Deck 10

Question 0

Plaintive

Answer 0

Expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful

Question 1

Forlorn

Answer 1

Unhappy or miserable, as in feeling, condition, or appearance
Lonely and sad; forsaken; hopeless

Question 2

Threnody

Answer 2

A poem, speech, or song of lamentation, especially for the dead; dirge; funeral song

Question 3

Untoward

Answer 3

Unfavorable or unfortunate; improper

Question 4

Renitent

Answer 4

Resisting pressure

Persistently opposing; recalcitrant

Question 5

Curt

Answer 5

Rudely brief in speech or abrupt in manner

Brief; concise; terse; laconic

Question 6

Penultimate

Answer 6

Next to last

Question 7

Recreant

Answer 7

Cowardly or craven

Unfaithful, disloyal, or traitorous

Question 8

Trepidation

Answer 8

Tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation

Trembling or quivering movement; tremor

Question 9

Fealty

Answer 9

Fidelity; faithfulness

Question 10

Discursive

Answer 10

Passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling
Proceeding by reasoning or argument

Question 11

Expatiate

Answer 11

To enlarge in discourse or writing; be copious in description or discussion
To move or wander about intellectually, imaginatively, without restraint

Question 12

Sojourn

Answer 12

A temporary stay

Question 13

Stultify

Answer 13

To make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous
To render absurdly or wholly futile or ineffectual, especially by degrading or frustrating means
To allege or prove to be of an unsound mind

Question 14

Vitiate

Answer 14

To impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil
To impair or weaken the effectiveness of
To debase; corrupt; pervert
To make legally defective or invalid; invalidate

Question 15

Adage

Answer 15

A traditional saying expressing a common experience or observation; proverb

Question 16

Aphorism

Answer 16

A terse saying embodying a general truth, or astute observation

Question 17

Apothegm

Answer 17

A short, pithy, instructive saying; a terse remark or aphorism