Sound Smart Quiz #5

Possessing or displaying meticulous attention to detail; finicky, particular.

• fastidious
• antidote
• cacophony
• dilettante
• idiosyncratic

An agent or medicine that counteracts something that is poisonous or otherwise harmful.

• antidote
• cacophony
• dilettante
• fastidious
• idiosyncratic

A general sense of unease.

• malaise
• nouveau riche

• precocious

• stoic

• untenable

Displaying or characterized by unusually early development or maturity, especially in intelligence; advanced, smart-alecky.

• precocious
• malaise

• nouveau riche

• stoic

• untenable

Jarring, discordant sound.

• cacophony
• antidote
• dilettante
• fastidious
• idiosyncratic

Characterized by newly acquired wealth, especially when it is flaunted.

• nouveau riche
• malaise

• precocious

• stoic

• untenable

Seemingly indifferent to pleasure and pain; showing little or no emotion.

• stoic
• malaise

• nouveau riche

• precocious

• untenable

Impossible to maintain or defend, as against criticism. Impossible to tolerate or endure; indefensible, flawed.

• untenable
• malaise

• nouveau riche

• precocious

• stoic

Peculiar to a specific individual or group.

• idiosyncratic
• antidote
• cacophony
• dilettante
• fastidious

A person with a superficial interest in an art or field of knowledge; a dabbler; an amature.

• dilettante
• antidote
• cacophony
• fastidious
• idiosyncratic