Deck W

Question 1

bemuted

Answer 1

dung spattered from above

The Highlander sits bemuted in the driveway.

Question 2

lotus

Answer 2

the mythical greek fruit causing forgetfulness of duty and torpor

It seems to me that the liberal college students have eaten too much of the lotus of easy peace and privilege provided by this brave nation.

Question 3

torpor

Answer 3

mental and physical lethargy

The Phoenix Torpor strikes when the temperature reaches 112 degrees.

Question 4

fasces

fass sees

Answer 4

a bundle of rods with an axe as a symbol of magistrate’s penal power and carried by his licters

The modern fasces appears to me to be a fat wallet.

Question 5

ontological emptiness

Answer 5

the lack of meaning or reason in something

The word Democracy is currently suffering from ontological emptiness, as the government no longer represents the peoples will.

Question 6

egalitarianism

Answer 6

the belief that all should be politically and economically equal

Communism is the egalitarianism of the masses, with the upper classes feeding off their work; ergo rules for thee but not for me.

Question 7

Machiavellian

Answer 7

the ends justify any means necessary
The Democratic Party is a Machiavellian machine.

Question 8

malfeasance

Answer 8

an illegal or immoral act by an elected official

Cheatle, the head of the Secret Service, is guilty of gross malfeasance.

Question 9

malum in se

Answer 9

“wrong in itself” ie doing or saying something that is clearly morally wrong

Abortion is simply malum in se.

Question 10

hygeiolatry

Answer 10

health fanaticism

The hygeiolatry of Californians was quickly undone by their lemming like acceptance of Covid vaccines.

Question 11

aberration

Answer 11

deviation or deviants from truth or moral standards

Palestinian Protesters who support the rapes and murders of October 7th are an aberration.

Question 12

abattoir

Answer 12

Slaughterhouse
We can never forget the six million Jews led to the abattoirs of the concentration camps.

Question 13

inchoate

Answer 13

imperfectly formulated

The inchoate plans for Biden were starkly revealed at the debate.

Question 14

expiate

Answer 14

to make amends

We must expiate our sins, by asking for forgiveness, and then moving on and doing better.

Question 15

stygian

Answer 15

eerie and pitch black

The Aztecs stood horrified in the stygian darkness of the eclipse.

Question 16

esbat

ez baht

Answer 16

a meeting of witches

The esbat proclaimed MacBeth to be King.

Question 17

nodus

Answer 17

a difficulty or problem

This nodus is preventing further progress.

Question 18

confute

Answer 18

to prove a person or theory wrong

The flat spiral galaxy velocity curves confute the notion that all matter is visible.

Question 19

famulus

Answer 19

an assistant to a scholar

The Chess Champion, Mirko, was a famulus of the parson.

Question 20

artless

Answer 20

without skill or finesse

Kamala is artless in her pursuit of the Presidency.

Question 21

his blinkered brain

Answer 21

a shallow, myopic person
He had only one talent in his blinkered brain.

Question 22

intellectual inertia

Answer 22

ponderous thinking

Kamala’s intellectual inertia is stultifying.

Question 23

expostulation

Answer 23

strong protesting demands

Despite their expostulations, the Greenies sitting in the middle of the highway were hauled off by their hair.

Question 24

rebuke

Answer 24

to express strong disapproval of someone d/t their actions

The Olympic Transvestite boxer was rebuked by the entire world for beating up the Woman’s Top Contender.

Question 25

satyagraha
sah TEE yah grah hah

Answer 25

passive disobedience

Gandhi perfected the technique of satyagraha.

Question 26

imprecation

Answer 26

a curse spoken outloud

The conservative driver hurled imprecations after being cut off by the reckless driver in his Little Shitty Car.

Question 27

rathe

Answer 27

prompt or quick or early

In the rathe morning hours of Summer, the City sat hushed by a dense, freezing fog, taunting anyone to come outside.

Question 28

quaesitum

kwhy zay tum

Answer 28

The answer to problem

Einstein realized the quaesitum to the problem was the constant speed of light in vacuo.

Question 29

vulnerary

Answer 29

a sauve to heal wounds

We applied the vulnerary, silvadene, to the third degree burn.