list #1

Question 1

bane

Answer 1

(noun) a cause of great distress or annoyance

Question 2

cadaver

Answer 2

(noun) a corpse - dead body

Question 3

debilitate

Answer 3

(verb) make someone weak, to cripple and infirm

Question 4

edify

Answer 4

(verb) instruct or improve someone morally or intellectually

Question 5

fallow

Answer 5

(adjective) of farmland and left unplanted and unplanted in order to restore it’s crop rotationor to avoid surplus production

Question 6

gall

Answer 6

(noun) bold impudent behavior

Question 7

harbinger

Answer 7

(noun) a person or thing that announces or signals the approach of another

Question 8

ignominious

Answer 8

(adjective) deserving or causing public disgrace or shame

Question 9

jocular

Answer 9

(adjective) fond of or characterized by joking, humorous or playful

Question 10

knell

Answer 10

(noun) sound of a bell, espescially when rung solemnly for a death/funeral

Question 11

laconic

Answer 11

(adjective) of a person, speech, or style of writing very few words

Question 12

malign

Answer 12

(adjective) evil in nature

Question 13

nefarious

Answer 13

(adjective) typically of an action or activity, wicked or criminal

Question 14

ordain

Answer 14

(verb) order & decree (something) officially

Question 15

abdicate

Answer 15

(verb) to give up pr renounce espescially in a voluntary, public, or formal matter