WORD QUIZ ONE SOLUTION

1. purgatory
Correct Answer: purgatory: An intermediate state where souls are
made fit for paradise or heaven byexpiatory suffering.
mien: The external appearance or manner of a person.
dialect: Forms of speech collectively that are peculiar to the
people of a particulardistrict.
delusion: Mistaken conviction, especially when more or less enduring.
2. baritone
velvety: Marked by lightness and softness.
callow: Without experience of the world.
statuesque: Having the grace, pose, or quietude of a statue.
Correct Answer: baritone: Having a register higher than bass and
lower than tenor.
3. profiteer
miser: A person given to saving and hoarding unduly.
replica: A duplicate executed by the artist himself, and
regarded, equally with thefirst, as an original.
garrison: The military force stationed in a fort, town, or other
place for its defense.
Correct Answer: profiteer: One who profits.
4. secession
impertinence: Rudeness.
armful: As much as can be held in the arm or arms.
Correct Answer: secession: Voluntary withdrawal from fellowship,
especially from political or religiousbodies.
alienation: Estrangement.
5. mellifluous
further: More distant or advanced.
low: spirited
Correct Answer: mellifluous: Sweetly or smoothly flowing.
irreverent: Showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration,
especially for sacredthings.
6. likely
Correct Answer: likely: Plausible.
sedentary: Involving or requiring much sitting.
morose: Gloomy.
adverse: Opposing or opposed.
7. ambidextrous
Correct Answer: ambidextrous: Having the ability of using both
hands with equal skill or ease.
torturous: Marked by extreme suffering.
explicit: Definite.
subservient: Servilely following another's behests.
8. proffer
disagree: To be opposite in opinion.
incite: To rouse to a particular action.
Correct Answer: proffer: To offer to another for acceptance.
recede: To move back or away.
9. prohibitionist
conjecture: A guess.
nurture: The process of fostering or promoting growth.
Correct Answer: prohibitionist: One who favors the prohibition by
law of the manufacture and sale ofalcoholic beverages.
frailty: Liability to be broken or destroyed.
10. missal
Correct Answer: missal: The book containing the service for the
celebration of mass.
inherence: The state of being permanently existing in something.
loneliness: Solitude.
Your Answer: doe: The female of the deer.