Vocab set !

Question 1

palimpsest

Answer 1

manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain.

Question 2

debase

Answer 2

reduce something in value and or degrade

Question 3

pedantic

Answer 3

of or like a pendant

Question 4

reproach

Answer 4

address someone in such a way to show disapproval of disappointment

Question 5

undulate

Answer 5

move of go with a smooth up and down motion

Question 6

Demure

Answer 6

reserved modest and shy usually a woman

Question 7

Incognito

Answer 7

having ones true identity concealed

Question 8

shroud

Answer 8

a length of cloth or an enveloping garment in which a dead person is wrapped for burial.

Question 9

furtive

Answer 9

attempting to avoid notice or attention, typically because of guilt or a belief that discovery would lead to trouble; secretive.

Question 10

pious

Answer 10

devoutly religious

Question 11

sedate

Answer 11

calm dignified unhurried

Question 12

sentry

Answer 12

a soldier stationed to keep guard or to control access to a place.

Question 13

salvage

Answer 13

rescue (a wrecked or disabled ship or its cargo) from loss at sea.

Question 14

anachronism

Answer 14

a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned.

Question 15

lugubrious

Answer 15

looking or sounding sad and dismal.

Question 16

ingratiate