Pro, Con, Pro, Con Trivia Quiz

Answer: Clarify

Confound is to confuse or mix up. To contradict the effect, one must clarify things so they can be understood. Profound is opposite to shallow whether emotionally or physically. Condemn is to sentence to a terrible fate. Provide is to offer provisions in the form of shelter, food, security, etc.

Answer: Admiration

Admiration fits best of these choices. Animosity is hostility. Profuse, not the antonym of confuse, is existing in great amounts, such as profuse perspiration.
Protempt is not a word.

Answer: Retract

To proffer is to offer something, an award, a comment, a gift, a prize for acceptance. Confer is usually to actually place the award, prize or honor upon the recipient. Retract is to take back or withdraw. Acknowledge is to accept as existing, or to recognise. Differ is to not agree.

Answer: Expand

Contract (verb) is to draw together, whether by binding in an agreement or physically in a mass. You can contract to marry someone, squeeze something into a denser form, agree to kill someone for payment. You can contract your brow, a word, to win a hand of bridge, and even a cold. A contract (noun) is usually an agreement terminated by completion or dissolution. In the physical sense expand would be the opposite of contract. Detract is to minimise the good qualities of someone or something.
To protract is to defer, delay, prolong or extend. In a physical sense contract and protract can be opposites, but they are rarely used in other than that reference.
Propound is to offer for discussion, as a theory or idea.
Both contest and protest can mean the same. You can contest the outcome of a protest or vice versa. Contest generally refers to disagreement with a settlement of something, whereas protest generally means to actively disagree during the process of settlement.

Answer: False

To convince (verb) is to offer evidence of the truth of something, whereas province (noun) is a region, parish, state or canton.

Answer: False

Confit (noun) is meat or fowl that has been cooked and prepared in its own fat, such as pork, goose or duck.
Profit (noun or verb) is the net gain from an investment after costs and expenditures have been subtracted from revenue.

Answer: Destruction

Constitution is the basic components of a person, business, society or building, the parts that go into its makeup. In animals it can also be regarded as the state of health of an individual. As a noun it can refer to the laws and tenets of a society whether written or verbal. Destruction or dissolution would be the breakdown of this creation.
Propensity is the tendency for a living being or animate object to have an inclination, such as phototropism in plants or the breaking of rocks into particular patterns, which often resemble the pattern of the source rock.
Prostitution is the selling of sexual or other illicit favors for profit.
Convolution is a natural or unnatural twisting of a part, usually in curved irregular windings. It is also an irregular ridge on the surface of the brain, especially in the cerebellum.

Answer: Deny

To concede is to acknowledge, usually reluctantly or after heavy persuasion. Some synonyms are accept, yield or grant. A game or battle may be conceded when the conceding side realises it cannot win and giving up is better than suffering further losses.
To proceed is to move ahead or continue after a pause. Precede is to occur before another event. Distrust is to not have faith in something or someone.

Answer: Upright

To be procumbent is to lean forward or to lie face down. Concumbent is not a word I can find in my dictionary. Buried is to be placed underground. Elliptical indicates an ovoid shape; it can also mean economy or obscurity in speech or writing.

Answer: Disclaim

To profess is to claim or affirm, to freely declare, whereas confess is much the same but usually implies owning up to a wrongdoing or sin, freely disclosing or giving evidence of an impious or illegal act. To defer is to delay or put off, and convince is to have another person or persons ultimately agree with your reasoning or explanation.