5 Written Questions

1. overly concerned with minute details, excessively concerned with book learning and formal rules
2. a formal agreement between two or more persons to do or not do something specified
3. reserved, restrained, reluctant
4. pertaining to public treasury, revenues, or financial matters in general
5. to abstain or keep away from, shun, avoid

5 Matching Questions

1. pragmatism
2. reneged
3. alchemy
4. heretical
5. nonchalance

1. a pertaining to the willful and persistent rejection of established beliefs or customs
2. b a form of chemistry concerned with finding methods to change a cheap metal into gold, magical power of transmuting a common substance of little value into something of great value, the way two individuals relate to each other
3. c state or quality of being cool, indifferent, or casual
4. d to go back on one's word
5. e character or conduct that emphasizes practicality

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident, bloody red
   1. anecdote
   2. arbiter
   3. malice
   4. sanguine
2. a complete change in form, character, circumstances, appearance, etc.
   1. prosthetic
   2. facetious
   3. metamorphosis
   4. paradox
3. desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness
   1. sanguine
   2. arbiter
   3. reticent
   4. malice
4. a person who has the sole or absolute power of judging or determining
   1. reneged
   2. eschew
   3. arbiter
   4. malice
5. having a sense of the beautiful, characterized by a love of beauty, pertaining to pure emotion
   1. eschew
   2. prosthetic
   3. esthetic
   4. pedantic

5 True/False Questions

1. facetious → a short account of a particular incident of interesting or amusing nature

   True        False

2. rakishly → carelessly, in a casual manner

   True        False

3. paradox → a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory but in reality expresses a possible truth

   True        False

4. altruistic → a person who has the sole or absolute power of judging or determining

   True        False

5. superfluous → not meant to be taken seriously or literally

   True        False