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):
  1. chank
  2. debouched
  3. flacker
  4. gnoor
  5. gripple
  6. malpais
  7. merry-go-down
  8. orpid
  9. overdreep
  10. pulque
  11. raggletag
  12. scrappled
  13. smelterlights
  14. snudge
  15. spanceled
  16. starsprent
  17. surbated
  18. toper
  19. throatboll
  20. woodspeck