1. Sad
   Evil
2. Rarely seen
   Everywhere

Ubiquitous means existing or being everywhere, especially at the same time. For example, "Cellphones used to be a luxury item for security or status. Today they are ubiquitous, everyone has one."

1. Reckon
   Reward
2. Reach
   Produce or give way

There are two definitions of the verb yield. One is to produce or provide in a natural, agricultural or industrial way. It also means to give way to arguments, demands or pressure.

1. A sudden outburst of anger
   The elasticity and hardness of a metal object
2. Make something more acceptable
   A and B

Whether you use temper in metallurgy or when describing a particular state of mind as in someone's temper, you're using the word as a noun.

1. Inclination toward
   Fear of
2. Dislike of
   Jealous of

Proclivity is a strong natural liking for something that is usually bad. Some people may have a proclivity for alcohol or fatty foods.

1. Exciting
   Horrifying
2. Not original
   Misspelled

Trite means the subject is not interesting or effective because of being used too often. It is not fresh or original.

1. To water crops
   Seize without justification
2. A standoffish attitude
   Weaponry

Here is an example of how to use arrogated in a sentence. "She arrogated the leadership role to herself before anyone else had a chance to speak up or claim it."

1. An action used with swords.
   Flatter someone.
2. Making a meal tasteless.
   Punishment

Blandishment is an action or speech that tends to flatter, coax or entice someone. For example, "Our blandishments left him unmoved."

1. A type of blimp
   A type of train
2. A light breeze
   A type of mammal

"A summer zephyr gently stirred the leaves around the park, swirling here and there."

1. Squeeze
   Cause or make
2. Revolt
   Rejoice

Render has a few meanings, but the first definition is cause or make. An illness might render you unable to walk. The noun, render, means a first coat of plaster applied to a brick or stone surface. Now you know!

1. Hilarity
   Surprise
2. Secretly
   Stressful

If someone found out how you got the information, you would be in trouble. In other words, something or someone obtained by stealth, secretly or through unauthorized procedures.

1. A book-length work of fiction
   Something new and different
2. Impossible
   Exhilaration

If novel is used as a noun it means a book, but if it's used as an adjective, it means something so new and original that it's never been seen, used or even thought of before.

1. Complete control
   One of royalty
2. Reaching your goal
   A part of a sentence

When you want to bring someone or something under complete control you want to subjugate it, or conquer it.

1. Mummified
   Magnificent
2. Generous
   Evil thinking

Maybe because the meaning is similar to magnanimous, you might have hesitated to define this word correctly. The meaning of munificent is very generous.

1. The rebel
   The leader
2. The follower
   The sweetheart

A person who is a maverick is an independent individual who does not go along with a group or party.

1. Enlightened
   Mean-spirited
2. Brevity
   Lazy

Laconic means using few words to express a detailed and long explanation. Another word to use for laconic is concise.

1. Liberal
   Even-handed
2. Condescending
   Nonsense

Inane is easy to use when talking about things that don't make sense, are silly or lacking significance. For instance, it would be inane to say the film, "Hot Tub Time Machine" is as good as "Gone With The Wind."

1. Any venturesome undertaking especially one with an uncertain outcome.
   An investment that is very risky but could yield great profits
2. Put forward as a guess, in spite of possible refutation
   A & B only

The noun, venture, is a risky undertaking whether the risk be financial or physical. When used as an adjective, it can mean to speculate.

1. Flowery language
   Peaceful mediation
2. Paranoia
   Self sacrifice

Grandiloquence is lofty, extravagant and with a pompous style or manner, which can also be applied to the quality of speaking.

1. A type of aroma.
   A type of punishment with a whip.
2. The name of the pollen in a flower.
   A reprehensible action.

Flagrant means to be conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible. For instance,"Her flagrant disregard for the woman's feelings when criticizing the room made everyone cringe."

1. Leave or exit
   Influence
2. Approach with caution.
   Indulge

Exhort means to try to influence (someone) by words or advice or other means. It is to strongly urge (someone) to do something.

1. Unsettling
   Violent
2. Happy
   Short-lived

Ephemeral has a transitory quality to it, one that is short lived or lasts a short time.

1. Love
   Greed
2. Boastfulness
   Skepticism

Although you may equate cupidity with cupid and love, that's not correct. Cupidity means a strong desire, but it's for possessions or money, which is a greedy quality.

1. A person who brutally or indiscriminately slaughters or murders.
   A person who slaughters certain animals for food or sale.
2. To bungle or botch.
   All of the above.

All of these are correct. It is also correct to use this word to describe a vendor who hawks newspapers, candy, beverages, etc.,on a train, at a stadium, or other public place.

1. More rather than less.
   The same as or equal to.
2. Less rather than more.
   Reduction or subtraction

Congruity is similar to congruent, which is the quality of being the same shape and size. The meaning of congruity in the English language is to agree, or it is something suitable and appropriate.

1. Tickle
   Surprise
2. Cheat
   Sweeten

When you bilk people, you defraud them or cheat them of what is rightfully theirs. For instance, "He bilked the government of almost a million dollars."

1. A very loud, opinionated person.
   A very curvy and sexy woman.
2. An intense need for warmth.
   A shower of compliments.

Someone who is vociferous expresses his or her feeling or opinions in a very loud or forceful way. Debaters, politicians and some leaders have an outspoken or vociferous personality.

1. An automatic response
   Man-made fiber
2. Self-fertilization in plant
   Mindless routines

Autogamy means the self fertilization in plants, or more specifically, fertilization by the union of male and female gametes from the same individual.

1. A person's view, opinion, or judgment.
   The action or process of calculating or estimating something.
2. A bill or account, or its settlement.
   All of them

All three of theses are correct. If it was "the day of reckoning," it would mean the time when one is called to account for one's actions, to pay one's debts, or to fulfill one's promises or obligations.

1. Backpedal
   To give up resistance.
2. To boast.
   To be jealous.

There are two definitions. One is to surrender unconditionally or on stipulated terms, and the second is to give up resistance.

1. Too much hair
   A hairstyle
2. Annoy continually.
   Overly critical

Harry means to harass, annoy or be a nuisance by repeated attacks. It also means to ravage, as in war. We hope you didn't confuse it with "hairy".

1. A useful and desirable thing or quality.
   To officially estimate the value of something as a basis for taxation.
2. The ability or right to approach speak with or gain admittance.
   A farmer's implement

Assess is to value something, whether it be an item or a situation. You may have hesitated when choosing the correct answers since the other definitions were for similar sounding words (access and asset).

1. An article of equipment
   To fulfill or carry out
2. To cry for no reason
   To accuse someone

An article of equipment would be the noun usage of implement. When used as a verb, it means to perform or put into effect.

1. An item is shown for everyone to notice.
   A customs document listing the contents put on a ship or plane.
2. Something that is gorgeous and wonderful.
   Something that is tried and true, or proven.

The verb manifest means to reveal its presence or make an appearance. For example, “The ghost manifests each year on the same day."

1. An elixir created from witchcraft
   An idea, often vague and sometimes fanciful
2. A good work ethic
   A sharp wit

A notion is an idea, often vague and sometimes fanciful. It rhymes with potion but has nothing to do with the word's meaning.

1. An ordered reference standard to measure something.
   The ratio between the size of something and a representation of it.
2. A series of musical notes differing in pitch.
   All of the above

Not just all these answers, but scale also describes a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin, and a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals, to name a few.