestrained merrymaking
A) Sardonic: showing that one thinks one is superior or that one is not taking
somebody or something seriously

B) Ascetic: not allowing oneself pleasures and comforts; having or involving a
very simple life
C) Nascent: beginning to exist; not yet fully developed
D) Envisaged: to contemplate visualize
E) Insolvent: unable to pay debts
THE CORRECT ANSWER IS (B)

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EXPLANATION
Obfuscate: to make something confusing or difficult to understand, especially
deliberately
A) Simulate: artificial, but made to look, feel, etc like the real things
B) Palliate: to make disease less severe or unpleasant, without removing the
cause
C) Compliment: an expression of praise, admiration, approval, etc
D) Elucidate: to make something clear; to explain something
E) Portend: to be a sign or warning of something in the future
THE CORRECT ANSWER IS (D)