#3

Question 1

Wainscot

Answer 1

The lower three or four feet of an interior wall when finished differently from the remainder of the wall

Question 2

Artifice

Answer 2

False or insincere behavior

Question 3

Garret

Answer 3

A room or unfinished part of a house just under the roof

Question 4

Belle Époque

Answer 4

A period of high artistic or cultural development

Question 5

Simulacrum

Answer 5

Image, representation

Question 6

Gristle

Answer 6

Tough cartilaginous, tendinous, or fibrous matter especially in table meat

Question 7

Harpsichord

Answer 7

A stringed instrument resembling a piano but with two keyboards and strings plucked by leather or quill points

Question 8

Yarrow

Answer 8

A composite plant having fern like leaves and flat-topped clusters of whitish flowers

Question 9

Gherkin

Answer 9

A small prickly plant used for pickling

Question 10

Posthole

Answer 10

To sink one’s legs deep in snow while walking

Question 11

Runnels

Answer 11

A small channel, as for water

Question 12

Concertina wire

Answer 12

Wire with razor-sharp edges, placed in coils as a barrier

Question 13

Beleaguered

Answer 13

Surrounded or overburdened by troubles

Question 14

Plangent

Answer 14

Resounding loudly, especially with plaintive sound, as a bell

Question 15

Invariably

Answer 15

Always, without exception

Question 16

Howitzer

Answer 16

A cannon with a short barrel, used especially for firing shells at a high angle of elevation

Question 17

Pollard

Answer 17

A tree cut back nearly to the trunk, so as to produce a dense mass of foliage

Question 18

Quatrefoil

Answer 18

An ornamental design of four lobes used in architecture

Question 19

Cruciform

Answer 19

Being in the shape of a cross

Question 20

Indefatigable

Answer 20

Incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue, untiring

Question 21

Plaintive

Answer 21

Expressive of suffering or sorrow