Vocab Quiz (FINAL BOSS: GORLOCK THE DESTROYER)👹

What is your name young hero?
Before beginning your journey, you decide to spend the day conducting research on the origins of Gorlock the Destroyer. In one particularly dusty novel relic, it describes the monster as a "juggernaut." Define juggernaut:
An uniquely large walnut
An unstoppable force
Samy Belebassi
You will also need something for your journey to defeat Gorlock The Destroyer. Solve the following riddle to start your heroic path: "I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?"
After your exhausting voyage through wilderness and dessert alike, you finally come across a hydraulic bridge serving as the grand entrance to Gorlock's castle. After quick inspection of the control panel, you see that many cables have been rewired improperly. Match the following "cables" to activate the draw bridge and execute the wench.
Clandestine
Sprightly in manner or appearance, lively
Braggadocio
Something in its early development, not fully formed
Acerbic
Given to or characterized by deception or falsehood or divergence from absolute truth
Frenetic
Cavernous
Inchoate
Sharply or bitingly critical, sarcastic, or ironic in temper, mood, or tone
Verdure
Fast and energetic in a wild and uncontrolled way
Haberdasher
Intended or understood by a select group of people with specialized knowledge
Sycophant
Greenness of growing vegetation
Jaunty
Existing or being everywhere at the same time
Zealot
Obstinately defiant of authority or restraint
Defenestration
The action of throwing someone out the window
Kakistocracy
Marked by, held in, or conducted with secrecy usually for nefarious, evil or illicit purposes.
Proclivity
Pompous or extravagant in language, style or manner, especially as a way to impress.
Wistful
A dealer in men's clothing and accessories
Recalcitrant
It does not follow; an inference that does not follow from the premises, a statement that does not follow logically from or is not clearly related to anything previously said
Lugubrious
Full of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy
Non-sequitur
Moral depravity
Ubiquitous
Empty boasting or arrogant pretension
Mendacious
Government by the worst people
Yawning
An inclination or predisposition toward something, especially something objectionable
Quintessential
Mournful
Gradiloquent
Perfectly typical or representative of a particular kind of person or thing
Esoteric
A zealous or fanatical person
Xenophobia
Servile self-serving flatterer
Turpitude
Having a fear or hatred for strangers or foreigners
You cautiously enter the castle to find Gorlock spread across the banquet hall devouring its meal. It glances up at you with no care as for your unwanted presence. You unsheathe your weapon and run toward its massive body. It suddenly swings on you ready to engage in battle. Match the following words correctly to parry its vicious attacks and land the final blow:
Excoriate
Lacking life, spirit or zest
Honorificabilitudinitatibus
At the point of death
Overmorrow
A slight smile
Smilet
Used as a verb in Shakespeare's work, meaning to thrash or cudgel
Credulous
Given to rambling or tedious talking
Bucolic
The day after tomorrow
Hiems
This is a verb for when it's pouring rain
Fatuous
The state of being able to achieve honors
Bastinado
Stupid or clod-pated
Ken
Marked by impulsive vehemence or passion
Ticklebrain
To tear the skin off or to censure scathingly
Impetuous
Personification of winter
Hoary
The range of perception, understanding or knowledge
Nexus
Pastoral (related to shepherds or herdsmen)
Clay-brained
The excitement associated with a successful beginning
Lackadaisical
Ready to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence
Dispunge
A drunkard
Garrulous
Complacently or inanely foolish, silly
Puke-stocking
Connection, link
Fleshment
Stockings that are dyed deep bluish-black or dark brown, leading to the term “puke color.”
Moribund
Extremely old
Pareidolia
The tendency to associate a specific or meaningful image with a random or ambiguous visual
Defeated; bloodied and bruised, Gorlock mumbles incomprehensible words as it slowly dies on the cracked banquet hall. You pull out a device that translates yapping. Solve the following questions to decipher what Gorlock is trying to say:
Which sentence properly uses the word "JUIBASCUASBC" (Auspicious)?
They said it was an auspicious moon.
The bacon was auspicious.
Which sentence properly uses the word "JUDIBVSDV" (Deleterious)?
The way she talked was arrogantly deleterious.
The drug has no deleterious effects on patients.
Which sentence properly uses the word "UWFBVUIWV" (Ostentatious)?
That first house was horribly ostentatious.
I swung the bat ostentatiously, much to my dismay.
CONGRATULATIONS!
You have successfully defeated the treacherous evil that has tormented the happy people of Marlborough Station. They will never forget your bravery young hero!
П��Epilogue💫
The townsfolk are sincerely grateful for your help. They soon discover you are on an adventurer expedition and are travelling under an alias. What is your true name?
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