20. concoct (v.) - A: to make a show of. B: outline. C: invent. D: deceive.
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1. contempt - D: Scorn; disdain; as, "My father had contempt for all poor people." Latin contemptus.
2. melodramatic - D: Overly theatrical; highly emotional; as, his melodramatic act of throwing all his books into the sea. Greek melos (song) and drama.
3. renaissance - D: Rebirth in the arts and learning; as, "The 1920s were the years of Manhattan's black Renaissance." Latin re- (again) and nascere (to be born).
4. innuendo - B: Unpleasant insinuation; as, "The two would fling big words about with swift and punning innuendo." Latin, from innuere (to nod; hint).
5. meager - C: Inadequate; scanty; as, "a meager diet of beef and beans." Latin macer.
6. vespers - B: Church service held in the evening; even- song; as, "The three aging Mexican sisters always invited me to vespers." Middle English (evening star).
7. dire - C: Dreadful; ominous; urgent; as, "a wonderful rhythmical sermon, all moans and shouts and cries and dire pictures of hell." Latin dirus (fearful).
8. personage - D: Important or distinguished person; as, "Some royal personage arrived, a Scandinavian prince..." Latin persona (actor's mask).
10. pretension - B: Insupportable or unfounded claim to a right or distinction; as, "She had great scorn for all pretensions, academic or otherwise." Latin praetendere (to pretend).
11. rollicking - C: Lighthearted; full of high spirits; as, "Shuffle Along was a honey of a show; swift, funny, rollick- ing." Perhaps a blend of English roll and frolic.
12. dialect - A: Local language or speech of a particular group; as, He tried to reproduce their dialect in his writing. Greek dia- (between) and legein (to talk).
13. solicitude - A: Deep concern; thoughtful attention; as, "It was too late in the evening for such solicitude." Latin sollicitudo.
14. amulet - B: A charm; object worn to keep off bad luck, harm and the like; as, "They gave me a little amulet of the Virgin of Guadalupe." Latin amuletum.
15. patronage - C: Sponsorship; clientele; political favors; as, Without black patronage, the small clubs in Harlem failed. Latin patronus (benefactor).
16. grandiloquent - D: Pompous in speaking; as, "He never talks grandiloquently about democracy or Americanism - he lives them with sincerity." Latin grandis (great) and loqui (to speak).
17. millennium - B: Period of joy, peace and prosperity; as, "Some Harlemites thought the millennium had come." Latin mille (thousand) and annus (year).
18. literati - A: Intellectuals; literary or scholarly people; as, "He returned to Harlem to impart his precepts to the literati." Latin.
19. impromptu - C: Improvised; spur of the moment; as, impromptu entertaining. Latin.
20. concoct - C: To invent; make up; contrive; as, "his fabulously concocted stories." Latin concoquere (to boil together).