Updated BSEP Word Set #4 Exam Study Questions And Verified Answers.

Charge - correct answer (noun def 1) a fee for goods; price, tariff, amount, rate (noun def 2) an accusation; allegation, indictment (verb def 1) to demand an amount; ask, impose, levy (verb def 2) to formally accuse; implicate, blame, prosecute Clerical - correct answer Relating to the clergy (people of the church); ecclesiastical, pastoral, religious, canonical, apostolic, priestly Contrive - correct answer To bring about or create an object/situation with the deliberate use of skills and artifice (deception); engineer, manufacture, orchestrate, create, develop, concoct Eccentric - correct answer Unconventional, odd, and slightly strange; irregular, aberrant, anomalous, peculiar, outlandish, extraordinary Extol - correct answer To praise enthusiastically; acclaim, rave, eulogize Fraught - correct answer 1) Filled with something undesirable; 2) Causing or affected by anxiety or stress; anxious, worried, distraught, overwrought, frantic, distressed Hapless - correct answer Unfortunate; unlucky, luckless, cursed, doomed, ill-fated Imperil - correct answer To put at risk of being harmed, injured, or destroyed; endanger, jeopardize, risk Incendiary - correct answer 1) Designed to catch/cause fire; combustible, flammable 2) Tending to stir up conflict; inflammatory, provocative, subversive Iota - correct answer An extremely small amount; bit, speck, shred, ounce, smidge, fraction, morsel Paraphrase - correct answer (verb) To reword something, especially to achieve greater clarity Rephrase, restate, rehash (noun) A rewording of something written or spoken rendition, restatement, rendering Philanthropist - correct answer A person concerned with promoting the welfare of others; benefactor, humanitarian, donor, contributor, giver Picturesque - correct answer Visually attractive or eye-catching in appearance; beautiful, charming, quaint, vivid, graphic, colorful, striking, impressive Porous - correct answer Not effective or secure / full of holes permeable, penetrable, pervious Predestined - correct answer Determined in advance by fate, fact, or divine will; certainty, destiny, fate, foreordained Putter/Potter - correct answer To move or go in a casual way; loiter, dawdle, meander, stroll, saunter, toddle Sedentary - correct answer Tending to spend much time in the same place; stationary, inactive, still, seated Solace - correct answer (noun) - The comfort given in a time of great stress support, relief, consolation (verb) - To comfort someone console, cheer up, soothe Sprawl - correct answer To spread out over a large space in an untidy or irregular way; drape, flop, spread, stretch, loll, ramble, extend Spry - correct answer Active or lively; sprightly, agile, energetic, spirited, animated, vivacious, robust Stint - correct answer (verb) - To supply a very inadequate amount economize, hold-back, scrimp, begrudge (noun) - A fixed or allotted period of work or responsibility assignment, stretch, spell, period, turn, session, tour Tabloid - correct answer Newspaper (of smaller size, but just as frequently printed), typically containing gossip or sensationalized stories Tenacious - correct answer Not easily dispelled; keeping a firm hold or belief of something; Persistent, relentless, determined, indefatigable, unshakeable, staunch, unwavering, unrelenting, inexorable, insistent Tincture - correct answer (verb) To possess a subtle hint; tinged, imbued (noun) A slight trace of something note, tinge, touch, dash Vacuum - correct answer A space entirely devoid of matter or significance; emptiness, void, nothingness, vacancy, gap, absence, deficiency, lacuna