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1.         gaunt – bleak and desolate [in a person, thin and emaciated]

2.        cupola – a small, usually domed, structure on top of a roof

                             

3.        baize – a thick, felt-like cloth used chiefly to cover gaming tables

4.        carbuncle – a deep red garnet (gemstone) [also a “painful, localized, pus-producing bacterial infection of the skin” – Can you see why this “bump” would be called a “carbuncle”?]

5.        elicit – to bring or draw out; to call forth

6.        quaint - odd, especially in an old-fashioned way; unfamiliar or unusual; strange

 

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7.        callous (adj.) – insensitive; hard and unfeeling (like a callous on your hand from working hard; personalities can be callous, too.)

8.        ken – range of vision; view, perception; understanding

9.        solitude – state of being alone; isolation

10.        fortnight  - 2 weeks [from 14 nights in Middle English]

11.    tenor – general sense; drift or purpose; continuous course

12.    predecease (noun) – death before   (verb) to die before

13.    superscribe(d) – to write something on the outside or upper part, as of a letter

14.    sinister – suggesting or threatening evil; ominous; frightening

15.    stringent – strict; severe; imposing rigorous standards

16.    disquiet(ed) – to trouble; to bother

17.    inscrutable – difficult or impossible to understand

18.    recluse – hermit; one who lives in seclusion; one who lives alone away from other people

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