5 Written Questions

1. teasing; good-natured joking
2. to improve someone morally; to instruct
3. joking; humorous
4. miserable; wretched
5. misleading; deceptive

5 Matching Questions

1. weighty
2. harass
3. vanquish
4. salutatory
5. obscurant

1. a of utmost importance
2. b a welcoming address, as at a graduation
3. c a person who tries to prevent the spread of knowledge
4. d to defeat
5. e to annoy; to bother

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. having a bad taste or smell; stale; repulsive
   1. banter
   2. rancid
   3. panacea
   4. harass
2. covered with thin sheets, often plastic
   1. panacea
   2. rancid
   3. laminated
   4. banter
3. uneasy; nauseated
   1. queasy
   2. debase
   3. harass
   4. edify
4. clear; definite
   1. negligent
   2. unequivocal
   3. weighty
   4. vanquish
5. uneducated
   1. negligent
   2. illiterate
   3. debase
   4. banter

5 True/False Questions

1. panacea → a cure-all; an answer for all problems

   True        False

2. debase → to lower in rank; to humiliate

   True        False

3. tantamount → equivalent to

   True        False

4. malcontent → (noun) one who is dissatisfied (adj.) the quality used to describe someone who is dissatisfied

   True        False

5. garble → to distort

   True        False