5 Written Questions

1. a wooden framework with holes for the head and hands, in which an offender was imprisoned and exposed to public abuse (51)
2. weather) unpleasantly cold or wet (4)
3. close kinship (166)
4. sharing a common border; touching (233)
5. wanting to avoid activity or exertion; lazy (9)

5 Matching Questions

1. eldritch
2. surmise
3. caper
4. fervent
5. mien

1. a suppose that something is true without having evidence to confirm it (248)
2. b displaying a passionate intensity; hot, burning, glowing (195)
3. c skip or dance about in a lively or playful way (96)
4. d weird and sinister or ghostly, impish (100)
5. e a person's look or manner, esp. one of a particular kind indicating their character or mood (224)

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. hamper or hinder (195)
   1. vixen
   2. prate
   3. torpor
   4. cumber
2. a sudden feeling of distress, anxiety, or some other unpleasant emotion (135)
   1. blight
   2. epoch
   3. prick
   4. perforce
3. spoil, harm, or destroy (216)
   1. enigma
   2. blight
   3. gibe
   4. prick
4. dark-skinned (241)
   1. spectre
   2. swarthy
   3. scantly
   4. palsy
5. paralysis; a condition of incapacity or helplessness (17)
   1. palsy
   2. prolix
   3. prate
   4. alloy

5 True/False Questions

1. emphatically → speak or write at length or in detail (16)

   True        False

2. comport → conduct oneself; behave (132)

   True        False

3. mollify → the quality of having strong moral principles; honesty and decency (230)

   True        False

4. potentate → talk foolishly or tediously about something (2)

   True        False

5. vixen → a spiteful or quarrelsome woman (3)

   True        False