Love in the time of cholera

Question 1

Reliquary

Answer 1

a container for holy relics.

Question 2

Dissimulation

Answer 2

concealment of one’s thoughts, feelings, or character; pretense.

“he looked at her without dissimulation over the book he pretended to read” (144)

Question 3

Promontory

Answer 3

a point of high land that juts out into a large body of water; a headland.

Question 4

Cornice

Answer 4

an ornamental molding around the wall of a room just below the ceiling.

an overhanging mass of hardened snow at the edge of a mountain precipice.

Question 5

marasmus

Answer 5

general emaciation and wasting, esp of infants, thought to be associated with severe malnutrition or impaired utilization of nutrients.

Question 6

profligate

Answer 6

recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources.

Question 7

Ineluctable

Answer 7

Unable to be resisted or avoided, inescapable

Question 8

Internecine

Answer 8

Destructive to both sides in a battle

Question 9

Declamatory

Answer 9

Vehement or passionate in expression

Question 10

Plenitude

Answer 10

An abundance

Question 11

Arpeggio

Answer 11

The notes of a chord played in succession

Question 12

Pallor

Answer 12

An unhealthy pale appearance

Question 13

Redolent

Answer 13

1) strongly reminiscent or suggestive of
2) flagrant or sweet smelling

Question 14

Ignoble

Answer 14

1. Not honorable in character or purpose
2. Of humble origin or social status