Vocabulary Gerre Quiz: Answers and Winners! by PW Fun & Learning

Good job on Vocabulary Gerre, everyone! It was a challenging one! There was some confusion about our question formats. In our quiz announcement Monday, we did mention there would be spelling questions as well as definitions! We always try to give hints there about what quiz content will be. Just a little tip to check that in the future!

Note: We did eliminate the question involving the definition of “interlocutor”, because we had a spelling error in it! That question will not be included in your score.

Here are the stats, answers, and winners.

STATS

3,881 people took the quiz.
156 people scored 100%!
The question most people (93%) got right was…#21!
The question most people missed (only 45% got it right) was…#15.

ANSWERS

Q.3

“Fatuous” means:

• steadfast
• ***silly
• signficant
• despicable

Q.4

“Nonplussed” means:

• deficient
• uninterested
• ***bewildered
• angry

Q.5

“Conscience” means aware and responding to one’s surroundings.

• correct
• ***incorrect

Q.6

On New Year’s Day, 2000, we entered a new “millennium”.

• ***correct
• incorrect

Q.7

I’ve got “rhythym”; I’ve got music.

• correct
• ***incorrect

Q.8

“Munificent” means:

• ***generous
• glamorous
• prudent
• calculating

Q.9

Pulchritudinous means:

• putrid
• unseemly
• aromatic
• ***beautiful

Q.10

Garrulous means excessively ___________.

• aggressive
• ***talkative
• rude
• pleasing

Q.11

The hotel could not “accomodate” any more guests on New Year’s Eve.

• correct
• ***incorrect

Q.12

I went to the bank to unlock my “safety deposit box.”

• Correct
• ***Incorrect

Q.13

Which of the following is the correct spelling?

• perservere
• ***persevere
• persavere
• perserveer

Q.14

An autodidact:

• talks aloud to himself
• does drawings of himself
• ***teaches himself
• teaches driving

Q.15

Which of the following is not a definition of the word “capital?”

• a city
• money
• ***landmark building
• architectural feature

Q.16

If a situation is copacetic, it is:

• comical
• chaotic
• impossible
• ***satisfactory

Q.17

Consciously aware and mindful:

• sentiment
• ***sentient
• senescent
• sinister

Q.18

Frugal is to thrifty as sanguine is to:

• courageous
• gloomy
• ***optimistic
• jaundiced

Q.19

If you anthropomorphize, you:

• accuse someone
• ***humanize non-human object
• study excavated cultural artifacts
• exercise excessively

Q.20

Benign is to malignant as fractious is to:

• ***affable
• grouchy
• curious
• bellicose

Q.21

Idiosyncrasies are NOT:

• quirks
• ***cravings
• eccentricities
• peculiarities

WINNERS

The first place winner is…Rhea D.!
The second place winner is…Dawniemae C.!
The third place winner is…Jenny H.!

Congratulations, winners! Contact prizes@thepioneerwoman.com to claim your prizes!