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← Unit 14 Vocab Test
5 Written Questions
5 Matching Questions
- sadistic
- jejune
- potpourri
- tortuous
- expatiate
- a lacking in nutritive value, lacking in interest or substance, immature, juvenile, vapid, insipid, puerile, childish
- b to expand on, write or talk at length or in detail, to move about freely
- c delighing in cruelty, excessively cruel, brutal, vicious, inhuman, friendish
- d winding, twisted, crooked, highly, involved, complex, devious, circuitous, serpentine, labyrinthine
- e a collection of diverse or miscellaneous items, a general mixture, petals mixed with spices for scent, hodgepodge, medley
5 Multiple Choice Questions
- to beg earnestly and humbly, plead, petition, implore, entreat
- coming fromt he outside, foreign, present but not essential, irrelevant, extrinsic, incidental
- an excess of overindulgence, as in eating or drinking causing disgust to feed or supply with anything to excess, guilt
- self-righteous, characterized by moralizing, given to use of maxisms of adages, saying much in few words, pithy, moralistic
- willing to follow advice or authority, tractable, submissive, responsive, liable to be held responsible, agreeable, complaint, docile
5 True/False Questions
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criterion → a rule, test, a standard for judgement or evaluation, yard-stick, touchstone, gauge, caon
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infirmity → a weakness or ailment (physically, mentally, moral etc.) affliction, malady, defect
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carnage → to scold sharply, chide, rebuke, reprove, reprimand
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inception → the beginnging, start, earliest stage of some process, institution, commencement, inauguration, out set
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obdurate → to scold sharply, chide, rebuke, reprove, reprimand
Regenerate Test