5 Written Questions

1. blithely indifferent or unconcerned; carefree; happy-go-lucky
2. very sheer and light; almost completely transparent
3. to enclose or confine within walls; to imprison; to seclude or isolate
4. a bitter verbal attack
5. a quick raid, especially for plunder; a venture into some field of endevour; to make such a raid

5 Matching Questions

1. prescience
2. traumatic
3. saturnalian
4. iconoclastic
5. waggish

1. a so shocking to the emotions as to cause lasting and substantial psychological damage
2. b characterized by riotous or unrestrained revelry or licentiousness
3. c knowledge of events or actions before they happen; foresight
4. d attacking or seeking to overthrow popular or traditional beliefs, ideas, or institutions
5. e fond of making jokes; characteristic of a joker; playfully humorous or droll

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. mutually destructive; characterized by great slaughter and bloodshed
   1. insouciant
   2. ensconce
   3. internecine
   4. saturnalian
2. intended to promote a particular point of view, doctrine, or cause; biased or partisan
   1. portentous
   2. salubrious
   3. contumelious
   4. tendentious
3. a confident and stylish manner, dash; a strikingly elaborate or colorful display
   1. genre
   2. matrix
   3. panache
   4. vitiate
4. a change, variation, or alteration; successive or changing phases or conditions
   1. vicissitude
   2. vitiate
   3. immure
   4. dictum
5. insolent or rude in speech or behavior; insultingly abusive, humiliating
   1. salubrious
   2. tendentious
   3. contumelious
   4. portentous

5 True/False Questions

1. commensurate → to change or vary the intensity of pitch; to temper or soften; to regulate, adjust

   True        False

2. portentous → foreshadowing an event to come; causing conder or awe; self-consiously weighty, pompous

   True        False

3. maudlin → excessively or effusively sentimental

   True        False

4. prurient → to spread news, reports, or unsubstantiated rumors

   True        False

5. browbeat → to intimidate by a stern or overbearing manner; to bully

   True        False