LOF Ch. 1-5

Question 1

decorous

Answer 1

characterized by dignified propriety in conduct, manners, appearance, character, etc.

Question 2

fulcrum

Answer 2

any prop or support.

Question 3

suffuse

Answer 3

to overspread with or as with a liquid, color, etc.

Question 4

immure

Answer 4

to enclose within walls.to shut in; seclude or confine.

Question 5

bastion

Answer 5

a fortified place.

Question 6

gesticulated

Answer 6

to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.

Question 7

errant

Answer 7

journeying or traveling, as a medieval knight in quest of adventure; roving adventurously.

Question 8

ebullience

Answer 8

high spirits; exhilaration; exuberance.

Question 9

recrimination

Answer 9

the act of recriminating, or countercharging:

Question 10

pall

Answer 10

a cloth, often of velvet, for spreading over a coffin, bier, or tomb.

Question 11

inscrutable

Answer 11

incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.

Question 12

vicissitudes

Answer 12

a change or variation occurring in the course of something.

Question 13

susurration

Answer 13

a soft murmur; whisper.

Question 14

sepals

Answer 14

one of the individual leaves or parts of the calyx of a flower.

Question 15

detritus

Answer 15

rock in small particles or other material worn or broken away from a mass, as by the action of water or glacial ice.

Question 16

effigy

Answer 16

a representation or image, especially sculptured, as on a monument.

Question 17

discursive

Answer 17

passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.

Question 18

furtive

Answer 18

sly, shifty, done with stealth