chapter 1

Question 1

assuage

Answer 1

make less intense.

Question 2

seldom

Answer 2

rarely

Question 3

pass and punt

Answer 3

to pass (something, such as a problem) to someone else.

Question 4

creeks up the creek

Answer 4

be in severe difficulty or trouble, especially with no means of extricating oneself from it.

Question 5

methodists

Answer 5

a member of a Christian Protestant denomination originating in the 18th-century evangelistic movement of Charles and John Wesley and George Whitefield.

Question 6

brethren

Answer 6

people belonging to a particular group.

Question 7

thence

Answer 7

as a consequence.

Question 8

strictures

Answer 8

a restriction on a person or activity.

Question 9

customary

Answer 9

according to the customs or usual practices associated with a particular society, place, or set of circumstances.

Question 10

homestead

Answer 10

a house, especially a farmhouse, and outbuildings.

Question 11

blacksmith

Answer 11

a person who makes and repairs things in iron by hand.

Question 12

mare

Answer 12

a female horse or other equine animal especially when fully mature or of breeding age.

Question 13

sagged

Answer 13

sink, subside, or bulge downwards under weight or pressure or through lack of strength.

Question 14

presence

Answer 14

the state or fact of existing, occurring, or being present.

Question 15

puny

Answer 15

small and weak.

Question 16

disgrace

Answer 16

loss of reputation or respect as the result of a dishonourable action

Question 17

mutilated

Answer 17

to damage something severely, especially by violently removing a part

Question 18

malevolent phantom

Answer 18

Desiring to do harm, an active desire to be malicious towards someone or somethin