Lighthouse set 4

Question 1

Revelry (n)

Answer 1

The action or an act of revelling; boisterous mirth or merrymaking; (also in plural) lively entertainments; wild or noisy festivities, esp. those involving drinking.

Question 2

Graving (n)

Answer 2

1. Digging or Burial
2. Carving
3. The action of graving, scraping the bottom of a boat with tar.

Question 3

Crepuscular (adj)

Answer 3

Of or pertaining to twilight, resembling it.

Question 4

Asperity (n)

Answer 4

Unevenness of surface, roughness, ruggedness; concrete in plural sharp, rough, or rugged excrescences.

Question 5

Quiescence (n)

Answer 5

The state or condition of being quiescent; quietness, stillness; inactivity, dormancy; an instance of this. Also: the action of making quiet or calm.

Question 6

Acquiescent (adj +n)

Answer 6

Adj. Of the nature of or characterized by acquiescence; (of a person) disposed to acquiesce; ready to accept something without protest, or to do what someone else wants. N. A person who acquiesces; one who accepts something without protest, or does what someone else wants.

Question 7

Jocundity (n):

Answer 7

Jocund quality or condition; mirthfulness, gaiety; mirth, merriment, glee. Or an action of this.

Question 8

Akimbo (adv +adj)

Answer 8

Adv. With reference to (other) limbs, esp. the legs: spread or flung out widely or haphazardly.
Adj. Crooked, bent, or askew; that is in disorder, awry.

Question 9

Behove (v)

Answer 9

1. To be morally needful or requisite to; to be incumbent, proper, or due.
2. To befit, be due to; to belong, pertain, suit.

Question 10

Revivication = revivification (n)

Answer 10

Restoration or return to life from death; an instance of this.