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1. Cavalier (kavva-LEER) treatment most likely involves:
   race horses
   math courses
   a really pimped-up ride
   arrogance and pride

2. Hagiography (haggy-OG-ruh-fee or hay-jee-OG-ruh-fee) involves study and writing about:
   ghost tales and witches
   staples and stitches
   saints and their lives
   kings and their wives

3. Immolation (emmo-LAY-shun) involves:
   gathering in, like netting of sturgeons
   sacrifice, like burning of virgins
   being tied down, unable to move
   tightly fitting, like a tongue in a groove

4. Lubricious (loo-BRISH-us) means:
   well read, quite smart
   sharp-pointed, like a dart
   soaked, as after dousing
   sexually arousing

5. The word loess (much like the name Lois) refers to:
   a loamy deposit of soil
   an unpaid period of toil
   a legal debt to be paid
   a German troopers' raid

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