26 feb

Question 1

saboteur

Answer 1

a person who engages in sabotage.

Question 2

tumultuous

Answer 2

making an uproar or loud, confused noise.

excited, confused, or disorderly.

Question 3

throttle

Answer 3

attack or kill (someone) by choking or strangling them.

control (an engine or vehicle) with a throttle.

Question 4

pare

Answer 4

trim (something) by cutting away its outer edges.

Question 5

thucydides

Answer 5

a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it.

Question 6

peloponnesian

Answer 6

The Peloponnesian War was a war fought in ancient Greece between Athens and Sparta

Question 7

alacrity

Answer 7

brisk and cheerful readiness.

Question 8

denazification

Answer 8

the process of bringing the leaders of the National Socialist regime in Germany to justice and of purging all elements of Nazism from public life, carried out especially between 1945 and 1948.

Question 9

murky

Answer 9

dark and gloomy, especially due to thick mist.

obscure or morally questionable.

Question 10

incoherent

Answer 10

(of spoken or written language) expressed in an incomprehensible or confusing way; unclear.

Question 11

lackadaisical

Answer 11

lacking enthusiasm and determination; carelessly lazy.

Question 12

ember

Answer 12

a small piece of burning or glowing coal or wood in a dying fire.

Question 13

sultry

Answer 13

(of the air or weather) hot and humid.