1. "Eleemosynary" means B., "charitable". Huh. Curiously, this one word even has an entire webpage dedicated to it here.
2. C.; an "eyrie" is defined as "the nest of a bird of prey" - in a building, a very high lookout-point.
3. "Sybaritic" means B., indulgently, luxuriously hedonistic. Hope you looked that up in your Funk & Wagnalls, dears.
4. The dagger was stored in a protective case consisting of a round base and glass dome, A..
5. A koolakamba is D., a species of African ape. (What made the definition such a vital clue is that the ape is distinguished by its nearly bald head and black hands, the former characteristic pointing to a certain character, the latter - black hands - being symbolic of the fact that he was guilty.)
6. A cypripedium is B., a flower shaped like a lady's slipper, believe it or not. (You could kinda get that from the root words, couldn't ya.)
7. A.; a "chiaroscuro" is an interesting, artistic pattern/arrangement of light and (particularly) shadows.
8. Well, A., duh - though B. and C. cannot be categorically counted out from inclusion in the vernissage crowd (not to be confused, of course, with "verdigris", which is D.).
9. A Larousse is D., a brand of French dictionary - purportedly the most renowned and reliable brand. Personally, though, I don't see what's so great about Larousse - their reference works were never very thorough or helpful in my old French class, and we always had to move on to another dictionary to get our questions answered.
10. "Lacustrine" means B., "lake-related". Yes, there is actually a word that means "lake-related". (I don't know about Polly, but I don't think that's such a hot word.)
Tough nut to crack. If you got five out of ten, you did fairly well; seven or eight would be truly impressive.
Bonus: As David Lyke would tell you, anyone in the know knows that draperies are never to be called "drapes".
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