Vocab set #2

Question 1

Noun: Great light, luster or brilliance

Answer 1

Splendor

Question 2

Synonyms: Magnificence
yet a flood of intense rays rolled throughout, and bathed the whole in a ghastly _______.

Answer 2

Splendor

Question 3

Adjective: Of, or relating to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing.

Answer 3

Auditory

Question 4

Synonyms: Hearing
I have spoken of that condition of the ________nerve which rendered all music.

Answer 4

Auditory

Question 5

Noun: Plural of rhapsody

Answer 5

Rhapsodies

Question 6

Synonyms: Ecstasy
The words of one of these ________ I have easily remembered.

Answer 6

Rhapsodies

Question 7

Adjective: Inauspicious, ominous, unlucky, illegitimate (as in bar sinister)

Answer 7

Sinister

Question 8

Synonyms: Ominous
I will not deny that when I called to mind the _______ countenance of the person whom I met upon the staircase.

Answer 8

Sinister

Question 9

Noun: Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent misfortune or to secure good

Answer 9

Precaution

Question 10

Synonyms: Care
I had no desire to oppose what I regarded as at best but a harmless _________.

Answer 10

Precaution

Question 11

Noun: Something so lacking in necessary qualities as to inspire ridicule; a laughing-stock.

Answer 11

Mockery

Question 12

Synonyms: Ridicule
the _______ of a faint blush upon the bosom and the face

Answer 12

Mockery

Question 13

Adjective: (of time) Having passed or slipped by

Answer 13

Elasped

Question 14

Synonyms: Expired
made our way into the scarcely less gloomy apartments of the upper portion of the house
Some days of bitter grief having ______

Answer 14

Elasped

Question 15

Noun: Appearance, especially the features and expression of the face

Answer 15

Countenance

Question 16

Synonyms: Tolerate
The pallor of his ______ had assumed

Answer 16

Countenance

Question 17

Adjective: Like a ghost in appearance; death-like; pale; pallid; dismal

Answer 17

Ghastly

Question 18

Synoynms: Awful
a more ______ hue.

Answer 18

Ghastly

Question 19

Noun: A character; aspect (figuratively)

Answer 19

Hue

Question 20

Synoynms: Hue
a more ghastly ____.

Answer 20

Hue

Question 21

Noun: The property of being big and strong

Answer 21

Huskiness

Question 22

Synoynms: Hoarseness
The once occasional ________ of his tone was heard no more

Answer 22

Huskiness

Question 23

Adjective: Trembling, quivering, or shaking

Answer 23

Tremulous

Question 24

Synonyms: Shaky
and a _____ quaver, as if of extreme terror, habitually characterized his utterance.

Answer 24

Tremulous

Question 25

Noun: A trembling shake

Answer 25

Quaver

Question 26

Synonyms: Shake and a tremulous _____, as if of extreme terror, habitually characterized his utterance.

Answer 26

Quaver

Question 27

Noun: Something spoken

Answer 27

Utterance

Question 28

Synoyns: Statement as if of extreme terror, habitually characterized his utterance.

Answer 28

Utterance

Question 29

Noun: Power or the use of power; sovereignty over something; stewardship, supremacy

Answer 29

Dominion

Question 30

Synonyms: Rule, Athority I struggled to reason off the nervousness which had _______ over me.

Answer 30

Dominion

Question 31

Verb: Simple past and past participle of endeavor (us)

Answer 31

Endeavored

Question 32

Synonyms: Attempted I threw on my clothes with haste and _______ to arouse myself from the pitiable condition into which I had fallen

Answer 32

Endeavored#16

Question 33

Synonyms: Gauntly His countenance was, as usual, ______ wan

Answer 33

Cadaverously

Question 34

Adverb: In a cadaverous manner; like a cadaver

Answer 34

Cadaverously

Question 35

Adjective: (of light) Lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble

Answer 35

Wan

Question 36

Synonyms: Pale His countenance was, as usual, cadaverously ____ — but, moreover, there was a species of mad hilarity in his eyes

Answer 36

Wan

Question 37

Noun: Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotions, in a wide range from joy to panic but usually including anxiety or fear

Answer 37

Hysteria

Question 38

Synonyms: Frenzor an evidently restrained ______ in his whole demeanor.

Answer 38

Hysteria

Question 39

Synonyms: Behavior an evidently restrained hysteria in his whole demeanor.

Answer 39

Demeanor

Question 40

Noun: The social, non-verbal behaviours (such as body language and facial expressions) that are characteristic of a person (american spelling)

Answer 40

Demeanor