Vocabulary 10

Question 1

Victuals (n.)

Answer 1

Food supplies, provisions, esp. for humans

Question 2

Smack (n.)

Answer 2

A flavor, trace, touch, of suggestion of something

Question 3

Strychnine (n.)

Answer 3

A poison

Question 4

Meringue (n.)

Answer 4

A frothy topping of beaten egg whites and sugar or a pastry or cookie made by baking such a mixture

Question 5

Milliner (n.)

Answer 5

Person who designs, makes, or sells hats for women

Question 6

Appalling (adj.)

Answer 6

Describes something overcome with horror or dismary

Question 7

Japonica (n.)

Answer 7

Camellia, woody plant having glossy leaves and white, pink, red, or variegated waxy rose-like flowers

Question 8

Breech (n.)

Answer 8

Rear part of bore of gun; esp. the opening and associated mechanism that permits insertion of a projectile

Question 9

Creed (n.)

Answer 9

Accepted system of religious belief

Question 10

Sepulchral (adj.)

Answer 10

Of or pertaining to a tomb or burial, something funereal or dismal

Question 11

Restive (adj.)

Answer 11

Restless, uneasy, stubborn, refusing to go forward

Question 12

Alabaster (n. or adj.)

Answer 12

-Finely granular variety of gypsum; often white and translucent and used for ornamental objects

Question 13

Promontory (n.)

Answer 13

High point of land or rock projecting into the sea or other body of water

Question 14

Ductile (adj.)

Answer 14

Capable of begin hammered out thin as certain metal or drawn out into wire or threads as gold

Question 15

Gossamer (n.)

Answer 15

A fine, filmy cobweb seen on grass or bushes or floating in the air in calm weather