Chapter 1

Question 1

assuaged

Answer 1

pacified; made better or lessened

Question 2

apothecary

Answer 2

a person who is entrusted to both prescribe medicine and sell it

Question 3

taciturn

Answer 3

someone who doesn’t say much; almost always silent; uncommunative

Question 4

chattel

Answer 4

all personal property

Question 5

unsullied

Answer 5

free from evil and corrruption

Question 6

dictum

Answer 6

a statement or ruling that is from an official source or that expresses a principle

Question 7

strictures

Answer 7

restrictions or sharp crticism

Question 8

dispatched

Answer 8

sent off quickly

Question 9

ambled

Answer 9

walked in a slow or leisurely way

Question 10

detention

Answer 10

state of being confined or delayed somewhere

Question 11

detachment

Answer 11

seperation

Question 12

repertoire

Answer 12

all the skills or remembered performances of a particular person

Question 13

malevolent

Answer 13

harmful or evil

Question 14

vapid

Answer 14

uninteresting or lacking flavor

Question 15

morbid

Answer 15

of, having, or caused by disease; unhealthy; diseased

Question 16

nocturnal

Answer 16

something that is active or happens during the night

Question 17

stealthy

Answer 17

a person or thing that is quiet and secretive

Question 18

mutilated

Answer 18

injured severely or disfigured, especially by cutting off tissue or body parts

Question 19

prediction

Answer 19

a forecast or prophecy

Question 20

domiciled

Answer 20

resided in a certain place

Question 21

flivver

Answer 21

an automobile, especially one that is small, inexpensive, and old

Question 22

intimidation

Answer 22

an expression of the intent to hurt or punish another

Question 23

nebulous

Answer 23

liable to more than one interpretations

Question 24

transition

Answer 24

process or an instance of passing from one form, state, or stage to another

Question 25

concession

Answer 25

an accommodation made in the light of special or extenuating circumstance