Words From Heart Of Darkness

Question 0

Bight

Answer 0

A curve or recess in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature.

A loop of rope, as distinct from the ropes ends.

Question 1

Recrudescence

Answer 1

Break out again; recur

Question 2

Alacrity

Answer 2

Brisk and cheerful readiness

Question 3

Rapacious (rapacity)

Answer 3

Aggressively greedy or grasping.

Question 4

Folly

Answer 4

Lack of good senses; foolishness.

A foolish act, idea or practice.

A costly ornamental building with no practical purpose, esp. a tower or mock-gothic ruin built in a large garden or park.

Question 5

Obliquely

Answer 5

Not in a direct way; indirectly.

In an oblique direction; slant wise.

Question 6

Effaced

Answer 6

Erase (a mark) from a surface.

Make oneself appear insignificant or inconspicuous.

Question 7

Moribund

Answer 7

(Of a person) at the point of death.

(Of a thing) in terminal decline; lacking vitality of vigor.

Question 8

Propitiate

Answer 8

Win or regain the favor of (a god, spirit, or person) by doing something that pleases them

Question 9

Indissoluble

Answer 9

Unable to be destroyed; lasting.

Question 10

Volubility

Answer 10

The quality of talking fluently, readily, or incessantly

; talkativeness.

Question 11

Trenchant

Answer 11

Vigorous or incisive in experience or style.

Question 12

Supercilious

Answer 12

Behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others

Question 13

Prevaricate

Answer 13

Speak or act in an evasive way.

Question 14

Indefatigable

Answer 14

(Of a person or their efforts) persisting tirelessly.

Question 15

Servile

Answer 15

Having or showing an excessive willingness to serve or please others.

Of characteristic of a slave or slaves.

Question 16

Epoch

Answer 16

A period of time in history or a persons life, typically one marked by notable events or particular characteristics.

The beginning of a distinctive period in history of someone or something.

(Geology) a division of time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself subdivided into ages, corresponding to a series in chronostratigraphy.

(Astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date relative to which planetary or stellar measurements are expressed.

Question 17

Jocose

Answer 17

Playful or humorous

Question 18

Fecund

Answer 18

Producing or capable of producing an abundance of offspring or new growth; fertile.

(Of a woman or women) capable of becoming pregnant and giving birth.

Question 19

Locution

Answer 19

A word or phrase, esp. with regard to style or idiom.

A persons style of speech.