Vocabulary 13

Question 1

Chalice (n.)

Answer 1

A cup, esp. for the wine served at holy communion

Question 2

Cretonne (n.)

Answer 2

A heavy cotton material in printed designs used for drapery and slipcovers

Question 3

Connive (v.)

Answer 3

To conspire or cooperate secretly

Question 4

Cavalier (adj.)

Answer 4

Haughty, disdainful, arrogant

Question 5

Disreputable (adj.)

Answer 5

Not reputable; having a bad reputation, discreditable, dishonorable

Question 6

Harmonium (n.)

Answer 6

An organ-like keyboard instrument with small metal reeds and a pair of bellows operated by the player’s feet

Question 7

Reparation (n.)

Answer 7

The making of amends for wrong or injury done, a compensation

Question 8

Garrulous (adj.)

Answer 8

Given to excessive chatter or talkativeness

Question 9

Pious (adj.)

Answer 9

Having or showing a dutiful spirit or reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations

Question 10

Rakish (adj.)

Answer 10

Like a dissolute or immoral man, unlawful, sexually beyond moral restraints

Question 11

Litany (n.)

Answer 11

A form of prayer consisting of series of supplications with responses, a prolonged or dreary account, or recitation that resembles a religious litany

Question 12

Florid (adj.)

Answer 12

Reddish, ruddy, or rosy

Question 13

Implacable (adj.)

Answer 13

Not to be appeased or pacified, unbendable, inexorable

Question 14

Discomfiture (n.)

Answer 14

Frustration of hopes or plans, confusion or embarrassment

Question 15

Sash (n.)

Answer 15

Fixed or moveable framework as in a window or door, in which panes of glass are set