Architecture, Setting, and Appearance
Time, Authority, and Law
Conflict, Defeat, and Resistance
Social Status, Emotion, and Demeanor I
Social Status, Emotion, and Demeanor II
Communication, Secrecy, and Group Action
100
Something that is unpleasant or offensive to look at.
What is an eyesore?
100
Member of a municipal legislative body (a town or city council), usually ranking below the mayor.
What are aldermen?
100
Defeated thoroughly.
What is vanquished?
100
Past tense of slink: to move in a stealthy, furtive, or sneaking manner.
What is slunk?
100
Inspiring reverence or admiration; majestic
What is august?
100
To disclose or reveal (something private, secret, or previously unknown).
What is divulge?
200
Pale; lacking color or liveliness.
What is pallid?
200
A proclamation of law or command issued by an authority.
What is an edict?
200
(not countable) reckless boldness; foolish bravery.
What is temerity?
200
Of uncertain, indefinite, or unclear character or meaning.
What is vague?
200
An expression of sympathy with a grieving person.
What is condolence?
200
To be full of or swarming with (something).
What is teeming?
300
A blind or shutter made of a row of angled slats.
What are jalousies?/What is a jalousie?
300
The state or quality of lasting forever.
What is perpetuity?
300
Bitterly hostile or antagonistic.
What is virulent?
300
Free from disturbance; calm.
What is tranquil?
300
A very poor person.
What is a pauper?
300
Persons or things existing at the same time as others.
What are contemporaries?
400
Sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor; irritating.
What is acrid?
400
Destroyed utterly; wiped out.
What is obliterated?
400
Prevented someone from accomplishing something; opposed successfully
What is thwarted?
400
Cleared from blame, suspicion, or doubt.
What is vindicated?
400
Flirtatious: characteristic of a woman who attempts to attract the attention and admiration of men.
What is coquettish?
400
A cloth spread over a coffin, hearse, or tomb. Also, something that covers or conceals, especially an atmosphere of gloom.
What is a pall?
500
Are dome-shaped ornamental structures located on top of a larger roof or dome.
What are cupolas?
500
An exemption from a rule or usual requirement; a special allowance or privilege
What is a dispensation?
500
Not allowing entrance or passage; impenetrable. Also, incapable of being injured or impaired; emotionally unmoved.
What is imperviousness?
500
To spread the legs far apart.
What is spraddled?
500
Disturbing and horrifying because of involvement with or depiction of death and injury.
What is macabre?
500
A small group of secret plotters, typically involving political intrigue.
What is a cabal?
600
Unpleasantly moist or wet and often chilly.
What is dank?
600
Trespassed or intruded upon the property, domain, or rights of another.
What is encroached?
600
highly infectious; deadly
What is virulent?
600
Made a ______; a man whose wife is unfaithful to him.
What is cuckolded?
600
The inferred responsibility of privileged people to act with generosity and nobility toward those less privileged.
What is noblesse oblige?