Reading Comp. 5

Question 1

Carapace

Answer 1

The hard upper shell of a turtle or a crustacean

Question 2

Edification

Answer 2

The instruction or improvement of a person morally or intellectually

Question 3

Evanescent

Answer 3

Vanishing, fading away, fleeting

Question 4

Mien

Answer 4

Air, bearing or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc.

Question 5

Sanguinary

Answer 5

Full of, or characterized by bloodshed

Question 6

Construe

Answer 6

To give the meaning or intention of; explain, interpret, to deduce by inference or interpretation, infer

Question 7

Ambit

Answer 7

Circumference, circuit

Question 8

Sage

Answer 8

A profoundly wise person; a person famed for wisdom

Question 9

Disconsolate

Answer 9

Without solace // hopelessly unhappy: inconsolable

Question 10

Arduous

Answer 10

Requiring great exertion; laborious, difficult

Question 11

Juggernaut

Answer 11

Any large, overpowering, destructive force, or object

- Ex . War, a giant battleship, etc.

Question 12

Malaise

Answer 12

A condition of general body weakness or discomfort, often marking the onset of disease

Question 13

Piqued

Answer 13

To affect w/ sharp irritation // to excite // to wound (pride, vanity, etc.)

Question 14

Gregarious

Answer 14

Fond of the company of others: sociable, living in flocks/herds, as animals // Growing in open clusters/colonies

Question 15

Languishing

Answer 15

(of a person or living thing) to lose or lack vitality, to grow weaker

Question 16

Sentinal

Answer 16

A person or thing that watches or stands as if watching