Vocabulary quiz
Ten of these words are from Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian (1985), and ten are from Arthur Golding’s translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (1567):
- chank
- debouched
- flacker
- gnoor
- gripple
- malpais
- merry-go-down
- orpid
- overdreep
- pulque
- raggletag
- scrappled
- smelterlights
- snudge
- spanceled
- starsprent
- surbated
- toper
- throatboll
- woodspeck