Lemony's Definitions 3 Trivia Quiz

Answer: widow

Aunt Josephine is a dowager. From WordWeb: "A widow holding property received from her deceased husband".

Dowager can also be used for aristocratic or royal elderly women. For example, Catherine of Aragon was referred to as the "Princess Dowager of Wales" or "Dowager Princess of Wales" after her marriage to Henry the VIII of England was annulled.

Answer: while Aunt Josephine wasn't looking

The word surreptitiously comes from the Latin word surripere, which means 'to take away secretly'. Some synonyms for the word are furtive, sneaky, sly, and secretive.

Answer: pointing out that I'm wrong, which annoys me

Aunt Josephine says to the orphans, "I can't believe you would dare to disagree with a man who has eye problems." Then Klaus says, "I have eye problems, and you're disagreeing with me." This is when she says the quote above.

Some synonyms for impertinent are audacious, saucy, cheeky, insolent, brazen, and fresh. Another meaning for impertinent can be irrelevant, but that is not the definition used in the quote.

Answer: lots of

This word comes from the Latin word copia, which means abundance. Some other synonyms for copious are plentiful, bountiful, ample, generous, substantial, and voluminous.

Answer: unbelievably husky; no pain at all

This word comes from the land of Brobdingnag, a country in "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift, where everyone was enormous. An antonym derived from the same book is Lilliputian, a type of tiny people who lived in the country of Lilliput.

In the book, this happened when the Baudelaires were trying to get to Curdled Cave to save Aunt Josephine. They needed one of Captain Sham's (a.k.a. Count Olaf) sailboats to get across, but his associate who looked like neither a man nor a woman was stopping them. He or she is enormous, and doesn't seem to be able to speak.

Answer: get them to stop tearing their hair out in worry

Some synonyms for mollify are soothe, calm, pacify, and placate. It comes from the Latin word mollis, which means soft.

Here is Mr. Snicket's advice: If you ever need to get to Curdled Cave in a hurry, do not, under any circumstances, steal a boat and attempt to sail across Lake Lachrymose during a hurricane, because it is very dangerous and the chances of your survival are practically zero. You should especially not do this if, like the Baudelaire orphans, you have only a vague idea of how to work a sailboat.

Answer: all the creepy, scary words you can think of put together

The one-word synonym I came across the most as I was looking through my sources was surreal. In this case, I'm assuming it was so scary and creepy, that it was hard to imagine it was real. Other synonyms are dream-like, illusive, and delusional.

Answer: in a way which almost threw Aunt Josephine and the Baudelaire youngsters to their doom

This word comes from the Latin word precārius which means 'obtained by entreaty' or 'uncertain'. Some synonyms are rickety, unstable, unsteady, wobbly, tottery, insecure, and shaky.

Answer: what Count Olaf used to do when he was about your age

Abhorrent has a wide array of synonyms. Here are some: loathsome, detestable, horrid, repulsive, obscene, vile, nefarious, despicable, abominable, and wretched.

The Baudelaires' father had a cousin who used to find burning ants with her magnifying glass entertaining. Violet remembered the story and used it to signal for help when her siblings and Aunt Josephine were stuck on Lake Lachrymose with the leeches.

Answer: relieved

The word assuage comes from the Latin word suavis, which means sweet, or delightful. It can also be used to mean satisfied, as in hunger or thirst, or pacified. Some other synonyms are alleviated, mollified, dulcified, comforted, and eased.

This happened when Sunny bit Count Olaf's fake peg leg, and Mr. Poe finally believed that Captain Sham was really Count Olaf.

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