Vocab

Question 0

Coroner

Answer 0

Public officer who investigates by inquest any death other than natural.

Question 1

Proxy

Answer 1

The authority to act for another.

Question 2

Gauntlet

Answer 2

A glove worn with medieval armor

Question 3

Sinuous

Answer 3

Supple and graceful

Question 4

Parochial

Answer 4

Narrow-minded, concerned only with narrow local concerns.

Question 5

Exile

Answer 5

Absence from own country

Question 6

Chide

Answer 6

To speak out in angry or displeased rebuke.

Question 7

Bland

Answer 7

Unemotional, without emotion.

Question 8

Seized

Answer 8

To take hold of suddenly or forcibly

Question 9

Defaces

Answer 9

To spoil the appearance of something. To deface a wall by writing on it.

Question 10

Permeated

Answer 10

To enter something and spread throughout it.

Question 11

Labyrinth

Answer 11

A place with a lot of crisscrossing or complicated passages.

Question 12

Façade

Answer 12

The face of a building

Question 13

Application

Answer 13

The act of putting to a special use or purpose.

Question 14

Squeamish

Answer 14

Easily made to feel sick.

Question 15

Derelict

Answer 15

Deserted no longer in use.

Question 16

Narrate

Answer 16

To tell a story or give an account.

Question 17

Peerless

Answer 17

So good as to have no equal.

Question 18

Strata

Answer 18

A layer or level within an ordered system.

Question 19

Loathe

Answer 19

Dislike somebody or something.

Question 20

Disdain

Answer 20

Extreme contempt or disgust for something or somebody.

Question 21

Celestial

Answer 21

Of or relating to the sky or the heavens.

Question 22

Plagiarize

Answer 22

To steal and pass off as one’s own.

Question 23

Obscure

Answer 23

Shrouded in or hidden by darkness.

Question 24

Virtual

Answer 24

Being something in practice.

Question 25

Overture

Answer 25

An initiative toward agreement or action, a proposal.

Question 26

Qualm

Answer 26

A certain feeling of uncertainty or apprehension.