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Question 1

Define
contradistinction
Abode
Yore
Sinecure
Fallacious
Substantiate

Answer 1

Distinction made by contrasting
Living space
Times long past
A position with many benefits but requiring little work
Embodying a fallacy
Support with evidence

Question 2

Define:
Querulous
Malapert
Distrain
Ungrammatical
Ablation
Arrogate
Brite

Answer 2

Whining petulantly
Boldly disrespectful to authority
Seize property as payment
Grammatically incorrect
Removal of something
Take without justification
To be or become overripe

Question 3

The two main divisions of the goths
Which was frendlier to the romans
Which founded the kingdom of asturias
The visigoths migrated to gaul and Iberia from where
Which sacked the western Roman Empire and when
The empire of which ruled Italy in the fifth century, who destroyed thag empire

Answer 3

visigoths and ostrogoths
The visigoths
The visigoths
The region north of the danube
The Visigoths in 410
the ostrogoths, the byzantines

Question 4

Archaic:
Smite
Blore
Implore
Trifle
Glaive
Sublime
Thon
Bookcraft

Answer 4

A heavy hit with a weapon
To cry
To beg for
To try
Act of talk frivolously
Sword
Elevate to a high degree of moral excellence
That on
Literary skikk

Question 5

Define:
diagraph
consonant disgraph
Eye dialect
Jubilance
Seroprevalence
Hubris
Appurtenance
Doctrine

Answer 5

A grapheme of two letters
A grapheme of two consonants
A writers deliberate use of nonstandard spelling
Happiness
The level of pathogen in a population as measured in blood serum
Excessive self confidence
An item associated with a particular style of living
A set of beliefs held by a group

Question 6

Old English verbs
To have to
Will or want
To be able to
To become
To steal

Answer 6

Sculan
Willan
Magan
Weor(thorn)an
Stelan