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Unit 14 Vocab Test

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of 20 available terms

5 Written Questions

5 Matching Questions

  1. sadistic
  2. jejune
  3. potpourri
  4. tortuous
  5. expatiate
  1. a lacking in nutritive value, lacking in interest or substance, immature, juvenile, vapid, insipid, puerile, childish
  2. b to expand on, write or talk at length or in detail, to move about freely
  3. c delighing in cruelty, excessively cruel, brutal, vicious, inhuman, friendish
  4. d winding, twisted, crooked, highly, involved, complex, devious, circuitous, serpentine, labyrinthine
  5. e a collection of diverse or miscellaneous items, a general mixture, petals mixed with spices for scent, hodgepodge, medley

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. to beg earnestly and humbly, plead, petition, implore, entreat
  2. coming fromt he outside, foreign, present but not essential, irrelevant, extrinsic, incidental
  3. an excess of overindulgence, as in eating or drinking causing disgust to feed or supply with anything to excess, guilt
  4. self-righteous, characterized by moralizing, given to use of maxisms of adages, saying much in few words, pithy, moralistic
  5. willing to follow advice or authority, tractable, submissive, responsive, liable to be held responsible, agreeable, complaint, docile

5 True/False Questions

  1. criteriona rule, test, a standard for judgement or evaluation, yard-stick, touchstone, gauge, caon

          

  2. infirmitya weakness or ailment (physically, mentally, moral etc.) affliction, malady, defect

          

  3. carnageto scold sharply, chide, rebuke, reprove, reprimand

          

  4. inceptionthe beginnging, start, earliest stage of some process, institution, commencement, inauguration, out set

          

  5. obdurateto scold sharply, chide, rebuke, reprove, reprimand