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Fancy Vocabulary #2

Feel smart and fancy by completing the English words from their definitions. Correct spelling is required.
The previous quiz in this series can be found here (Quiz 1)
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Last updated: January 17, 2019
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First submittedSeptember 5, 2018
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Rating4.51
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Definition
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Enemy
Adversary
To seize power by force
Usurp
Respectful, courteous
Deferential
The highest point, apex
Zenith
Puzzle, problem
Conundrum
Social outcast
Pariah
Short-lived, fleeting
Ephemeral
Revered, holy
Sacrosanct
Rudeness, irritability
Petulance
Honest, trustful
Ingenuous
Definition
Answer
Nerve, audacity
Temerity
Attentive to detail
Fastidious
Idealistic; impractical
Quixotic
Silly or childish
Puerile
Uninterested; indifferent
Apathetic
Modest, quiet, reserved
Demure
Innumerable, countless
Myriad
Deception, sleight of hand
Legerdemain
Dominance over others
Hegemony
Mercy, forgiveness
Clemency
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39 Comments
luxint
+8
Level 66
Sep 5, 2018
The best of its kind for ages. Really well pitched. Surely should make front page some day? Thanks
markthoma
+1
Level 72
Jun 25, 2021
I agree, these are all great words and I was please to see some of them in a quiz that I don't recall seeing in a quiz before.
ZaKitty
+3
Level 77
Oct 13, 2018
Great quiz. I think it's 'sleight of hand' though.
stevediverse
+1
Level 89
Oct 13, 2018
Sleight it is, unless it means small hands
ander217
+6
Level 75
Jan 16, 2019
Wouldn't have mattered to me either way. Absolutely never heard the word before in my life. My learning moment of the day.
DonTheLamplighter
+1
Level 85
Jan 18, 2020
Yep. Never knew such a word existed until just now.
ing
+3
Level 71
May 7, 2020
It's originally French for "lightness of hand".
redsplat
+3
Level 73
Oct 13, 2018
Would you consider accepting 'pettish' and/or 'pettishness' for "rudeness, irritability"? Especially as it is listed as a synonym to the type-in....
pattage23
+1
Level 80
Oct 13, 2018
Are those actually words, though? :)
gatorsong
+4
Level 71
Oct 15, 2018
Or accept petulant. I was stuck on that one until I tried different forms of the word.
ander217
+1
Level 75
Jan 16, 2019
I tried pettiness. "Undue concern with trivial matters, especially of a small-minded or spiteful nature." But I think pettishness works even better, and petulant is listed as a synonym of pettish here: https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/pettish. (Pettishness is word.) I tried petulant just as time ran out, and I think I would have gotten the noun with a few more seconds. (Great quiz, BTW.)
HickoryRun
+1
Level 75
Oct 16, 2018
ingenue is another spelling to consider (same meaning). Great quiz.
pentamom
+3
Level 24
Jan 18, 2019
But that is a noun, and the definition given is for an adjective.
Geografii
+1
Level 59
Oct 27, 2018
Idealistic and impractical are not the same at all.
cornflakesfu
+10
Level 87
Jan 16, 2019
Hence the semicolon rather than a comma in the definition, indicating two different senses of the word rather than two synonyms describing the same sense.
Baltimorean
+1
Level 67
Jan 16, 2019
My first means company; my second shuns company; my third attracts company. What is _________?
mikeb
+1
Level 65
Jan 16, 2019
100%, but who is the photo?
Kevinmak
+1
Level 64
Jan 16, 2019
Joseph Chamberlain
mikeb
+2
Level 65
Jan 16, 2019
Oh, Wilt's father. Thanks. W.F. Buckley would have also been an appropriate photo.
ander217
+4
Level 75
Jan 16, 2019
Deferent is another term for deferential. Please accept? When it didn't work I couldn't think of another word that fit and moved on.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-ab&q=define+deferent

MiracleMax
+2
Level 74
Jan 16, 2019
Seconded. When "deferent" didn't work I moved right past it.
LadyScroop
+2
Level 66
Jan 16, 2019
More of these please! More vocab in general!
kiwirage
+1
Level 62
Jan 16, 2019
Fair comments about deferent and pettishness. Have submitted an update that will include these answers.
lbjool
+5
Level 89
Jan 16, 2019
You may be a Harry Potter nerd when your first try for "sleight of hand" was "legilimency." B-)
JackintheBox
+1
Level 79
Jan 17, 2019
Great quiz for expanding one's vocabulary
funquizze
+1
Level 17
Oct 1, 2024
but you forget it after 10 seconds???
jargoun
+3
Level 48
Jan 17, 2019
The synonyms for "ingenuous" don't quite hit the mark. Meriam-Websters defines it as:

a : showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness

b : lacking craft or subtlety

JackintheBox
+1
Level 79
Mar 2, 2019
I typed in clement, clemention, clemeny, clementious, clementous, clementus, clemy...
IsleAuHaulte
+3
Level 89
Mar 2, 2019
I don't think I've ever heard anyone drop legerdemain in conversation.
Zefyrinus
+2
Level 72
Apr 26, 2019
Deception - legpulling...?
RealDad12
+2
Level 67
Sep 15, 2019
I've done this quiz three times and not once have I picked legerdemain. Grrr.
KiwiQuizWhiz
+2
Level 39
Aug 14, 2020
I only got ONE... I guess I don't use a very fancy vocab.😐😂
funquizze
+1
Level 17
Oct 1, 2024
I got zero get to my level haha
communisteggplant
+3
Level 73
Aug 3, 2021
I thought this quiz was...um...what's the word...unbad?
Ingandtom
+2
Level 52
Oct 31, 2021
And you used Neville Chamberlain's father's pic why?
MindWax
+3
Level 84
Feb 16, 2022
look how fancy he is! Dude's got a monocle, I'm certain he was constantly using words like legerdemain
b1094
+1
Level 69
Apr 1, 2022
"Petulance" does not mean "rudeness".
Saintscat3
+1
Level 57
Jul 8, 2024
come on this is too easy I use these words every day man
funquizze
+1
Level 17
Oct 1, 2024
ok saintscat. what is a omnipotent examplization of a quantum yutczofabilition, also known as an tetronominicanical, of the emprical evidencidosonipendilium?
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