Lesson 7 + 8 (Creature Comforts)

Question 1

domicile

Answer 1

n. a home; residence

Question 2

domestic

Answer 2

adj. related to the family or household
adj. tame; trained to live with humans
adj. indigenous to a particular country; native

Question 3

domain

Answer 3

n. range of one’s control; territory

Question 4

domineer

Answer 4

n. to dominate; to be bossy

Question 5

dominion

Answer 5

n. control; rule; area of influence

Question 6

dormant

Answer 6

adj. asleep; not in an active state

Question 7

somnambulate

Answer 7

v. to walk while sleeping

Question 8

somnolent

Answer 8

adj. drowsy; sleepy

adj. causing sleep

Question 9

ablution

Answer 9

n. washing of the body, especially as a ritual purification

Question 10

deluge

Answer 10

n. a downpour; a great flood

v. to flood

Question 11

divest

Answer 11

v. to take away something belonging to someone, especially a right title or property; to dispossess
v. to strip away, especially clothes

Question 12

investiture

Answer 12

n. a ceremony in which a person formally receives the authority and symbols of an office

Question 13

travesty

Answer 13

n. an absurd or inferior imitation

Question 14

vestment

Answer 14

n. a garment that indicates position or authority, especially the robes worn by clergy

Question 15

vested

Answer 15

adj. a concern for something from which a person expects to get personal benefit (used with “interest”)
adj. dressed, especially in vestments
adj. absolute; without question

Question 16

concoct

Answer 16

v. to mix ingredients in cooking

v. to invent or devise

Question 17

cuisine

Answer 17

n. a characteristic style of cooking

Question 18

precocious

Answer 18

adj. showing unusually early development, especially mentally

Question 19

carnivorous

Answer 19

adj. meat-eating

Question 20

herbivorous

Answer 20

adj. plant-eating

Question 21

voracious

Answer 21

adj. extremely hungry; greedy

adj. eager for some activity or interest

Question 22

mellifluous

Answer 22

adj. sweet as honey (as in voice or words)

Question 23

saline

Answer 23

adj. having to do with salt

Question 24

imbibe

Answer 24

v. to drink

v. to absorb; to take in

Question 25

potable

Answer 25

adj. fit to drink

Question 26

potion

Answer 26

n. a liquid for drinking, especially a medicinal, magic, or poisonous drink

Question 27

allude

Answer 27

v. to make an indirect reference to

Question 28

collusion

Answer 28

n. a secret agreement for a deceitful purpose; conspiracy

Question 29

delusion

Answer 29

n. a false belief or opinion, especially one held in spite of contradictory evidence
n. a deception

Question 30

elude

Answer 30

v. to avoid or escape from by cunning; to evade

v. to escape detection; to baffle