5 Written Questions

1. praise or flattery that is excessive
2. to encourage, assist, especially something wrong
3. sparkling, twinkling, exceptionally brilliant
4. a loud ringing, sound; to make a loud, ringing noise
5. tending to produce a strong feelling or response; irritating

5 Matching Questions

1. specious
2. enhance
3. nebulous
4. impugn
5. florid

1. a to call into question; to attack as false
2. b resembling a cloud, vague, confused, indistinct
3. c deceptive, apparently good or valid but lacking real merit
4. d highly colored, excessively ornate, showy
5. e to raise to a higher degree; to increase the value of

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. marked by conspicuous or pretentious display, showy
   1. deleterious
   2. imperious
   3. ostentatious
   4. annotation
2. to break the surface of the water
   1. sear
   2. abate
   3. novice
   4. broach
3. to make less in amount, degree; to subside
   1. satiate
   2. abet
   3. aver
   4. abate
4. without hope, beyond consolation
   1. disconsolate
   2. dispassionate
   3. discursive
   4. disseminate
5. prudent, shrewdly conceived and developed, artful
   1. salient
   2. foist
   3. novice
   4. politic

5 True/False Question

1. corpulent → possible, dependent on uncertain events or conditions
   

   True        False

2. salient → to encourage, assist, especially something wrong
   

   True        False

3. inculcate → to arrange in order for some specific purpose
   

   True        False

4. bedlam → a state or scene of uproar and confusion
   

   True        False

5. disseminate → to place into a lower position; to assign, refer
   

   True        False