Henry Tudor

Question 1

Cerulean

Answer 1

Also spelled caerulean, is a shade of blue ranging between azure and a darker sky blue.

The first recorded use of cerulean as a colour name in Englishwas in 1590.[1] The word is derived from the Latin word caeruleus, “dark blue, blue, or blue-green”, which in turn probably derives from caerulum, diminutive of caelum, “heaven, sky”.[2]

Question 2

Orgulous

Answer 2

1.(foll by of, an infinitive, or a clause)
pleased or satisfied, as with oneself, one’s possessions, achievements, etc, or with another person, his or her achievements, qualities, etc
2.feeling honoured or gratified by or as if by some distinction
3.having an inordinately high opinion of oneself; arrogant or haughty

Question 3

sacerdotal

Answer 3

adjective
relating to priests or the priesthood; priestly.
THEOLOGY
relating to or denoting a doctrine which ascribes sacrificial functions and spiritual or supernatural powers to ordained priests.

Question 4

Sophistry

plural noun: sophistries

Answer 4

The use of clever but false arguments, especially with the intention of deceiving.
“trying to argue that I had benefited in any way from the disaster was pure sophistry”
a fallacious argument.
plural noun: sophistries

Question 5

Declivity

Answer 5

An area that is lower than surrounding areas:
‘At the bottom of the field was a wooded declivity’.

If you’re standing at the top of a hill looking down to the bottom, you’re staring down a declivity, a downward slope of any kind.

The word declivity comes from the Latin words de, which means “down,” and clivus, which means “slope.” If you’re at the bottom of the hill looking up, you’ll see the opposite of a declivity. From that position you’ll be looking at an acclivity, an upward slope.

Question 6

Ostensible

Answer 6

1. Apparent, evident; meant for open display.
2. Appearing as such; being such in appearance; professed, supposed (rather than demonstrably true or real). ‘The ostensible reason for his visit to New York was to see his mother, but the real reason was to get to the Yankees game the next day’.

Question 7

Semiotics

Answer 7

Semiotics (also called semiotic studies) is the study of sign process (semiosis), which is any form of activity, conduct, or any process that involves signs, including the production of meaning. A sign is anything that communicates a meaning, that is not the sign itself, to the interpreter of the sign.

Question 8

Glyptic

Answer 8

Of or concerning carving or engraving.
‘In Naples, Sir William Hamilton collected an extraordinary range of vases, bronze and marble statuary, glass, gems, jewellery, and glyptic art.’

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Origin
Early 19th century from French glyptique or Greek gluptikos, from gluptēs ‘carver’, from gluphein ‘carve’.

Question 9

Cogitable

Answer 9

Able to be grasped by the mind, conceivable.

Question 10

Eudemonism

Answer 10

A system of ethics that bases moral value on the likelihood that good actions will produce happiness

Question 11

Inamorata

Answer 11

A person’s female lover

Question 12

Frowsy

Answer 12

Scruffy and neglected in appearance

Question 13

sal volatile

/ˌsal vəˈlatɪli/

Answer 13

noun

1. a scented solution of ammonium carbonate in alcohol, used as smelling salts.

Question 14

Fugacious

Answer 14

Tending to disappear, fleeting

She was acutely conscious of her fugacious youth

Question 15

Boondoggle

Answer 15

A boondoggle is a project that is considered a waste of both time and money, yet is often continued due to extraneous policy or political motivations.

an unnecessary, wasteful, or fraudulent project.
he characterized the defense program as an unworkable boondoggle

Question 16

Event Horizon

Answer 16

It is defined as “the point of no return”, i.e., the point at which the gravitational pull becomes so great as to make escape impossible

Question 17

Oxymoron

Answer 17

A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear. Faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.

One oxymoron example is “deafening silence,” which describes a silence that is so overpowering it almost feels deafening, or extremely loud—just as an actual sound would. Oxymorons are often used in everyday conversation and in a breadth of writing, such as literature, poetry, and songwriting.22 Jul 2019

Question 18

Germane

Answer 18

relevant to a subject under consideration i.e. It was germane to the discussion on penguins

Question 19

Catch Fart

Answer 19

A footboy; so called from such servants

commonly following close behind their master or mistress.

Question 20

Usufruct

Answer 20

Usufruct (/ˈjuːzjuːfrʌkt/)[1] is a limited real right (or in rem right) found in civil-law and mixed jurisdictions that unites the two property interests of usus and fructus:

Usus (use) is the right to use or enjoy a thing possessed by another, directly and without altering it. Roman Law

Fructus (fruit, in a figurative sense) is the right to derive profit from a thing possessed: for instance, by selling crops, leasing immovables or annexed movables, taxing for entry, and so on.

Question 21

Petrichor

Answer 21

Is the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil. The word is constructed from Greek petra, “rock”

Question 22

Consanguinity

Answer 22

A person descended from the same ancestor as others.

Question 23

Vespertine

Answer 23

Relating to or occurring in the evening

Question 24

Cachinnate

Answer 24

To laugh loudly in an unrestrained way

Question 25

Apodictic

Answer 25

Clearly established or beyond dispute

Question 26

Stridulate

Answer 26

Insects making a shrill sound by rubbing lega, wings or other parts of their bodies

Question 27

Grandiloquent

Answer 27

Pompous or extravagant in language, style or manner, talking to impress.

Question 28

Touchstone

Answer 28

A piece of fine grained schist or jasper formally used for testing alloys of gold, by observing the colour of the mark which they made on it

Question 29

Cant

Answer 29

The jargon or language of a group, often employed to exclude or mislead people outside the group. A secret language to belittle, exclude or degrade others not of the religion, group or clique.

Question 30

Koan

Answer 30

A paradoxical anecdote or riddle. Used in Zen to provoke great doubt and test a student’s progress.

Question 31

Palliate

Answer 31

To make less severe without removing the cause.

Question 32

Propinquity

Answer 32

The state of being close to someone or something i.e. in physical proximity

Question 33

Progressionist

Answer 33

1. Biology - a supporter of the theory that all life forms gradually evolve to a higher form.

2. An advocate of or believer in political or social progress.

Question 34

Tergiversate

Answer 34

1. make conflicting or evasive statements; equivocate.”the more she tergiversated, the greater grew the ardency of the reporters for an interview”

2. 
change one’s loyalties; abandon a belief or principle.

Question 35

Cat’s Paw

Answer 35

A person used by another, to carry out an unpleasant, dangerous or treacherous act or task

Question 36

Metanoia

Answer 36

A complete change of heart or mind in one’s life, possibly of a spiritual or penitent nature