Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

Question 1

Obtuse

Answer 1

adjective
1. annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand.
“he wondered if the doctor was being deliberately obtuse”

2. (of an angle) more than 90° and less than 180°.
“an obtuse angle of 150°”

Question 2

Supine

Answer 2

adjective
1. (of a person) lying face upwards.

2. failing to act or protest as a result of moral weakness or indolence.
“they remained supine in the face of terrible wrongdoing”

noun GRAMMAR
a Latin verbal noun used only in the accusative and ablative cases, especially to denote purpose (e.g. mirabile dictu ‘wonderful to relate’).

Question 3

Irrevocable

Answer 3

adjective
not able to be changed, reversed, or recovered; final.
“an irrevocable step”

Question 4

Decadence

Answer 4

noun
1. moral or cultural decline as characterized by excessive indulgence in pleasure or luxury.
“he denounced Western decadence”

2. luxurious self-indulgence.
“cream cakes on a Wednesday—pure decadence”

Question 5

Delinquent

Answer 5

adjective
1. (typically of a young person) tending to commit crime, particularly minor crime.
“delinquent teenagers”

FORMAL
2. failing in one’s duty.

noun
a delinquent person.
“juvenile delinquents”

Question 6

Prodigious

Answer 6

adjective
1. remarkably or impressively great in extent, size, or degree.
“the stove consumed a prodigious amount of fuel”

ARCHAIC
2. unnatural or abnormal.
“rumours of prodigious happenings, such as monstrous births”

Question 7

Provisional

Answer 7

adjective
1.arranged or existing for the present, possibly to be changed later.
“provisional bookings”

2. denoting the unofficial wings of the IRA and Sinn Fein established in 1969 and advocating terrorism.
“the Provisional IRA”

noun
1.a provisional stamp.

2. a member of the Provisional wings of the IRA or Sinn Fein.

Question 8

Effulgence

Answer 8

noun
the ability to shine brightly.
“the fire died down, marked only by a brief effulgence of a glowing ember”

Question 9

Remuneration

Answer 9

noun
money paid for work or a service.
“they work in excess of their contracted hours for no additional remuneration”

Question 10

Transgression

Answer 10

noun
an act that goes against a law, rule, or code of conduct; an offence.
“I’ll be keeping an eye out for further transgressions”

Question 11

Spangled

Answer 11

adjective
covered with spangles or other small sparkling objects or lights.
“she arrived alone wearing a red spangled dress”

Question 12

Famish

Answer 12

verb
1. to cause to suffer severely from hunger.

ARCHAIC
2. to cause to starve to death.

ARCHAIC
3. starve.

4. to suffer for lack of something necessary.
“a moment when French poetry in particular was famishing for such invention”

Question 13

Leavening

Answer 13

noun
1. a substance used in dough to make it rise, such as yeast or baking powder.
“during the 18th century yeast was abandoned as a leavening for fruit cakes”

2. a quality or element that permeates and modifies or transforms something for the better.
“underneath the frills and fuss there’s a leavening of serious intent”

Question 14

Obviate

Answer 14

verb
1. remove (a need or difficulty).
“the presence of roller blinds obviated the need for curtains”

2. avoid or prevent (something undesirable).
“a parachute can be used to obviate disaster”

Question 15

Parlance

Answer 15

noun
a particular way of speaking or using words, especially a way common to those with a particular job or interest.
“dated terms that were once in common parlance”

Question 16

Eddy

Answer 16

noun
a circular movement of water causing a small whirlpool.
“the current was forming foam-lipped eddies along the bank”

verb
(of water, air, or smoke) move in a circular way.
“the mists from the river eddied round the banks”

Question 17

Gradation

Answer 17

noun

1. a scale or series of successive changes, stages, or degrees.
“the Act fails to provide both a clear and defensible gradation of offences”

2. an individual stage within a succession of changes, stages, or degrees.
“gradations of size”

3. a minute variation in shade, tone, or colour.
“amorphous shapes in subtle gradations of green and blue”

4. (in historical linguistics) another term for ablaut.

Question 18

Languish

Answer 18

verb
1. (of a person, animal, or plant) lose or lack vitality; grow weak.
“plants may appear to be languishing simply because they are dormant”

2. be forced to remain in an unpleasant place or situation.
“he has been languishing in jail since 1974”

Question 19

Conjugate

Answer 19

verb
GRAMMAR
1. give the different forms of (a verb in an inflected language such as Latin) as they vary according to voice, mood, tense, number, and person.
“conjugating verbs forms part of language study”

BIOLOGY
2. (of bacteria or unicellular organisms) become temporarily united in order to exchange genetic material.
“E. coli only conjugate when one of the cells possesses fertility genes”

adjective
TECHNICAL
coupled, connected, or related.

noun
BIOCHEMISTRY
1. a substance formed by the reversible combination of two or more others.

2. a mathematical value or entity having a reciprocal relation with another.

Question 20

Bunion

Answer 20

noun
a bony bump that forms on the joint at the base of your big toe.

Question 21

Conversely

Answer 21

adverb
introducing a statement or idea which reverses one that has just been made or referred to.
“we’re not going to have enough onions to last the year, while courgettes, conversely, are in a major surplus”

Question 22

Denizen

Answer 22

noun
FORMAL•HUMOROUS
1. a person, animal, or plant that lives or is found in a particular place.
“denizens of field and forest”

HISTORICAL•BRITISH
2. a foreigner allowed certain rights in their adopted country.