LT word catcher

Question 1

confound

Answer 1

to make someone confused.

Question 2

impression

Answer 2

an especially marked and often favorable influence or effect on feeling, sense, or mind

Question 3

uppermost

Answer 3

situated in the highest or most prominent position

Question 4

hindquarters

Answer 4

one side of the back half of the carcass of a quadruped including a leg and usually one or more ribs

Question 5

cat walk

Answer 5

a narrow walkway

Question 6

wispy

Answer 6

thin or weak

Question 7

hell hound

Answer 7

a dog represented in mythology as a guardian of the underworld

Question 8

skidding

Answer 8

the act of skidding : SLIP, SIDESLIP

Question 9

hazy

Answer 9

made dim or cloudy by or as if by fine dust, smoke, or light vapor in the air : obscured by or as if by haze (see HAZE entry 1 sense 1a)

Question 10

grimaced

Answer 10

to distort one’s face in an expression usually of pain, disgust, or disapproval

Question 11

misnomer

Answer 11

: the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument
: a use of a wrong or inappropriate name
Nowadays it is a misnomer to call a farmer a peasant.

Question 12

pursed

Answer 12

a receptacle (such as a pouch) shaped like a purse

Question 13

prophecy

Answer 13

a prediction of something to come

Question 14

zephyr

Answer 14

1
a
: a breeze from the west
b
: a gentle breeze
2
: any of various lightweight fabrics and articles of clothing

Question 15

solstice

Answer 15

1
: either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21
2
: the time of the sun’s passing a solstice which occurs about June 21 to begin summer in the northern hemisphere and about December 21 to begin winter in the northern hemisphere

Question 16

temperamental

Answer 16

1
a
: marked by excessive sensitivity and impulsive mood changes
a temperamental child
b
: unpredictable in behavior or performance
a temperamental computer
2
: of, relating to, or arising from temperament : CONSTITUTIONAL
temperamental peculiarities

Question 17

Proposition

Answer 17

something offered for consideration or acceptance

Question 18

Vicious

Answer 18

Mean, cruel.

Question 19

Bared

Answer 19

a natural, usual, or appropriate covering
b
(1)
: lacking clothing

Question 20

Veered

Answer 20

to change direction or course

Question 21

melancholy

Answer 21

depression of spirits : DEJECTION
great outbursts of creativity alternate with feelings of extreme melancholy
—Brenda Lane Richardson
Mitchell sounds utterly alone in her melancholy, turning the sadness into tender art.
—Rolling Stone

Question 22

wedged

Answer 22

the pebble in the heel of his shoe was pretty well wedged

Question 23

glanced

Answer 23

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