Cane Set 1

Question 1

Agrarian (adj)

Answer 1

Of, relating to, or concerned with landed property and the rights and issues associated with it, as its allocation, ownership, distribution, enclosure, etc.

Question 2

Aughts (n)

Answer 2

1. Estimation, value; opinion; reputation. Also: deliberation, council.
2. A nought, zero.

Question 3

Polemic (adj + n)

Answer 3

Adj. Of the nature of, exhibiting, given to, or relating to dispute or controversy; contentious, disputatious, combative
N. A controversial argument; a strong verbal or written attack on a person, opinion, doctrine, etc.

Question 4

Milieu (n)

Answer 4

1. An environment; surroundings, esp. social surroundings.

2. A group of people with a shared (cultural) outlook; a social class or set.

Question 5

Analogous (adj)

Answer 5

Characterized by correspondence to; resembling, or bearing comparison with; parallel, equivalent; comparable, similar.

Question 6

Basal (adj )

Answer 6

Pertaining to, situated at, or forming the base.

Question 7

Drouth/Drought (n)

Answer 7

The condition or quality of being dry; dryness, aridity, lack of moisture.

Question 8

Profligate (adj +n +v)

Answer 8

Adj. Overthrown, routed, as a past participle of verb form. 2. Given to or characterized by licentiousness; debauched. Wasteful with money.
N. A profligate person.
V. transitive. To ruin, destroy. Obsolete. Rare. Also to expend or waste.

Question 9

Domicile (n +v)

Answer 9

N. A place of residence or ordinary habitation; a dwelling-place, abode; a house or home. Also transferred the dwelling-place of an animal, and figurative.
V. transitive. To establish in a domicile or fixed residence; to settle in a home.

Question 10

Cloine/Cloyne (v)

Answer 10

transitive. To take cunningly, furtively, or fraudulently; to grab. To cheat/deceive.