5 Written Questions

1. adjective
   1. of an unnatural or sickly pallor; pallid; lacking color: His wan face suddenly flushed.
   2. showing or suggesting ill health, fatigue, unhappiness, etc.: a wan look; a wan smile.
   3. lacking in forcefulness, competence, or effectiveness: their wan attempts to organize the alumni.
   4. Archaic .
   a. dark or gloomy.
   b. pale in color or hue.
   verb
   5. to become or make wan.
2. noun
   1. a building or other shelter, often of a stately or sumptuous character, enclosing the remains or relics of a saint or other holy person and forming an object of religious veneration and pilgrimage.
   2. any place or object hallowed by its history or associations: a historic shrine.
   3. any structure or place consecrated or devoted to some saint, holy person, or deity, as an altar, chapel, church, or temple.
   4. a receptacle for sacred relics; a reliquary.
3. adjective
   1. being in a state of agitation or tumult; disturbed: turbulent feelings or emotions.
   2. characterized by, or showing disturbance, disorder, etc.: the turbulent years.
   3. given to acts of violence and aggression: the turbulent young soldiers.
4. noun
   1. skill employed in a shrewd or sly manner, as in deceiving; craftiness; guile.
   2. adeptness in performance; dexterity: The weaver's hand lost its cunning.
   adjective
   3. showing or made with ingenuity.
   4. artfully subtle or shrewd; crafty; sly.
   5. Informal . charmingly cute or appealing: a cunning little baby.
   6. Archaic . skillful; expert.
   verb
   7. Obsolete . present participle of can.
5. verb (used with object)
   1. to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
   2. to throw into great disorder; derange.
   3. Astronomy . to cause perturbation in the orbit of (a celestial body).

5 Matching Questions

1. rampage
2. burgher
3. distort
4. solace
5. artless

1. a noun
   1. violent or excited behavior that is reckless, uncontrolled, or destructive.
   2. a state of violent anger or agitation: The smallest mistake sends him into a rampage. The river has gone on a rampage and flooded the countryside.
   verb (used without object)
   3. to rush, move, or act furiously or violently: a bull elephant rampaging through the jungle.
2. b noun
   an inhabitant of a town, especially a member of the middle class; citizen.
3. c noun
   1. comfort in sorrow, misfortune, or trouble; alleviation of distress or discomfort.
   2. something that gives comfort, consolation, or relief: The minister's visit was the dying man's only solace.
   verb
   3. to comfort, console, or cheer (a person, oneself, the heart, etc.).
   4.to alleviate or relieve (sorrow, distress, etc.).
4. d verb
   1. to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed: Arthritis had distorted his fingers.
   2. to give a false, perverted, or disproportionate meaning to; misrepresent: to distort the facts.
   3. Electronics . to reproduce or amplify (a signal) inaccurately by changing the frequencies or unequally changing the delay or amplitude of the components of the output wave.
5. e adjective
   1. free from deceit, cunning, or craftiness; ingenuous: an artless child.
   2. not artificial; natural; simple; uncontrived: artless beauty; artless charm.
   3. lacking art, knowledge, or skill.
   4. poorly made; inartistic; clumsy; crude: an artless translation.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. verb
   1. to make foul, dirty, or unclean; pollute; taint; debase.
   2. to violate the chastity of.
   3. to make impure for ceremonial use; desecrate.
   4. to sully, as a person's reputation.
   1. defile
   2. roil
   3. drivel
   4. garble
2. verb
   1. to confuse unintentionally or ignorantly; jumble: to garble instructions.
   2. to make unfair or misleading selections from or arrangement of (fact, statements, writings, etc.); distort: to garble a quotation.
   3. Archaic . to take out the best of.
   1. defile
   2. garble
   3. shrine
   4. artless
3. noun
   1. a narrow opening produced by cleavage or separation of parts.
   2. cleavage ( def. 1 ) .
   3. Anatomy . a natural division or groove in an organ, as in the brain.
   verb
   4. to make fissures in; cleave; split.
   1. perturb
   2. distort
   3. salve
   4. fissure
4. verb
   1. to oppose successfully; prevent from accomplishing a purpose.
   2. to frustrate or baffle (a plan, purpose, etc.).
   3. Archaic .
   a. to cross.
   b. to extend across.
   noun
   4. a seat across a boat, especially one used by a rower.
   5. a transverse member spreading the gunwales of a canoe or the like.
   1. wan
   2. distort
   3. shrine
   4. thwart
5. noun
   1. a medicinal ointment for healing or relieving wounds and sores.
   2. anything that soothes, mollifies, or relieves.
   verb
   3. to soothe with or as if with salve; assuage: to salve one's conscience.
   1. salve
   2. snub
   3. solace
   4. drivel

5 True/False Questions

1. staid → adjective
   1. of an unnatural or sickly pallor; pallid; lacking color: His wan face suddenly flushed.
   2. showing or suggesting ill health, fatigue, unhappiness, etc.: a wan look; a wan smile.
   3. lacking in forcefulness, competence, or effectiveness: their wan attempts to organize the alumni.
   4. Archaic .
   a. dark or gloomy.
   b. pale in color or hue.
   verb
   5. to become or make wan.

   True        False

2. pernicious → verb (used with object)
   1. to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
   2. to throw into great disorder; derange.
   3. Astronomy . to cause perturbation in the orbit of (a celestial body).

   True        False

3. culminate → noun
   1. skill employed in a shrewd or sly manner, as in deceiving; craftiness; guile.
   2. adeptness in performance; dexterity: The weaver's hand lost its cunning.
   adjective
   3. showing or made with ingenuity.
   4. artfully subtle or shrewd; crafty; sly.
   5. Informal . charmingly cute or appealing: a cunning little baby.
   6. Archaic . skillful; expert.
   verb
   7. Obsolete . present participle of can.

   True        False

4. drivel → verb
   1. to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment.
   2. to disturb or disquiet; irritate; vex: to be roiled by a delay.
   3. to move or proceed turbulently.

   True        False

5. roil → verb
   1. to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment.
   2. to disturb or disquiet; irritate; vex: to be roiled by a delay.
   3. to move or proceed turbulently.

   True        False