George Tudor

Question 1

Inchmeal

Answer 1

By inches, little by little

Question 2

Censorious

Answer 2

Severely critical of others

Question 3

Eudaemonia

Answer 3

Good spirit, conducive to happiness, welfare

Question 4

Chaffer

Answer 4

Haggle or bargain about the agreement and price of something. Old and Middle English and Norse.

Question 5

Pellucid

Answer 5

easily understood, clear, translucently clear

Question 6

Vitiate

Answer 6

Spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of something

Question 7

incondite

Answer 7

badly put together, badly constructed crude, e.g. incondite prose.

Question 8

Chiliad

Answer 8

a group of a thousand things

Question 9

Peripeteia

Answer 9

a sudden change of circumstances or reversal of fortune especially in a literary work’s narrative

Question 10

Habiliment

Answer 10

clothing

Question 11

Dubitability, Dubitable

Answer 11

A belief or conclusion open to doubt

Question 12

Indubitably

Answer 12

Impossible, no doubt, unquestionably

Question 13

concomitant

Answer 13

A phenomenon that naturally accompanies or follows something.

Question 14

Circumspect

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Wary and unwilling to take risks, cautious.

Question 15

Sublime

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Of great excellence or beauty. Exalted, supreme.

Question 16

Rectitude

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Morally correct behaviour of thinking, righteousness

Question 17

Apophthegm

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A concise saying or maxim; an aphorism.
“the apophthegm ‘tomorrow is another day’”

Question 18

Hagiography

Answer 18

A hagiography (/ˌhæɡiˈɒɡrəfi/; from Ancient Greek ἅγιος, hagios ‘holy’, and -γραφία, -graphia ‘writing’)[1] is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader, as well as, by extension, an adulatory and idealized biography of a founder, saint, monk, nun or icon in any of the world’s religions.

Question 19

Flocculent

Answer 19

Having or resembling tufts of wool

Question 20

Kennings

Answer 20

A kenning (Modern Icelandic: [cʰɛnːiŋk]) is a figure of speech in the type of circumlocution, a compound that employs figurative language in place of a more concrete single-word noun. Kennings are strongly associated with Old Norse-Icelandic and Old English poetry. They continued to be a feature of Icelandic poetry (including rímur) for centuries, together with the closely related heiti.

Oar-steed = ship

Question 21

Encaustic

Answer 21

Encaustic is an ancient painting method in which wax and pigment are fused onto a surface with heat.