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Chapter 1-7
Question | Answer |
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inquisitive | Given to inquiry, research, or asking questions; eager for knowledge; intellectually curious: |
Faun | one of a class of rural deities represented as men with the ears, horns, tail, and later also the hind legs of a goat. |
Melancholy | a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression. |
Bacchus | (in ancient Greece and Rome) a god of wine and giver of ecstasy, identified with Dionysus |
Merely | only as specified and nothing more; simply: "merely a matter of form." |
Hoax | something intended to deceive or defraud: "The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax." |
Spiteful | full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: |
Jeered | to speak or shout derisively; scoff or gibe rudely: "Don't jeer unless you can do better." |