4 Written Questions

1. Practicing restraint as a means of self discipline, usually religious. Sentence: Pam lives a ascetic life; she never uses gods name in vain.
2. Greed, strong desire, exercises stupidity. Sentence: His cupidity made him steal four hats from the store.
3. One who attacks common beliefs or institutions. Sentence: She is always an iconoclast when there are protests about religion.
4. urgent, critical. Sentence: She had an exigent need for medication when she broke her arm jumping off a cliff.

3 Multiple Choice Questions

1. (N)An arrangement of food set out on a table. (V)To strike with Force. Sentence: When we went to a hotel instead of having a waiter that came to our table, we walked up and got our food form the buffet.
   1. Buffet
   2. ascetic
   3. Exigent
   4. Cupidity
2. To violate the sacredness of a thing or place. Sentence: They feared she would desecrate the church because she hated christians so much.
   1. Exigent
   2. Desecrate
   3. Deleterious
   4. Discursive
3. An attempt to spoil someone else's reputation by spreading lies. Sentence: Her calumny backfired when people started to talk about her in a horrible way.
   1. Fatuous
   2. Cupidity
   3. Exigent
   4. calumny

3 True/False Questions

1. Deleterious → To violate the sacredness of a thing or place. Sentence: They feared she would desecrate the church because she hated christians so much.

   True        False

2. Discursive → Rambling, lacking order, off topic. Sentence: Her discursive lectures would start with one topic and by the end she would be talking about a completely different controversy.

   True        False

3. Fatuous → An attempt to spoil someone else's reputation by spreading lies. Sentence: Her calumny backfired when people started to talk about her in a horrible way.

   True        False