GE Unit I Vocabulary

Question 0

When my (Washings/cleansings) were completed, I was put into clean linen of the stiffest character, like a young Penitent into sackcloth, and was stressed up in my tightest and fearfullest suit.

Answer 0

Ablutions

Question 1

Joe appeared to (predict) the worst.

Answer 1

Augur

Question 2

Buddy was never insulting, or (unpredictable).

Answer 2

Capricious

Question 3

He drew the back of his hand across his nose with his usual (pacifying) air on such occasions.

Answer 3

Conciliatory

Question 4

I extended my (mercy/pity) to Biddy.

Answer 4

Clemency

Question 5

I often served as a (marital) missile

Answer 5

Connubial

Question 6

Noise

Answer 6

Din

Question 7

I sat silent recalling what a (worker) she had been.

Answer 7

Drudge

Question 8

Having a square (impenetrable) bib in front

Answer 8

Impregnable

Question 9

At once ferocious and (over emotional/weepy)

Answer 9

Maudlin

Question 10

Foreseeing the danger of that (troublemaker’s) brushing me with it

Answer 10

Miscreawnt

Question 11

Joe recited this couplet with such manifest pride and careful (articulacy)

Answer 11

Perspicuity

Question 12

They somehow conveyed to me that they were all (fakes)

Answer 12

Toadies

Question 13

I got dressed, darkly wiping my (gory) face at intervals.

Answer 13

Sanguinary

Question 14

The faded (ghost/apparition) in the chair by the dressing-table glass

Answer 14

Specter