Question: In Victorian times, fashionable ladies (disarrayed, incarcerted) their waist in tight corsets to achieve a chic “hourglass” figure.

Answer: incarcerated

Question: During the 19th century, it was fashionable to spend a few weeks in the fall hunting (grouse, nettles), pheasants, and other game birds.

Answer: grouse

Question: Comfortably (recumbent, frenetic) in the shade of the elm tree, I watched the members of the football teams go through a long, hard workout.

Answer: recumbent

Question: The affairs of our city are in such (disarray, flotsam) that the state may have to intervene to restore some semblance of order.

Answer: disarray

Question: Before the ceremony began, we all bowed our heads and hoped for unity, peace, and (concord, atrophy) among all nations

Answer: concord

Question: We were fascinated by the (mordant, frenetic) scene on the floor of the stock exchange as brokers struggled to keep up with sudden price changes.

Answer: frenetic

Question: I have always regarded our schools and colleges as citadels of learning and (bastions, stratagems) against ignorance and superstition.

Answer: bastions

Question: Do you really think that those (jocular, recumbent) remarks are appropriate on such a solemn occasion?

Answer: jocular

Question: In the shelter, I saw for the first time people who’d been beaten and discouraged by life —the so-called derelicts and (flotsam, incumbents) of the great city

Answer: flotsam

Question: The only way we’ll really be able to increase productivity is to offer our employees a few solid (frenetic, pecuniary) incentives to work harder.

Answer: pecuniary