5 Written Questions

1. sweet; excessively or disgustingly sweet
2. to free from sin; to free from an obligation
3. unpredictable; likely to change at any moment
4. the perfect example of something; a paradigm
5. fleeting; vanishing; happening only for the briefest period

5 Matching Questions

1. grandiose
2. chicanery
3. precursor
4. copious
5. static

1. a trickery; deceitfulness; especially legal or political
2. b absurdly exaggerated
3. c stationary
4. d abundant; plentiful
5. e forerunner; something that goes before and anticipates/paves the way for whatever it is that follows

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. to pretend to be sick to avoid doing work
   1. malinger
   2. candor
   3. bovine
   4. belie
2. to surrender
   1. adulterate
   2. gesticulate
   3. emulate
   4. capitulate
3. insensitive; blockheaded
   1. abstruse
   2. verbose
   3. terse
   4. obtuse
4. to erase; rub away the features of
   1. efface
   2. facile
   3. deduce
   4. arcane
5. hard or impossible to satisfy; greedy; avaricious
   1. insular
   2. culpable
   3. insatiable
   4. facile

5 True/False Questions

1. dearth → using no unnecessary words; succinct

   True        False

2. incisive → cutting right to the heart of the matter

   True        False

3. catharsis → sweet; excessively or disgustingly sweet

   True        False

4. volition → malicious; unjustifiable; unprovoked; egregious

   True        False

5. machination → malicious; unjustifiable; unprovoked; egregious

   True        False