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1 - $100 ■ What is the verb for disliking intensely? ■ Clue: I __________cruelty towards animals. ■ What is abominate?

1 - $200 ■ What is acculturation? ■ What is the synonym for the noun adaptation? Clue: When immigrants arrive in a new country, they must go through the process of adapting.

1 - $300 ■ What is the adjective for a chance or accidental meeting? ■ Clue: Our meeting in New York was not accidental. ■ What is adventitious?

1 - $400 ■ What is the definition for the verb to ascribe? Clue: We can only ascribe faults to ourselves, not others. ■ What is to assign or attribute?

1 - $500 ■ What is definition for the adjective circuitous? Clue: They followed a circuitous path home through the forest. ■ What is roundabout, indirect and meandering?

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2 - $100 ■ When we sympathize or feel pity, what are we doing? (verb) ■ Clue: After they lost their home in a flood, we ■ sympathized with them. ■ What is to commiserate?

2 - $200 ■ What is the verb for commanding or ordering? Clue: The general enjoined his troops to seize the hill at 0700 hours. ■ What is to enjoin?

2 - $300 ■ What is to expedite? Clue: The senators agreed to expedite the passage of the new bill for disaster relief. ■ What is to make easy or to facilitate?

2 - $400 ■ What is to make amends or redeem? Clue: The convicted man tried to make amends for his crime through good deeds. ■ What is to expiate?

2 - $500 ■ What is the synonym (s) for the noun, commotion, turmoil? Clue: Caught in the commotion of the rioters, many people began looting stores. ■ What is ferment?

3 - $100 ■ What is unintentional or accidental? Clue: Adj. His thoughtless actions caused unintentional harm. ■ What is inadvertent?

3 - $200 ■ What is nominal? Clue: adj- Knowing that many of the pet owners could not afford to spay/neuter, the vet charged only a nominal fee. ■ What is too small to be taken seriously? What is token, or trifling?

3 - $300 ■ What is noncommitttal? Adj Clue: Although we questioned her repeatedly, her answers were noncommittal. ■ What is cagey or uninformative? What is a person who is unwilling to say a definite yes or no?

3 - $400 ■ What is to peculate? Clue: verb. The greedy executor peculated $20,000 from his client’s inheritance. ■ What is to embezzle or defraud?

3 - $500 ■ What does the noun proclivity mean? Clue: The young girl had a proclivity for rescuing wounded animals. ■ What is a natural bent or tendency?

4 - $100 ■ What is sangfroid? Clue: noun. Faced with a firing squad, the spy showed great sangfroid and calmly smiled. ■ What is composure, coolness and self- assurance, poise?

4 - $200 ■ What is the word for mutinous, rebellious? Clue: adjective. In a communist country, any criticism of the government is mutinous. ■ What is seditious?

4 - $300 ■ What is tenuous? Adjective or noun? Clue: Her understanding of geometry was tenuous at best, and she failed the tests. ■ Adjective. What is flimsy, slender, vague?

4 - $400 ■ What is vitriolic? Adjective or verb? Clue: The candidate’s vitriolic attacks on his rivals made him less and less popular. ■ What is withering, sarcastic, acerbic?

4 - $500 ■ What is to cajole, sweet talk? Verb or noun? Clue: The young man was able to cajole his parents into buying him an expensive car. ■ What is to wheedle?

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Final Jeopardy ■ What two words (adjectives) are similar in ■ meaning? ■ ■ What is adventitious? What is inadvertent?