Chapter 1

Question 1

Assuaged

Answer 1

1. Make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense.

2. Satisfy (an appetite or desire).

Question 2

Apothecary

Answer 2

1. A person who prepared and sold medicines and drugs.

Question 3

Taciturn

Answer 3

1. (Of a person) reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little.

Question 4

Chattel

Answer 4

1. (In general use) a personal possession.

Question 5

Unsullied

Answer 5

1. Not spoiled or made impure.

Question 6

Dictum

Answer 6

1. A formal pronouncement from an authoritative source.

2. A short statement that expresses a general truth or principle.

Question 7

Strictures

Answer 7

1. A restriction on a person or activity.

2. A sternly critical or censorious remark or instruction.

Question 8

Dispatched

Answer 8

1. Send off to a destination or for a purpose.

2. Deal with (a task, problem, or opponent) quickly and efficiently.

Question 9

Ambled

Answer 9

1. Walk or move at a slow, relaxed pace.

Question 10

Detention

Answer 10

1. The action of detaining someone or the state of being detained in official custody, especially as a political prisoner.
2. The punishment of being kept in school after hours

Question 11

Detachment

Answer 11

1. The state of being objective or aloof.

2. A group of troops, aircraft, or ships sent away on a separate mission.

Question 12

Repertoire

Answer 12

1. A stock of plays, dances, or pieces that a company or a performer knows or is prepared to perform.
2. The whole body of items that are regularly performed.
3. A stock of skills or types of behavior that a person habitually uses.

Question 13

Malevolet

Answer 13

1. Having or showing a wish to do evil to others

Question 14

Vapid

Answer 14

1. Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging.

Question 15

Morbid

Answer 15

1. Characterized by or appealing to an abnormal and unhealthy interest in disturbing and unpleasant subjects, especially death and disease.
2. Of the nature of or indicative of disease.

Question 16

Nocturnal

Answer 16

1. Done, occurring, or active at night.

Question 17

Stealthy

Answer 17

1. Behaving, done, or made in a cautious and surreptitious manner, so as not to be seen or heard.

Question 18

Mutilated

Answer 18

1. Inflict a violent and disfiguring injury on.

2. Inflict serious damage on.

Question 19

Predilection

Answer 19

1. A preference or special liking for something; a bias in favor of something.

Question 20

Domiciled

Answer 20

1. Treat a specified country as a permanent home.

Question 21

Filvver

Answer 21

1. A cheap car or aircraft, especially one in bad condition.

Question 22

Imtimidation

Answer 22

1. The action of intimidating someone, or the state of being intimidated.

Question 23

Nebulous

Answer 23

1. In the form of a cloud or haze; hazy.

Question 24

Transition

Answer 24

1. The process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another.

Question 25

Consession

Answer 25

1. A thing that is granted, especially in response to demands; a thing conceded.