- 1. (noun) flat piece of wood on which meat is served or carved
A) trenchers
B) venerable
C) artisan
D) mode
- 2. (noun) – a particular type or form of something
A) breeches
B) mode
C) crucible
D) hearth
- 3. (verb) – to feel or cause to feel worry, annoyance, or discontent
A) parasitic
B) crucible
C) fretted
D) breeches
- 4. (adjective) like a parasite that feeds off or lives off other living creatures, flea-like, tic-like, blood sucker
A) fretted
B) venerable
C) parasitic
D) gig
- 5. (noun) a person skilled in an applied art
A) parasitic
B) mode
C) artisan
D) crucible
- 6. (noun) the floor of a fireplace, usually of stone or brick, the fireside
A) hearth
B) crucible
C) mode
D) trenchers
- 7. (adjective) - worthy of respect because of great age
A) venerable
B) artisan
C) mode
D) parasitic
- 8. (noun) – a container used for heating substances, such as metals, to high temperatures
A) hearth
B) mode
C) crucible
D) gig
- 9. (noun) – a light, two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse
A) trenchers
B) gig
C) parasitic
D) artisan
- 10. (noun) – knee-length trousers for men
A) trenchers
B) hearth
C) breeches
D) fretted
- 11. Mr. Lapham was always telling him to give God thanks who had seen fit to make him so good a/an _____________________.
A) venerable
B) hearth
C) mode
D) artisan
- 12. ‘And, boy, don’t you go get all _________________ up over what’s after all nothing but an order for silver.’
A) mode
B) hearth
C) gig
D) fretted
- 13. It was indeed old-fashioned, more elaborate than the present _________________.
A) trenchers
B) mode
C) gig
D) fretted
- 14. Johnny noted the Hancock arms on the door of the ________________.
A) gig
B) crucible
C) hearth
D) mode
- 15. Mrs. Lapham was already scraping the __________________ clean, getting on with her work.
A) breeches
B) artisan
C) crucible
D) trenchers
- 16. Mr. Lapham, as befitted his _________________ years and his dignity as master of the house, sat in an armchair at the head of the table.
A) hearth
B) parasitic
C) crucible
D) venerable
- 17. I’d like to get you in a __________________, thought Dove, and melt you down.
A) mode
B) artisan
C) gig
D) crucible
- 18. Whatever a ‘pig-of-a-louse’ was, it did describe the whitish, __________________ Dove.
A) venerable
B) artisan
C) parasitic
D) fretted
- 19. Johnny was already in his leather ____________________, pulling on his coarse shirt, tucking in the tails.
A) gig
B) breeches
C) hearth
D) mode
- 20. In the kitchen he could see his formidable mistress bent double over the ______________________________.
A) crucible
B) hearth
C) venerable
D) parasitic
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