Quiz: A Life, a Knife, and a Strife

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* 1. wraith

retributory punishment for an offense or a crime

an intense feeling

the exact likeness of a living person seen usually just before death as an apparition

an unusual or unexpected sight

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* 2. antemortem

without death

following death

preceding death

causing death

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* 3. zydeco

a Louisianian descended from French-speaking immigrants from Acadia

an aromatic fermented Louisiana tobacco used in smoking mixtures

a small rectangular wind instrument

popular music of southern Louisiana that combines tunes of French origin with elements of Caribbean music and the blues and that features guitar, washboard, and accordion

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* 4. Elysium

the abode of the blessed after death in classical mythology

the abode of the damned after death in classical mythology

the citadel of a Russian city

Cinderella’s Castle

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* 5. coulter

a small-caliber bullet

a short-barreled pocket pistol

a cutting tool (as a knife or sharp disc) that is attached to the beam of a plow, makes a vertical cut in the surface, and permits clean separation and effective covering of the soil and materials being turned under

a ghostly figure

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* 6. murine

of or relating to a murid genus (Mus) or its subfamily (Murinae) which includes the common household rats and mice

any of various 2- or 4-wheeled carriages used especially in Russia

a political association

relating to or being a system of medicine that aims to combat disease by using remedies (as drugs or surgery) which produce effects that are different from or incompatible with those of the disease being treated

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* 7. snickersnee

an unforeseen combination of karma and dogma

a husband's interest upon the death of his wife in the real property of an estate that she either solely owned or inherited

a large knife

Russian for “take your magic kingdom and stuff it”

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* 8. Bolshevik

a member of the extremist wing of the Russian Social Democratic party that seized power in Russia by the Revolution of November 1917

a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state

the communism especially of western European Communist parties that was marked by a willingness to reach power through coalitions and by independence from Soviet leadership

a male dancer with Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet Company

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* 9. assassin

Charles A. Bronson

Charles J. Guiteau

Charles C. Stuart

Charles L. Oswald

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* 10. gadwall

cricket

dog

mouse

duck