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51. Is there a difference between the words ignorant and stupid?
52. What is the word, imprimis? (From Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew)
53. What does the word alchemy mean? (From Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter)
54. What is an estuary? (From Conrad's Heart of Darkness)
55. What or who is a scullion? (From Shakespeare's Hamlet)
56. I used the word reoccur in a paper and my teacher said it should have been recur. Can you tell me the difference?
57. What is a schism? (From Swift's Gulliver's Travels)
58. What does it mean to be flabbergasted?
59. What does it mean to be salubrious? (From Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights)
60. When should I write the word lose and when should I write loose?
61. What is a replication? (From Shakespeare's Hamlet)
62. What does ad infinitum mean? (From Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre)
63. What is vicissitude? (From Hawthorne's The House of Seven Gables)
64. Do loath and loathe have different meanings?
65. Can you define indolent? (From Wharton's House of Mirth)
66. What does the word replete mean? (From Shakespeare's Henry V)
67. What are orisons? (From Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet)
68. I got marked down on a paper for using the word irregardless. Why?
69. What does it mean to be ephemeral?
70. What does it mean to be placid? (From Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre)
71. What is a paroxysm? (From Stoker's Dracula)
72. What does it mean to be fastidious? (From Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo)
73. My English teacher got really mad when I said I was nauseous. Why?
74. What does it mean to be farinaceous? (From Tolstoy's Anna Karenina)
75. What does dejection mean? (From Shelley's Frankenstein)
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