TR Sections 13-18 Vocab

Question 1

Balustrade

Answer 1

A railing supported by balusters

Question 2

Pall

Answer 2

A cloth spread over a coffin, hearse, or tomb

Question 3

Decoy

Answer 3

A bird or mammal, or an imitation of one, used by hunters to attract other birds or mammals

Question 4

Rucksack

Answer 4

A bag with shoulder straps that allow it to be carried on someone’s back

Question 5

Bivouacked

Answer 5

To stay in a temporary camp without tents or cover

Question 6

Threadbare

Answer 6

(of cloth, clothing, or soft furnishings) Becoming thin and tattered with age

Question 7

Buddha

Answer 7

A person who has attained full enlightenment

Question 8

Secular

Answer 8

Denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis

Question 9

Gullied

Answer 9

The act of water eroding a ravine

Question 10

Kudzu

Answer 10

A quick-growing eastern Asian climbing plant with reddish-purple flowers, used as a fodder crop and for erosion control

Question 11

Transit

Answer 11

The carrying of people, goods, or materials from one place to another

Question 12

Cairn

Answer 12

A mound of rough stones built as a memorial or landmark, typically on a hilltop or skyline

Question 13

Sundries

Answer 13

Miscellaneous objects too numerous or too small to be specified

Question 14

Notions

Answer 14

A conception of or belief about somehting

Question 15

Culvert

Answer 15

A tunnel carrying a stream or open drain under a road or railroad

Question 16

Fey

Answer 16

Giving an impression of vague unworldliness

Question 17

Predicated

Answer 17

State, affirm, or assert (something) about the subject of a sentence or an argument of porposition

Question 18

Caustic

Answer 18

Able to burn or corrode organic tissue by chemical action

Question 19

Quadrants

Answer 19

Each of four quarters of a circle

Question 20

Mattock

Answer 20

An agricultural tool shaped like a pickaxe, with an adze and chiseled edges

Question 21

Bolus

Answer 21

A small rounded mass of a substance, esp. of chewed food at the moment of swallowing

Question 22

Corrugate

Answer 22

Contract or cause to contract into wrinkles or folds

Question 23

Magnolia

Answer 23

A tree or shrub with large, typically creamy-pink, waxy flowers

Question 24

Spire

Answer 24

A tapering conical or pyramidal structure on the top of a building, typically a church tower

Question 25

Provisions

Answer 25

the action of providing or supplying something for use

Question 26

Jerry Jug

Answer 26

Is a robust fuel container originally made from pressed steel

Question 27

Slough

Answer 27

A swamp

Question 28

Serpentine

Answer 28

Of or like a serpent or snake

Question 29

Verdigris

Answer 29

A bright bluish-green encrustation or patina formed on copper or brass by atmospheric oxidation, consisting of basic copper carbonate

Question 30

Palladian

Answer 30

Of, relating to , or denoting the neoclassical style of Andrea Palladio from c. 1715

Question 31

Lintel

Answer 31

A horizontal support of timber, stone, concrete, or steel across the top of a door or window

Question 32

Myriad

Answer 32

A countless or extremely great number

Question 33

Disinterred

Answer 33

Dig up (something that has been buried, esp. a corpse)

Question 34

Cholera

Answer 34

An infectious and often fatal bacterial disease of the small intestine

Question 35

Desolation

Answer 35

A state of complete emptiness or destruction

Question 36

Careened

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Turn (a ship) on its side for cleaning, caulking, or repair

Question 37

Slag

Answer 37

Stony waste matter separated from metals during the smelting or refining of ore

Question 38

Vigilant

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Keeping careful watch for possible danger or difficulties

Question 39

Iodine

Answer 39

the chemical element of atomic number 53, a nonmetallic element of halogen group, forming black crystals and a violet vapor

Question 40

Sepulchre

Answer 40

Burial chamber: A chamber that is used as a grave