As I Lay Dying Set 2

Question 1

Cessation (n)

Answer 1

Ceasing, discontinuance, stoppage; either permanent or temporary.

Question 2

Ubiquity (n)

Answer 2

1. Theology. The omnipresence of Christ in his human nature, as maintained by the ubiquitarians; the doctrine of this omnipresence.
2. As an attribute of an individual person: the ability, or apparent ability, to be everywhere at once; Something encountered everywhere like No.1

Question 3

Fulcrum (n+v)

Answer 3

N.1. Originally: a prop, a support (obsolete). 2. figurative. A crucial or central point or person on which something depends; a person who or thing which crucially affects the activity, development, or course of something.
V. transitive. To provide with a fulcrum or pivot; to cause to turn as if on a pivot.

Question 4

Rubble (v)

Answer 4

1. transitive. To crush to pieces, to smash; to destroy. Obsolete. Rare.
2. intransitive. To poke or crawl about among rubble or rubbish; to rummage. Also figurative.

Question 5

Ammoniac (adj +n)

Answer 5

Adj. Of the nature of ammonia, ammoniacal.

Question 6

Lowing (v)

Answer 6

intransitive. Of a cow or other bovine animal: to make its characteristic deep, resonant vocal sound; to moo. Deep resonant vocal sound.

Question 7

Stertorous (adj)

Answer 7

Characterized by, of the nature of, stertor or snoring

Question 8

Auger (n + v)

Answer 8

N. A carpenter’s hand tool used for boring holes in wood, consisting of a metal shank with a boring device at one end, and a (typically t-shaped) handle at the other; (also) a metal bit attached to a carpenter’s brace.

V. intransitive. To bore into, through, etc., with an auger. Also figurative.

Question 9

Volitional (adj)

Answer 9

Of or belonging to volition; pertaining or relating to the action of willing.

Question 10

Emaciation (n)

Answer 10

The action of emaciating; the process or state of being emaciated; abnormal leanness. Also figurative.