Question

In an effort to overcome the overwhelming boredom of his ____________, stone-floored prison cell, Tobias exercised his knowledge by identifying each insect he saw by its Latin ____________. The only alternative was to listen to the prisoner in the neighboring cell shout the same ____________ that had failed to convince the judge that he was innocent. In several weeks, the repetitive, daily rant began to sound like a[n] ____________ to Tobias, perhaps a spell that would melt the bars of the noisy prisoner’s cell. The two prisoners conversed occasionally. Tobias, a well-traveled, renowned explorer, related tales from his ____________ life, but the conversation inevitably returned to the topic of the other man’s wrongful imprisonment.

Use:

stygian

brigand

incantation

cosmopolitan

carte blanche

nomenclature

sophistry

Answer 1

In an effort to overcome the overwhelming boredom of his STYGIAN, stone-floored prison cell, Tobias exercised his knowledge by identifying each insect he saw by its Latin NOMENCLATURE . The only alternative was to listen to the prisoner in the neighboring cell shout the same SOPHISTRY that had failed to convince the judge that he was innocent. In several weeks, the repetitive, daily rant began to sound like a[n] INCANTATION to Tobias, perhaps a spell that would melt the bars of the noisy prisoner’s cell. The two prisoners conversed occasionally. Tobias, a well-traveled, renowned explorer, related tales from his COSMOPOLITAN life, but the conversation inevitably returned to the topic of the other man’s wrongful imprisonment.