This Boy's Life November 3

Question 1

filigree

Answer 1

ornamental work of fine wire formed into delicate tracery

Question 2

palpable

Answer 2

able to be touched or felt

Question 3

pompadour

Answer 3

a man’s hair style in which the hair is combed up from the forehead without a part

Question 4

juggernaut

Answer 4

a huge, powerful and overwhelming force or institution

Question 5

perpetuate

Answer 5

make continue indefinitely

Question 6

rectitude

Answer 6

morally correct behavior or thinking; righteousness

Question 7

debauchery

Answer 7

excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures

Question 8

apoplectic

Answer 8

overcome with anger; extremely indignant

Question 9

ordnance

Answer 9

military material, such as weapons and ammunition

Question 10

Saharan

Answer 10

bare and empty

Question 11

balk

Answer 11

hesitate or be unwilling to accept an idea or an undertaking

Question 12

impugn

Answer 12

dispute the truth, validity or honesty of a statement or motive; call into question

Question 13

half-caste

Answer 13

a term for a category of people of mixed race or ethnicity

Question 14

thoroughbred

Answer 14

a horse of pure breed

Question 15

condescension

Answer 15

an attitude of patronizing superiority; disdain

Question 16

impervious

Answer 16

unable to be affected by

Question 17

haughtily

Answer 17

arrogantly superior and disdainful

Question 18

lumpen

Answer 18

vulgar or common

Question 19

flounder

Answer 19

to move in an awkward way; to be unsure of what to say