Week 1 Vocabulary

Question 1

Scullery

Answer 1

A small room or section of a pantry in which food is cleaned, trimmed, and cut into cooking portions before being sent to the kitchen.

Question 2

Perfunctory

Answer 2

Performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial

Or: lacking interest, care, or enthusiasm; indifferent or apathetic:

Question 3

Obstinate

Answer 3

Firmly or stubbornly adhering to one’s purpose, opinion

Question 4

Furtive

Answer 4

Sly; shifty

Question 5

Futile

Answer 5

Incapable of producing any result; ineffective; useless;

Question 6

Malacca

Answer 6

A cane

Question 7

Colloquial

Answer 7

Ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal.

Question 8

Glade

Answer 8

An open space in a forest.

Question 9

Recede

Answer 9

To go or move away; retreat; go to or toward a more distant point; withdraw.

Question 10

Tapestry

Answer 10

A fabric consisting of a warp upon which colored threads are woven by hand to produce a design, often pictorial, used for wall hangings, furniture coverings

Question 11

Emanations

Answer 11

An abstract but perceptible thing that issues or originates from a sourc

Question 12

Abstract

Answer 12

Existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence.

Question 13

Agate

Answer 13

An ornamental stone consisting of a hard variety of chalcedony, typically banded in appearance.

Question 14

Conjure

Answer 14

Call upon (a spirit or ghost) to appear, by means of a magic ritual.

Question 15

Persecute

Answer 15

Subject (someone) to hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of their race or political or religious beliefs.

Question 16

Paranoia

Answer 16

Suspicion and mistrust of people or their actions without evidence or justification