5 Written Questions

1. to go backwards into an earlier or worse condition
2. highly exaggerated concept of one's importance
3. to infer from something known
4. universe considered as a whole
5. to make less violent

5 Matching Questions

1. chronic
2. reiterate
3. brevity
4. pseudonym
5. microcosm

1. a a shortness of time
2. b fictitious name used to conceal real identity
3. c do say or do repeatedly
4. d continuing for a long time
5. e a little world

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. long life
   1. brevity
   2. reiterate
   3. longevity
   4. veracity
2. generous in forgiving an insult or injury
   1. magnanimous
   2. maxim
   3. paradox
   4. macrocosm
3. very advanced in ideas, design, etc
   1. retrogress
   2. ultramodern
   3. extrapolate
   4. paradox
4. to make or cause to seem smaller
   1. diminish
   2. chronic
   3. maxim
   4. Decrease
5. a violent upheaval
   1. cataclysmal
   2. macrocosm
   3. metaphysics
   4. paradox

5 True/False Questions

1. metaphysics → branch of philosophy that examines nature of reality

   True        False

2. paradox → universe considered as a whole

   True        False

3. extemporaneous → done, spoken, or performed without preperation

   True        False

4. veracity → habitual observance of truth

   True        False

5. maxim → a general truth or principle

   True        False