n. a modern and an ancient Greek coin (*) complaisance (*) aspirant (*) breaker (*) drachma

n. a casket, coffer or repository in which relics are kept (*) optics (*) subjection (*) reliquary (*) acumen

n. one who lives by robbery and plunder (*) aroma (*) brigand (*) prudence (*) exigency

n. a government administered by ecclesiastics (*) theocracy (*) cadence (*) affront (*) nausea

n. constraint, as by force or authority (*) compression (*) neocracy (*) overweight (*) distinction

n. any dialectic pronunciation of English, especially that of the Irish people (*) intemperance (*) palinode (*) brogue (*) dissension

n. the branch of anthropology concerned with the systematic investigation of the relics of man (*) syllabus (*) archaeology (*) transposition (*) sergeant-at-arms

n. a weight suspended by a line to test the verticality of something (*) witling (*) flora (*) sylph (*) plumb

n. an earnest wish for that which is above one's present reach (*) stiletto (*) retinue (*) aspiration (*) abeyance

n. person who loves books (*) tapestry (*) plenitude (*) prescience (*) bibliophile