My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Question 1

Uncouth

Answer 1

[of a person or appearance or their behavior] lacking good manners, refinement, or grace

Question 2

Nembutal

Answer 2

Short-acting barbiturate used for insomnia

Question 3

Plaintive

Answer 3

Sounding sad and mournful.

“I’m your best friend, she said plaintively”

Question 4

Bouffant (adj)

Answer 4

(Of hair) styled as to puff out in a rounded shape

“Its little bouffant hairdo”

Question 5

Piglety (adj)

Answer 5

Piglet is a baby pig, “she herself was a piglety shade of pink”

Question 6

Coarse (adj)

Answer 6

Rough or loose in texture or grain. “She wore a sack of a dress that looked like coarse linen”

Question 7

Samovar (n)

Answer 7

A highly decorated tea urn from Russia

Question 8

Filigree (n)

Answer 8

Ornamental work especially of fine wire of gold, silver, or copper

Question 9

Solipsism (n)

Answer 9

The view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist

Question 10

Mortar (n)

Answer 10

a cup-shaped receptacle made of hard material, in which ingredients are crushed or ground, used especially in cooking or pharmacy