TWL and other TS Eliot Poems Set

Question 1

Sordid (adj +n)

Answer 1

Adj. In physical senses: foul, dirty, and related uses. Cleanliness, also lowness of manner.
N. One who is sordid. rare.

Question 2

Estaminet (n)

Answer 2

A café in which smoking is allowed. Now, any small establishment selling alcoholic liquor. Also attributive.

Question 3

Juvescence (n)

Answer 3

The state of becoming young, juvenescence.

Question 4

Concitation (n)

Answer 4

Archaic, Stirring up, rousing, or exciting; agitation, excitement; esp. of the mind.

Question 5

Maculate (adj +v)

Answer 5

Adj. Spotted, stained, soiled; defiled; = maculated adj. (Now chiefly literary and poetic, in expressed or implied antithesis to immaculate.)
V. transitive. V. To spot, stain, or soil (something); (now rare) to defile (a person or thing). (literal and figurative.)

Question 6

Satiety (n)

Answer 6

More generally: the state of having gratified or indulged an appetite or desire to an excessive degree; weariness or dislike of something resulting from excessive gratification or indulgence. Frequently with of or with.

Question 7

Fetid (adj )

Answer 7

Having an offensive smell; stinking.

Question 8

Dolour (n)

Answer 8

Mental pain or suffering; sorrow, grief, distress.