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Vocabulary VIII
English III
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Providing shelter from contact with the outside world; secluded | Cloistered |
| Obligated according to law or equity | Liable |
| Pretend, dissemble to give a false appearance of: include as a false impression | Feign |
| To attack especially with artillary or bombers | Bombardment |
| To recieve due to one's actions "incur her wrath" | Incurred |
| To speak irreverently of God or something sacred. | Blaspheme |
| Tending to dominate. | Domineering |
| Yielding great pleasure or delight; well chosen | Felicitous |
| A fenced area near a stable; fenced in land. | Paddock |
| A fellow countryman; a colleague or associate | Compatriot |
| Pulled tight; Strained nerves | Taut |
| A Knapsack | Rucksack |
| A reinforcing structure built against a wall | Buttress |
| A low sturdy wagon. | Camion |
| An unattached bell tower. | Campanile |
| One who engages in the oppression of all government | Anarchist |
| an owner of a business; one with a legal title to something. | Proprietor |
| absent without permission. | Truant |
| A false notion; a statement or belief based on a false inference. | Fallacy |
| Gradual return to health after illness, injury, or an operation, esp through rest; the period during which such recovery occurs | Convalescent |