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What is the meaning of sobriety?

• a shelter from danger or hardship

• showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding

• the state of being sober and not intoxicated by alcohol

• love of darkness

• to run away from a debt

What is the meaning of requisition?

• the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability

• large in the amount that can be contained

• unrestrained by convention or propriety

• an authoritative request or demand

• rudely abrupt or blunt in speech or manner

What is the meaning of quaint?

• attractively old-fashioned

• surrender under agreed condition

• imposing or depending on or containing an assumption

• characteristic of those who treat others with arrogance

• work together on a common enterprise or project

What is the meaning of philanthropic?

• harmful to living things

• a message that departs from the main subject

• of or relating to charitable giving

• a difficult problem

• the act of coming closer

What is the meaning of ostracism?

• the act of excluding someone from society by general consent

• understanding and entering into another's feelings

• lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike

• strive to equal or match, especially by imitating

• tending to move apart in different directions

What is the meaning of hegemony?

• the dominance or leadership of one social group over others

• worthy of imitation

• a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges

• causing weakness or debilitation

• strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity

What is the meaning of fetter?

• a shackle for the ankles or feet

• avoiding waste

• filled with or attended with

• incapable of being avoided or prevented

• a tentative insight that is not yet verified or tested

What is the meaning of ephemeral?

• found in the ordinary course of events

• marked by casual unconcern or indifference

• the property of having lived for a considerable time

• intended to attract notice and impress others

• anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day

What is the meaning of debauch?

• a wild gathering involving excessive drinking

• serving or tending to excite or stimulate

• lacking wit or imagination

• the condition of having good fortune

• postpone doing what one should be doing

What is the meaning of abrogate?

• a feeling of profound respect for someone or something

• examine carefully for accuracy

• revoke formally

• the ability to understand and discriminate between relations

• the act of improving by renewing and restoring

What is the meaning of trite?

• of, affecting, or being on or near the surface

• repeated too often; over familiar through overuse

• profoundly honored

• difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze

• lasting a very short time

What is the meaning of evince?

• marked by sound judgment

• show to be right by providing justification or proof

• reveal the presence of (a quality or feeling)

• attribute or credit to

• marked by keen caution and watchful prudence

What is the meaning of beguile?

• very noisy or difficult to control

• deserving to be feared and respected

• too simple, naive; dull, lacking nourishment

• just begun and so not fully formed or developed

• charm or enchant (someone), often in a deceptive way

What is the meaning of alacrity?

• seeming to be everywhere or in several places at the same time

• knowing or appearing to know about things before they happen

• exceptional, outstanding

• cognitive, relating to learning, or involving knowledge

• liveliness and eagerness

What is the meaning of grandiloquent?

• pompous or extravagant in language, style, or manner

• pretending to have feelings, beliefs, or virtues that one does not have.

• incapable of being appeased or mitigated

• not able to manage things properly or look after oneself, not responsible enough

• to steal money by falsifying records