V O C A B

Question 1

ubiety

Answer 1

the property of having a definite location at any given time; state of existing and being localized in space.

Question 2

Ennui

Answer 2

a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom: the endless lecture produced an unbearable ennui.

Question 3

otiose

Answer 3

being at leisure; idle; indolent.

ineffective or futile.

Question 4

clepe

Answer 4

archaic. to call; name (now chiefly in the past participle as ycleped or yclept).

Citations for clepe
…That none of us not speak a single word, / Nor clepe nor cry, but be in his prayere, / For that is Godde’s owen heste dear.
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, 1400
After all these there marcht a most faire Dame, / Led of two grysie Villeins, th’ one Despight, / The other cleped Cruelty by name: / She, dolefull Lady, like a dreary Spright / Cald by strong charmes out of eternall night, / Had Deathes owne ymage figurd in her face…
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, 1590
Origin of clepe
Clepe has been in English since before 900. It is akin to the Middle Low German kleperen meaning “to rattle.”

Question 5

cavil

Answer 5

to raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily (usually followed by at or about ): he finds something to cavil at in everything i say.

to oppose by inconsequential, frivolous, or sham objections: to cavil each item of a proposed agenda.

Question 6

definiens

Answer 6

something that defines, especially the defining part of a dictionary entry.

logic. an expression in terms of which another may be adequately defined.

Question 7

shivaree

Answer 7

Definitions for shivaree
a mock serenade with kettles, pans, horns, and other noisemakers given for a newly married couple; charivari.

informal. an elaborate, noisy celebration

Question 8

tenderfoot

Answer 8

a raw, inexperienced person; novice.

a newcomer to the ranching and mining regions of the western u.s., unused to hardships.