Faulkner Vocab

Question 1

scuttering

Answer 1

To move with a clattering, scurrying around

Question 2

myriad

Answer 2

a very great or indefinitely great number of persons or things

Question 3

decorous

Answer 3

characterized by dignified properly in conduct, manner, appearance, or character.

Question 4

trifling

Answer 4

a matter, affair, or circumstance of trivial importance or significance

Question 5

abject

Answer 5

utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or watched

Question 6

approbation

Answer 6

approval, commenciation

Question 7

ubiquity

Answer 7

The state of capacity of being everywhere, especially at the same time

Question 8

portentious

Answer 8

Ominously significant or indicative

Question 9

Irremediable

Answer 9

Not admitting of remedy, cure, or repair

Question 10

travail

Answer 10

painfully difficult or burdensome work: toil

Question 11

fulcrum

Answer 11

the support, or point of rest, on which a lever turns in moving a body

Question 12

Tremulous

Answer 12

characterized by trembling, as from fear, nervousness, or weakness.

Question 13

penurious

Answer 13

extremely stingy, parsimonious, miserly

Question 14

stertorous

Answer 14

characterized by stertor or heavy snoring

Question 15

nihilists

Answer 15

those who believe that there is no objective meaning to existence

Question 16

implacable

Answer 16

not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified. inexorable

Question 17

calculant

Answer 17

given to thought, calculation

Question 18

infinitesimal

Answer 18

indefinitely or exceedingly small, minute

Question 19

fluctuant

Answer 19

fluctuating varying unstable

Question 20

volitional

Answer 20

the act of willing, choosing, or resolving

Question 21

suffused

Answer 21

to spread over something with liquid etc

Question 22

imperviousness

Answer 22

the quality of being impenetrable

Question 23

turgid

Answer 23

swollen

Question 24

soporific

Answer 24

quality of making someone sleepy

Question 25

abetting

Answer 25

to encourage by support, by aid, or approval especially in wrongdoing

Question 26

surreptitious

Answer 26

to act in a stealthy manner

Question 27

scoriation

Answer 27

sloppily cut groove characterized by the presence of refuse material from which it was cut.

Question 28

uniferant

Answer 28

without inference, with no hint of

Question 29

hillocks

Answer 29

small hills

Question 30

shoat

Answer 30

a young big just after weening

Question 31

peremptory

Answer 31

leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal imperative

Question 32

expiation

Answer 32

the means by which atonement or reparation is made

Question 33

accretion

Answer 33

an increase by natural growth or by gradual external addition

Question 34

recessional

Answer 34

of or pertaining to a recession of the clergy and choir after the service

Question 35

circumspection

Answer 35

circumspect observation or action, caution, or prudence.