June 7

Question 1

scant

Answer 1

(skænt)
adj
1. scarcely sufficient; limited: he paid her scant attention.
2. (prenominal) slightly short of the amount indicated; bare: a scant ten inches.

Question 2

snoop

Answer 2

(snuːp)
vb
(intr; often foll by about or around) to pry into the private business of others

Question 3

truce

Answer 3

A temporary cessation or suspension of hostilities by agreement of the opposing sides; an armistice.

Question 4

thorn

Answer 4

1. (Botany) a sharp pointed woody extension of a stem or leaf.

Question 5

disdain

Answer 5

To consider or reject (doing something) as beneath oneself

a feeling or show of superiority and dislike; contempt; scorn

Question 6

prune

Answer 6

The partially dried fruit of any of several varieties of the common plum

Question 7

cackle

Answer 7

1. To make the shrill (high-pitched) cry characteristic of a hen after laying an egg.
2. To laugh or talk in a shrill manner.

Question 8

compel

Answer 8

To force (a person) to do something; drive or constrain

Question 9

bodice

Answer 9

1. The fitted part of a dress that extends from the waist to the shoulder.
2. A woman’s laced outer garment, worn like a vest over a blouse.
3. Obsolete A corset.

Question 10

basin

Answer 10

(bā′sĭn)
n.
1.
a. An open, shallow, usually round container used especially for holding liquids.

Question 11

trice

Answer 11

(traɪs)

n.
a very short time; an instant: in a trice.

Question 12

daunt

Answer 12

To lessen the courage or resolution of; dishearten or intimidate: Dogged by sickness, daunted by the continuing economic downturn, he continued to fall behind” (Brooks D. Simpson).