5 Written Questions

1. short account of something interesting; story
2. just begun; in an early stage of development
3. moral corruption
4. concerned with the 'guts'; physical rather than mental
5. unbiased

5 Matching Questions

1. Ousted
2. Banal
3. Syncopated
4. Resilient
5. Reconcile

1. a able to spring back; strong
2. b pushed out of a position
3. c dull; unoriginal
4. d with strongly accented rhythm
5. e bring disputing sides together; overcome bad feeling

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. people who revise; anti-revolutionaries
   1. Cacophonous
   2. Revisionists
   3. Allusion
   4. Benign
2. remedy for all ills
   1. Abashed
   2. Pastoral
   3. Dowager
   4. Panacea
3. revival
   1. Currency
   2. Resurgence
   3. Succinct
   4. Indigence
4. 1. area between two river basins, 2. turning point
   1. Fathom
   2. Watershed
   3. Ousted
   4. Hackneyed
5. belief
   1. Resurgence
   2. Mundane
   3. Cryptic
   4. Credence

5 True/False Questions

1. Anomalies → odd; not fitting the pattern

   True        False

2. Sanctimonious → very noisy; unpleasant sounding

   True        False

3. Vector → often-used saying

   True        False

4. Personification → 1. attributing human qualities to something non-human, 2. acting as an example of

   True        False

5. Assuage → lack of energy

   True        False