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USURP
(a) To climb upon
(b) To yield
(c) To seize power or position illegally
(d) To demand unlawfully high interest on a loan

ENSCONCE
(a) To promote
(b) To surround
(c) To settle comfortably
(d) To honour

CHAUVINISM
(a) Blind patriotism
(b) Defeatism
(c) Political trickery
(d) Obstinacy

FLAGRANT
(a) Scandalous bad
(b) Widely scattered
(c) Particularly
(d) Poisonous

TRANSGRESS
(a) To convert
(b) To insult
(c) To violate
(d) To hand over possession to another

FACADE
(a) Front of a building
(b) Haughtiness
(c) Complexity
(d) Hypocrisy

PALL
(a) To anger
(b) To frighten
(c) To become boring
(d) To darken

SPLEEN
(a) Surface
(b) Lustre
(c) Bad temper
(d) Smoothness

SWATHE
(a) To soothe
(b) To wrap
(c) To sweep
(d) To wash

COUNTERVAILING
(a) Argumentative
(b) Compensating
(c) Crying
(d) Complaining

TO DEBILITATE
(a) To outlaw
(b) To support
(c) To weaken
(d) To honour

FERRET
(a) Steal
(b) Search
(c) Forget
(d) Fight

PECUNIARY
(a) Pertaining to money
(b) Pertaining to politics
(c) Pertaining to Geography
(d) Pertaining to History

REPRISAL
(a) Loneliness
(b) Retaliation
(c) Remuneration
(d) Pleasure

PROPRIETY
(a) Rightness
(b) Brand name
(c) Cultivate land
(d) Market share

CAVIL
(a) To play
(b) To complain
(c) To prepare
(d) To cut a joke

SLOTHFUL
(a) Fraught with risk
(b) Lazy
(c) Revengeful
(d) Lenient

PREPOSTEROUS
(a) Predefined
(b) Obvious
(c) Absurd
(d) Arduous