5 Written Questions

1. tending to inflame the senses; causing anger
2. lasting a very short time
3. extremely excited; agitated
4. lacking adult sophistication; immature
5. in a manner that is hard to understand or explain; mysterious

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. traveling from place to place
   1. itinerant (adj)
      
      1. The gypsy was itinerant.
      2. Thom's family was always itinerant since his father got the job.
   2. mercurial (adj)
      
      1. The weather is often mercurial
      2. The girl was mercurial and changed her likes and dislikes often.
   3. incendiary (adj)
      
      1. The ASPCA commercial was incendiary.
      2. The young boy's pouting was incendiary within his father.
   4. ephemeral (adj)
      
      1. Their relationship felt ephemeral.
      2. When you're having fun, time is often ephemeral.
2. reversion to an earlier type; throwback
   1. surfeit (n)
      
      1. Money is never surfeit.
      2. The lies were surfeit enough that even the liar got tangled.
   2. anomaly (n)
      
      1. Her views were just anomalies, something she had realized long ago.
      2. She herself was an anomaly with her bright pink hair.
   3. atavism (n)
      
      1. Many drinks resorted to an atavism by using cane sugar.
      2. I had an atavism whenever I sat on the floor with my Barbie dolls scattered about.
   4. callow (adj)
      
      1. The man was so callow that he was almost a boy.
      2. Her behavior, normally mature, was callow this evening.
3. to take up and support as a cause; adopt or embrace
   1. espouse (v)
      
      1. Since going through depression, she had espoused people who suffered.
      2. She espoused the way of life as her own.
   2. aesthete (n)
      
      1. He said he was an aesthete due to his appreciation of literature.
      2. Many of the transcendentalism period were aesthetes.
   3. derelict (n)
      
      1. Sarah Osborn was a derelict.
      2. My sister can be a bit of a derelict at times when she refuses to get off the couch.
   4. anomaly (n)
      
      1. Her views were just anomalies, something she had realized long ago.
      2. She herself was an anomaly with her bright pink hair.
4. full or loud in sound
   1. incendiary (adj)
      
      1. The ASPCA commercial was incendiary.
      2. The young boy's pouting was incendiary within his father.
   2. taciturn (adj)
      
      1. He became taciturn whenever he was upset.
      2. She was taciturn to the strangers around her.
   3. callow (adj)
      
      1. The man was so callow that he was almost a boy.
      2. Her behavior, normally mature, was callow this evening.
   4. sonorous (adj)
      
      1. The opera singer's voice was sonorous.
      2. The sound was so sonorous that it echoed through the stadium.
5. changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic
   1. taciturn (adj)
      
      1. He became taciturn whenever he was upset.
      2. She was taciturn to the strangers around her.
   2. itinerant (adj)
      
      1. The gypsy was itinerant.
      2. Thom's family was always itinerant since his father got the job.
   3. mercurial (adj)
      
      1. The weather is often mercurial
      2. The girl was mercurial and changed her likes and dislikes often.
   4. ephemeral (adj)
      
      1. Their relationship felt ephemeral.
      2. When you're having fun, time is often ephemeral.

5 True/False Questions

1. aesthete (n)
   
   1. He said he was an aesthete due to his appreciation of literature.
   2. Many of the transcendentalism period were aesthetes. → a person who professes to have refined sensitivity toward the beauties of art or nature

   True        False

2. derelict (n)
   
   1. Sarah Osborn was a derelict.
   2. My sister can be a bit of a derelict at times when she refuses to get off the couch. → an overabundant supply; excess

   True        False

3. anomaly (n)
   
   1. Her views were just anomalies, something she had realized long ago.
   2. She herself was an anomaly with her bright pink hair. → a person who professes to have refined sensitivity toward the beauties of art or nature

   True        False

4. taciturn (adj)
   
   1. He became taciturn whenever he was upset.
   2. She was taciturn to the strangers around her. → inclined to silence; reserved in speech or expression.

   True        False

5. surfeit (n)
   
   1. Money is never surfeit.
   2. The lies were surfeit enough that even the liar got tangled. → a destitute homeless social misfit; vagrant; bum

   True        False