Chapter 1-20

Question 1

despotic

Answer 1

tyrannical

Question 2

obsequious

Answer 2

attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery

Question 3

blasphemies

Answer 3

act of insulting or showing lack of reverance for god

Question 4

ascendancy

Answer 4

a position of dominant power or influence

Question 5

expatiate

Answer 5

speak/write at length or in detail

Question 6

phial

Answer 6

small bottle for liquids

Question 7

fain

Answer 7

pleased or willing under the circumstances

Question 8

entreaties

Answer 8

earnest or urgent request

Question 9

propitious

Answer 9

likely to have or produce good results

Question 10

prodigious

Answer 10

remarkably great in extent, size, or degree

Question 11

compunction

Answer 11

a feeling of guilt

Question 12

unhampered

Answer 12

not slowed, or blocked or interfered with

Question 13

veritable

Answer 13

being truly or very much so

Question 14

breviary

Answer 14

a roman catholic church book

Question 15

carking

Answer 15

causing distress or worry

Question 16

augury

Answer 16

a sign of what will happen in the future

Question 17

incalculable

Answer 17

not able of being computed or enumerated

Question 18

inert

Answer 18

lacking the ability or strength to move

Question 19

infamy

Answer 19

being well known for some bad quality or deed

Question 20

mephitic

Answer 20

foul smell

Question 21

vexation

Answer 21

anger, by some annoying irritation

Question 22

resplendent

Answer 22

having great beauty and splendor

Question 23

unprepossessing

Answer 23

unfavored or neutral first impression

Question 24

usurper

Answer 24

someone who wrongfully takes someone else’s place

Question 25

cataleptic

Answer 25

a nervous condition from catalepsy

Question 26

friable

Answer 26

easily crumbled

Question 27

tantamount

Answer 27

equal to something

Question 28

interstices

Answer 28

a small space

Question 29

gleaned

Answer 29

extract from various sources

Question 30

instrinsic

Answer 30

belonging to a thing by its very nature

Question 31

imprudence

Answer 31

lacking wisdom or good judgement

Question 32

sanguine

Answer 32

confidently optimistic and cheerful

Question 33

tempestuous

Answer 33

full of strong emotion

Question 34

providence

Answer 34

the protective care of god or of nature as a spiritual power

Question 35

fervently

Answer 35

having or showing very strong feelings

Question 36

aperture

Answer 36

an opening, hole, or gap

Question 37

assiduous

Answer 37

care and persistent effort

Question 38

supplication

Answer 38

ask humbly or earnestly (praying)

Question 39

ineptitude

Answer 39

lack of skill, ability, or compentence

Question 40

pensiveness

Answer 40

dreamily or wistfully thoughtful

Question 41

enumeration

Answer 41

to specify one after another

Question 42

peremptory

Answer 42

insisting on immediate attention or or obedience

Question 43

conjuring

Answer 43

performance of tricks that are “magical”

Question 44

incurred

Answer 44

to have or experience (something unpleasant or unwanted)

Question 45

sepulchral

Answer 45

of or relating to a tomb

Question 46

stratagems

Answer 46

a plan or scheme

Question 47

misanthropy

Answer 47

hatred of mankind

Question 48

repose

Answer 48

be lying, kept, or situated in a particular place

Question 49

dissimulation

Answer 49

the act of decieving

Question 50

excise

Answer 50

remove by erasing or crossing out