As I Lay Dying Set 3

Question 1

Emaciated (adj)

Answer 1

Made lean, atrophied. Also figurative.

Question 2

Surreptitious (adj)

Answer 2

Obtained by ‘surreption’, suppression of the truth, or fraudulent misrepresentation: Taken, obtained, used, done, etc. by stealth, secretly, or ‘on the sly’; secret and unauthorized; clandestine.

Question 3

Cattymount = Catamount (n)

Answer 3

common name in U.S. of the puma or cougar ( Felis concolor), also called Panther, Painter, and Mountain (or American) Lion.

Question 4

Soporific (adj +n)

Answer 4

Adj. Inducing or tending to induce sleep; causing a person to sleep or slumber.
N. A substance, esp. a medicament, which induces sleep.

Question 5

Uninferant (adj)

Answer 5

From which an inference is unable to be made.

Question 6

Scoriation (n) Obselete –> Excoriation (n)

Answer 6

Obselete –> Excoriation (n): The action of excoriating; the state of being excoriated

Question 7

Repudiant (adj)

Answer 7

Characterized by repudiation; - repudiative (adj)

Question 8

Repudiative (adj)

Answer 8

Of or relating to repudiation; characterized by repudiation or rejection (of something).

Question 9

Moil (v)

Answer 9

1. To make wet

2. To defile transitive. figurative.

Question 10

Moiling (adj +n)

Answer 10

Adj. That moils; labouring, toiling; fatiguing, toilsome; turbulent.
N. Toil, hard work, drudgery; worry, distress, restlessness; stirring about, turmoil, turbulent motion. Also with about.