Vocab 1

Question 0

Ascetic

Answer 0

Rigorously abstinent; austere; exceedingly strict or severe in religious exercises or self-mortification

Question 1

August

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Inspiring reverence or admiration; of supreme dignity or grandeur; venerable; eminent

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Diaphanous

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Very sheer and light; almost completely transparent or translucent; delicately hazy

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Sedentary

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Characterized by or requiring a sitting posture; accustomed to sit or rest a great deal or to take little exercise

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Knights-errant

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A wandering knight; a knight who traveled widely in search of adventures, to exhibit military skill, to engage in chivalric deeds

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Hankering

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A longing; craving

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Sepulcher

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A tomb, grave, or burial place

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Somnambulist

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A sleepwalker

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Pall

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A cloth, often velvet, for spreading over a coffin, bier, or tomb

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Sententiously

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In a preachy, didactic, sanctimonious, moralistic manner

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Insipid

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Without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; bland; flat; dull; uninteresting

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Sordid

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Morally ignoble or base; vile; meanly selfish, self-seeking, or mercenary; dirty or filthy; squalid

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Lugubrious

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Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, esp. in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner

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Drollery

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Something whimsically amusing or funny

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Catacomb

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An underground cemetery, esp. one consisting of tunnels and rooms with recesses dug out for coffins and tombs

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Declivity

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A downward slope, as of ground

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Rapacious

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Giving to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed; inordinately greedy; predatory; extortionate

Question 17

Insidious

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Intended to entrap or beguile; stealthily treacherous or deceitful;