Final Exam Words Dec 2009

5 Written Questions

1. warn strongly
2. excessively mournful
3. calm; sluggish; unemotional
4. lacking wit or imagination
5. a fictitious name used when the person performs a particular social role

5 Matching Questions

1. PURLOIN
2. HIC IACET ARTHURUS, REX QUONDAM REXQUE FUTURIS
3. GUILE
4. BENIGN
5. NEMESIS

1. a pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence
2. b the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
3. c someone or something a person cannot conquer or achieve; a hated enemy
4. d "Here lies King Arthur, the Once and Future King"
5. e make off with belongings of others

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. (n.) Delicate skill; tact and cleverness; (v.) to accomplish something by cleverness, good judgment, or skillful evasion
   1. GUILE
   2. FINESSE
   3. NEMESIS
   4. EMINENT
2. (adj.) economical, avoiding waste and luxury; scanty, poor, meager
   1. PROSAIC
   2. BANAL
   3. GUILE
   4. FRUGAL
3. warlike in manner or temperament; quarrelsome
   1. BELLICOSE
   2. NEMESIS
   3. EMINENT
   4. BENIGN
4. lacking definition or definite content
   1. NEFARIOUS
   2. NEMESIS
   3. NEBULOUS
   4. LUGUBRIOUS
5. standing above others in quality or position
   1. EMINENT
   2. FINESSE
   3. GUILE
   4. BENIGN

5 True/False Questions

1. OBSTINATE → stubborn; hardheaded; uncompromising

   True        False

2. LAMPOON → ridicule with satire

   True        False

3. BANAL → pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence

   True        False

4. NEFARIOUS → lacking definition or definite content

   True        False

5. GLIB → the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

   True        False