Question 1

n. negligent; weak

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slack

Question 2

n. overwhelm or overflow

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inundation

Question 3

v. deciding a dispute

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arbitrating

Question 4

n. confession

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shrift

Question 5

n. prayers

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orisons

Question 6

n. consolation; alleviation of grief or pain

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solace

Question 7

v. to lead by deception

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beguiled

Question 8

n. disease

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pestilence

Question 9

n. something that foreshadows a future event

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presage

Question 10

n. severe poverty

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penury

Question 11

v. to beg for earnestly and anxiously

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beseech

Question 12

n. one who sells and prepares drugs; druggist

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apothecary

Question 13

adj. indifferent; removed or distant

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aloof

Question 14

n. funeral or burial rite

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obsequies

Question 15

adj. disdainfully proud

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haughty

Question 16

v. to examine in detail; to study

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peruse

Question 17

v. to deposit a dead body in the earth or in a tomb

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interred

Question 18

adj. not prosperous

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inauspicious

Question 19

v. to imply the opposite

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contradict

Question 20

n. uncertainty

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ambiguities

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