Realism Era Test

Question 1

Blithe

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adj. Happy and cheerful joyous

Question 2

robust

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adj. strong and healthy sturdy

Question 3

Fetch

Answer 3

v. go to another place and bring back

Question 4

Disposition

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n. one’s nature or attitude

Question 5

Hieroglyphic

Answer 5

n. symbol standing for a word idea or sound

Question 6

Canuck

Answer 6

Slang for a Canadian

Question 7

Cuff

Answer 7

slang for black people

Question 8

Render

Answer 8

v. give;do

Question 9

Gangling

Answer 9

adj. thin, tall and awkward

Question 10

Scourged

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v. afflicted tormented

Question 11

Chilblains

Answer 11

an itching sore or redness or the hands or feet caused chiefly by exposure to cold

Question 12

Callow

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adj. young and inexperienced

Question 13

Reverential

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adj. feeling deeply respectful mixed with wonder

Question 14

Declensions

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n. the inflections of nouns pronouns and adjectives

Question 15

Trepidation

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n. nervous dread fear

Question 16

Excruciatingly

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adv. very painfully; torturously

Question 17

Interminably

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adv. endlessly

Question 18

Faro

Answer 18

a gambling game played by betting on the order in which certain cards will appear

Question 19

Jocularity

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n. with a jocular (funny joking) quality

Question 20

Myriad

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n. a very great number countless

Question 21

Naturalism

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Type of literature that depicts man in a brutal struggle with his environment in an indifferent universe

Question 22

Stephen Crane

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Wrote Naturalism

Question 23

Allegory

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Literary work where character, plot, and setting have a literal and a symbolic meaning

Question 24

Futile

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incapable of producing any useful result; pointless.

Question 25

Froth

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n. worthless or insubstantial talk, ideas, or activities.

Question 26

Exatriated

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n. driven away or exiled

Question 27

Maleovence

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adj. spitefulness; ill will

Question 28

Anathema

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n. thing or person accursed or detested her a condemnation

Question 29

Prescience

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n. knowledge of things before they happen

Question 30

Bellicose

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adj. quarrelsome or hostile

Question 31

Maudlin

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adj. person dispised or rejected

Question 32

Compliance

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give into a wish, request, demand

Question 33

Dilapidated

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rundown, neglected

Question 34

Ornery

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bad-tempered, stubborn

Question 35

Garrulous

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talkative