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Question 1

brig

Answer 1

a 2-masted square-rigged ship

Question 2

tendril

Answer 2

a leaf, stipule, or stem serving to attach a climbing plant to its support

Question 3

postern

Answer 3

a back door or gate; a private or side entrance or way

Question 4

cravat

Answer 4

a band or scarf worn around the neck

Question 5

sash

Answer 5

a band worn about the waist or over one shoulder and used as a dress accessory or emblem

Question 6

handspike

Answer 6

a bar used as a lever

Question 7

rudiment

Answer 7

a basic principle or element; a fundamental skill; something unformed or undeveloped

Question 8

counterpane

Answer 8

a bedspread

Question 9

tyro

Answer 9

a beginner in learning

Question 10

exordium

Answer 10

a beginning or introduction especially to a discourse or composition

Question 11

belfry

Answer 11

a bell tower; a room or framework for enclosing a bell

Question 12

bandolier

Answer 12

a belt worn over the shoulder and across the breast often for the suspending of some article

Question 13

quinine

Answer 13

a bitter crystalline alkaloid used in medicine, especially as an antipyretic or antimalarial

Question 14

quill

Answer 14

a bobbin, spool, or spindle on which filling yarn is wound; a hollow shaft

Question 15

bursa

Answer 15

a bodily pouch or sac; a small serous sac between a tendon and a bone

Question 16

phalanx

Answer 16

a body of heavily armed infantry formed in close deep ranks and files

Question 17

spavin

Answer 17

a bony enlargement of the hock of a horse associated with strain

Question 18

carapace

Answer 18

a bony or chitinous case or shield covering the back of an animal (such as a turtle or crab)

Question 19

gamin

Answer 19

a boy who hangs around on the streets

Question 20

bough

Answer 20

a branch of a tree; especially a main branch

Question 21

obstetrics

Answer 21

a branch of medical science that deals with pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period

Question 22

ornithology

Answer 22

a branch of zoology dealing with birds

Question 23

ichthyology

Answer 23

a branch of zoology that deals with fishes

Question 24

conchology

Answer 24

a branch of zoology that deals with shells

Question 25

spiracle

Answer 25

a breathing hole; blowhole

Question 26

afflation

Answer 26

a breathing into; inspiration

Question 27

rookery

Answer 27

a breeding ground or haunt especially of gregarious birds, penguins or seals

Question 28

zephyr

Answer 28

a breeze from the west; a gentle breeze

Question 29

hearth

Answer 29

a brick, stone, or concrete area in front of a fireplace; the lowest section of a furnace

Question 30

hackamore

Answer 30

a bridle with a loop capable of being tightened about the nose in place of a bit

Question 31

obi

Answer 31

a broad sash worn with a Japanese kimono

Question 32

sorrel

Answer 32

a brownish orange to light brown; a sorrel-colored animal

Question 33

tawny

Answer 33

a brownish-orange to light brown color; of a warm sandy color

Question 34

ruffian

Answer 34

a brutal person; a bully

Question 35

houbara

Answer 35

a bustard (bird) of northern Africa

Question 36

knacker

Answer 36

a buyer of worn-out domestic animals or their carcasses for use especially as animal food or fertilizer

Question 37

millrace

Answer 37

a canal in which water flows to and from a mill wheel; the current that drives the wheel

Question 38

comfit

Answer 38

a candy consisting of a piece of fruit, root, nut, or seed coated and preserved with sugar

Question 39

foolscap

Answer 39

a cap or hood usually with bells worn by jesters; a size of paper formerly standard in Great Britain

Question 40

whim

Answer 40

a capricious or sudden idea or turn of the mind; a large capstan to which a horse may be yoked

Question 41

chyron

Answer 41

a caption superimposed over usually the lower part of a video image

Question 42

euchre

Answer 42

a card game in which a player makes trump to win a hand

Question 43

trump

Answer 43

a card of a suit any of whose cards will win over a card that is not of this suit

Question 44

petroglyph

Answer 44

a carving on a rock

Question 45

gelding

Answer 45

a castrated horse or other animal

Question 46

mortise

Answer 46

a cavity cut into a piece of material (such as timber) to receive a tenon

Question 47

maundy

Answer 47

a ceremony of washing the feet of the poor on Maundy Thursday (day befiore Good Friday)

Question 48

demise

Answer 48

a cessation of existence or activity; a loss of position or status

Question 49

fetter

Answer 49

a chain or shackle for the feet; to restrain from motion, action, or progress

Question 50

coffer

Answer 50

a chest or strongbox; to store up

Question 51

caisson

Answer 51

a chest to hold ammunition; a watertight chamber used in construction work under water

Question 52

joss

Answer 52

a Chinese idol or cult image

Question 53

sacrament

Answer 53

a Christian rite that is believed to have been ordained by Christ

Question 54

pretense

Answer 54

a claim made or implied; professed rather than real intention or purpose

Question 55

declension

Answer 55

a class of nouns or adjectives having the same type of inflectional forms; a falling off or away

Question 56

genus

Answer 56

a class, kind, or group marked by common characteristics or by one common characteristic

Question 57

polygon

Answer 57

a closed plane figure bounded by straight lines

Question 58

embolus

Answer 58

a clot that breaks lose and travels through the bloodstream.

Question 59

felt

Answer 59

a cloth made of wool and fur mixed with natural or synthetic fibers

Question 60

gingham

Answer 60

a clothing fabric usually of yarn-dyed cotton in plain weave

Question 61

lummox

Answer 61

a clumsy, stupid person

Question 62

brogan

Answer 62

a coarse work shoe reaching to the ankle

Question 63

menagerie

Answer 63

a collection of wild or foreign animals kept especially for exhibition; a varied mixture

Question 64

portico

Answer 64

a colonnade especially in classical architecture and often at the entrance of a building

Question 65

serape

Answer 65

a colorful woolen shawl worn over the shoulders especially by Mexican men

Question 66

currycomb

Answer 66

a comb made of rows of metallic teeth or serrated ridges and used especially for horses

Question 67

harlequin

Answer 67

a comedic character with a masked face and variegated tights; a variegated pattern (as of a textile)

Question 68

brevet

Answer 68

a commission giving a military officer (temporary) higher nominal rank than that for which pay is received

Question 69

triumvirate

Answer 69

a commission or ruling body of three

Question 70

skylark

Answer 70

a common largely brown Old World lark noted for its song especially as uttered in flight

Question 71

rook

Answer 71

a common Old World gregarious crow that nests and roosts in usually treetop colonies

Question 72

alabaster

Answer 72

a compact fine-textured usually white and translucent gypsum often carved into vases and ornaments

Question 73

tussock

Answer 73

a compact tuft especially of grass or sedge

Question 74

pemmican

Answer 74

a concentrated food consisting of lean meat dried, pounded fine, and mixed with melted fat

Question 75

deduction

Answer 75

a conclusion reached by logical deduction

Question 76

megrim

Answer 76

a condition marked by recurring moderate to severe headache with throbbing pain; a fancy or whim

Question 77

woe

Answer 77

a condition of deep suffering from misfortune, affliction, or grief; ruinous trouble

Question 78

lassitude

Answer 78

a condition of weariness or debility; a condition characterized by lack of interest, energy, or spirit

Question 79

parley

Answer 79

a conference for discussion of points in dispute; a conference with an enemy

Question 80

conundrum

Answer 80

a confusing and difficult problem or question

Question 81

plentitude

Answer 81

a considerable amount; plenty

Question 82

spectrum

Answer 82

a continuum of color formed when white light is dispersed

Question 83

palanquin

Answer 83

a conveyance that consists of an enclosed litter borne on the shoulders of men by poles

Question 84

barrister

Answer 84

a counsel admitted to plead at the bar and undertake public trials in an English superior court

Question 85

shire

Answer 85

a county in England; an old breed of large heavy draft horses

Question 86

testudo

Answer 86

a cover of overlapping shields wheeled up to a wall to protect an attacking force

Question 87

shroud

Answer 87

a cover or guard; one of the ropes leading from a ship's mastheads to give lateral support to masts

Question 88

litter

Answer 88

a covered couch used to carry a single passenger on the shoulders of men

Question 89

vesture

Answer 89

a covering garment (such as a robe or vestment); to cover with vesture

Question 90

scaramouch

Answer 90

a cowardly buffoon

Question 91

penury

Answer 91

a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (such as money)

Question 92

rood

Answer 92

a cross or crucifix symbolizing the cross on which Jesus Christ died

Question 93

scuppernong

Answer 93

a cultivated muscadine with yellowish-green plum-flavored fruits

Question 94

scimitar

Answer 94

a curved, single-edged sword of Oriental origin

Question 95

squab

Answer 95

a cushion for a chair or couch; a fledgling pigeon

Question 96

adze

Answer 96

a cutting tool that has a thin arched blade set at right angles to the handle, used chiefly for shaping wood

Question 97

poniard

Answer 97

a dagger with a usually slender blade of triangular or square cross section

Question 98

basalt

Answer 98

a dark gray to black dense to fine-grained igneous rock

Question 99

puce

Answer 99

a dark red