5 Written Questions

1. brilliant; giving off heat or light
2. intended to teach; morally instructive
3. highly unstable; explosive
4. a wiseman; to be wise through experience and reflection
5. to ridicule

5 Matching Questions

1. expedite
2. juxtapose
3. benevolent
4. exasperate
5. discordant

1. a to speed up the progress of
2. b to place side by side; quite different
3. c to annoy thoroughly
4. d lacking harmony or agreement
5. e generous; kind

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. to examine very carefully
   1. deride
   2. volatile
   3. scrutinize
   4. sage
2. lacking ideas or intelligence
   1. fecund
   2. decorous
   3. vacuous
   4. amorous
3. fertile; productive
   1. vacuous
   2. fecund
   3. deride
   4. distend
4. to confirm; to back up with evidence
   1. exasperate
   2. amorous
   3. corroborate
   4. scrutinize
5. to swell; to expand
   1. histrionic
   2. distend
   3. assail
   4. fecund

5 True/False Questions

1. assail → to attack with words or force

   True        False

2. idyllic → naturally peaceful

   True        False

3. decorous → feeling loving, especially in a sexual sense

   True        False

4. histrionic → overly dramatic

   True        False

5. amorous → proper; in good taste

   True        False