Altiplano, Edifice, Anoxia, Aetiology

Question 1

noun

a raised platform, as at the front of a room, for a lectern, throne, seats of honor, etc.

Answer 1

Dais

Question 2

noun
any tube, canal, pipe, or conduit by which a fluid, air, or other substance is conducted or conveyed.
Anatomy, Zoology. a tube, canal, or vessel conveying a body fluid, especially a glandular secretion or excretion.
Botany. a cavity or vessel formed by elongated cells or by many cells.
Electricity. a single enclosed runway for conductors or cables.
verb (used with object)
to convey or channel by means of a WORD.
Heat from the oven is WORDED to the outside.

Answer 2

Duct

Question 3

noun
untruthfulness; tendency to lie.
an instance of lying; falsehood.

Answer 3

Mendacity

Question 4

adjective
having, inclined to have, or characterized by lascivious or lustful thoughts, desires, etc.
causing lasciviousness or lust.
having a restless desire or longing.

Answer 4

Prurient

Question 5

noun
incomprehensible speech in an imaginary language, sometimes occurring in a trance state, an episode of religious ecstasy, or schizophrenia.

Answer 5

Glossolalia

Question 6

verb
to divide or distribute by share or portion; distribute or parcel out; apportion:
to WORD the available farmland among the settlers.
to appropriate for a special purpose:
to WORD money for a park.
to assign as a portion; set apart; dedicate.

Answer 6

Allot -> Allotment(noun)

Question 7

noun
Architecture.
a light structure on a dome or roof, serving as a belfry, lantern, or belvedere.
a dome, especially one covering a circular or polygonal area.
any of various domelike structures.

Answer 7

Cupola

Question 8

verb (used with object)
to ask (a person) earnestly; beseech; implore; beg:

verb (used without object)
to make an earnest request or petition.

Answer 8

Entreat

Question 9

noun

The process of growing old; aging.

Answer 9

Senescence

Question 10

adjective
taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret:
sly; shifty:

Answer 10

Furtive

Question 11

verb
to twist and compress, or compress without twisting, in order to force out water or other liquid (often followed by out):

Answer 11

Wring

Question 12

noun
the purity of a color, or its freedom from white or gray.
intensity of distinctive hue; saturation of a color.

Answer 12

Chroma

Question 13

noun and verb

a feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment or humiliation.

Answer 13

Chagrin

Question 14

adjective
shortened and detached when played or sung:
characterized by performance in which the notes are abruptly disconnected:
composed of or characterized by abruptly disconnected elements; disjointed:

Answer 14

Staccato

Question 15

adjective
intended for instruction; instructive:
inclined to teach or lecture others too much:
teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson.

Answer 15

Didactic

Question 16

noun

a wasteful person; spendthrift:

Answer 16

Wastrel

Question 17

noun
waste matter; refuse.
Metallurgy. a waste product taken off molten metal during smelting, essentially metallic in character.

Answer 17

Dross

Question 18

noun
a building, especially one of large size or imposing appearance.
any large, complex system or organization.

Answer 18

Edifice

Question 19

noun
Pathology.
the study of the causes of diseases.
the cause or origin of a disease.
the study of causation.
any study of causes, causation, or causality, as in philosophy, biology, or physics.

Answer 19

Etiology / Aetiology

Question 20

noun

Geology. an elevated terrace or plateau sculptured by periglacial geomorphic processes.

Answer 20

Altiplano

Question 21

noun
Biology. the absence of oxygen, as in an organic environment:
the simulation of aquatic WORD in the laboratory.
Pathology. the absence or near absence of oxygen in the body tissues; severe hypoxia:
Metabolism came to an irreversible standstill during prolonged WORD.

Answer 21

Anoxia, Hypoxia is similar, but instead abnormally low oxygen instead of none, or nearly none.