The Waste Land Set 1

Question 1

Laquearia (n)

Answer 1

A ceiling, roof.

Question 2

Coffered (adj)

Answer 2

Enclosed in, or as in, a coffer; resting on coffers.

Question 3

Coffer (v)

Answer 3

1. transitive. To enclose in, or as in, a coffer; to lay up securely; to hoard, to treasure up. Obsolete or archaic. 2. To curl up, twist, warp. Obs.

Question 4

Sylvan/silvan (n+adj)

Answer 4

N. One who (or something that) inhabits a wood or forest; a being of the woods.
Adj. Belonging, pertaining, or relating to, situated or performed in, associated with, or characteristic of, a wood or woods. In earliest use of deities or nymphs.

Question 5

Philomel (n)

Answer 5

A poetic or literary name for: the nightingale (in allusion to the myth of the maiden Philomela’s transformation into that bird). Also as a count noun: a nightingale.

Question 6

Inviolable (adj)

Answer 6

Not to be violated; not liable or allowed to suffer violence; to be kept sacredly free from profanation, infraction, or assault.

Question 7

Garret (n + v)

Answer 7

N. A room on the uppermost floor of a house; an apartment formed either partially or wholly within the roof, an attic.
V. transitive. To insert small pieces of stone in the joints of (coarse masonry).

Question 8

Demotic (n + adj)

Answer 8

N. Ordinary colloquial speech; the everyday language of ordinary people.
Adj. Designating the kind of language used by ordinary people; written in or belonging to this kind of language; vernacular; colloquial. This also relates to Egyptian and greek script.

Question 9

Divan (n)

Answer 9

An Islamic council of state; spec. in Turkey, the privy council of the Porte, presided over by the Sultan, or in his absence by the grand vizier. transferred. A council in general.

Question 10

Carbuncular (adj)

Answer 10

Of the nature of or resembling a carbuncle ; characterized by carbuncles; pustular, pimply. Also: of or relating to a carbuncle.

Question 11

Propitious (adj)

Answer 11

Of an omen or sign: of favourable import; regarded as indicative of the favourable disposition of God, the fates, etc.; auspicious. Later more generally: boding well, promising. Favourable conditions.

Question 12

Elucidate (v)

Answer 12

transitive. To render lucid; now only figurative to throw light upon, clear up, explain.

Question 13

Carious (adj)

Answer 13

Of bones and teeth affected with rot - transferred. Decayed; rotten with dry rot.