VOCAB 5A & 5B

Question 0

Executioner

Answer 0

A person who carries out a convict’s death sentence

Question 1

*Deluge

Answer 1

A flood (of water for example); an overwhelming amount of something

Question 2

*Gaunt

Answer 2

Being thin and bony from hunger or suffering

Question 3

*Grotesque

Answer 3

Very ugly, deformed, and monstrous

Question 4

Haste

Answer 4

Excessive speed; quickness

Question 5

*Immense

Answer 5

Huge; Colossal

Question 6

Inferno

Answer 6

A place or state that resembles the underworld, especially in great raging heat or fire

Question 7

*Inquisitive

Answer 7

Asking many questions; curious about other peoples business.

Question 8

Loom

Answer 8

To appear suddenly, often with a large, strange form.

Question 9

*Lunatic

Answer 9

An insane person

Question 10

Menagerie

Answer 10

A collection of wild or foreign animals kept especially for exhibition.

Question 11

*Mourn

Answer 11

To feel sorrow esp. over one’s death.

Question 12

Parcel

Answer 12

A package

Question 13

*Peculiar

Answer 13

Strange or odd; unusual

Question 14

Plummet

Answer 14

To fall straight down; to plunge

Question 15

Shudder

Answer 15

To tremble with fear or horror

Question 16

*Silhouette

Answer 16

A picture of the outline of an object filled in with a solid color.

Question 17

Slay

Answer 17

To put to death violently or in great numbers.

Question 18

Smother

Answer 18

To overcome or kill by depriving air, or exposing to smoke or fumes.

Question 19

*Transform

Answer 19

To change completely in appearance or form.