5 Written Questions

1. departing from norms or conventions
2. precise and brief
3. extremely talkative
4. given to intense or excessive devotion to something
5. relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter

5 Matching Questions

1. aver
2. specious
3. pith
4. impunity
5. diatribe

1. a a harsh denunciation
2. b to state as a fact; to declare or assert
3. c seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive; plausible but false
4. d the essential or central part
5. e immunity from punishment or penalty

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. calm and peaceful
   1. hegemony
   2. halcyon
   3. acumen
   4. bolster
2. characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people
   1. mendacity
   2. archaic
   3. endemic
   4. polemical
3. pompous speech or expression
   1. grandiloquence
   2. platitude
   3. transient
   4. rancorous
4. one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions
   1. tenuous
   2. inchoate
   3. iconoclast
   4. bolster
5. questions; inquiries; doubts in the mind; reservations
   1. specious
   2. spurious
   3. queries
   4. luminous

5 True/False Questions

1. plummet → to appease; to calm by making concessions

   True        False

2. imperturbable → not capable of being appeased or significantly changed

   True        False

3. placate → to illegally use or reproduce

   True        False

4. prodigal → recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish

   True        False

5. hegemony → the consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others

   True        False