Unit 1 Lesson 10

Question 0

Deign

Answer 0

To think it beneath one’s dignity; condescend; give

Question 1

Bane

Answer 1

Cause of death, ruin or distress

Question 2

Eke

Answer 2

To supplement; to manage to make a living with difficulty; to use frugally

Question 3

Knell

Answer 3

To ring in a slow, solemn way; toll; to call or announce by a mournful ringing; an omen of death or failure

Question 4

Mete

Answer 4

To allot, distribute or apportion

Question 5

Moot

Answer 5

Discussion or argument of a hypothetical law case; debatable; so hypothetical as to be meaningless

Question 6

Mulct

Answer 6

To punish by a fine or by depriving of something; to extract by fraud or deceit

Question 7

Plumb

Answer 7

Perfectly vertical; directly; to test or sound with a ‘plumb’ line (measure); to discover the facts of; to fathom, solve or understand

Question 8

Quail

Answer 8

To draw back in fear; lose heart or courage; cower.

• (also)- a partridge - a like bird mentioned in the bible as a source of the meat sent to the Israelites in the desert.

Question 9

Roil

Answer 9

To make a liquid cloudy or muddy; to stir up or agitate; to make angry; rile

Question 10

Ruck

Answer 10

To heap or stack; a large quantity or crowd; mass of ordinary people or things; common run

Question 11

Shunt

Answer 11

To move or turn to one side; to shift or switch from one track to another.

Question 12

Svelte

Answer 12

Slender and graceful; suave; polished

Question 13

Thrall

Answer 13

A slave or bondman; a person under the moral or psychological domination of something or someone; slavery.

Question 14

Tryst

Answer 14

An appointment, as by lovers; to meet