| Question |
Answer |
| characteristics of childhood; juvenile; immature and silly or trivial | puerile |
| very learned, scholarly | erudite |
| trickery | chicanery |
| to feign illness in order to escape work | malinger |
| a characteristic of peculiarity | idiosyncracy |
| idealistic but unpractical | quixotic |
| by secret or stealthy means | surreptitious |
| pertaining to, indicative of, or suggesting death; hence gruesome, grim, ghastly, horrible | macabre |
| extremely biting or sarcastic, figuritavely caustic or bitter | vitriolic |
| in a hidden manner | sub rosa |
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