6 Written Questions

1. aggravate, intensify, irritate, exacerbate
2. revere, honor, venerate, consecrate
3. important, essential, crucial, vital
4. simple, modest, unaffected, humble
5. robust, portly, rosy, the picture of health
6. selfish, cruel, harmful, deleterious

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. invincible, protected, safe, secure
   1. austere
   2. vulnerable
   3. redoubtable
   4. desecrate
2. refined, elegant, tasteful, polished, brilliant
   1. debase
   2. reprove
   3. crass
   4. prate
3. elevate, uplift, improve, enhance
   1. crass
   2. debase
   3. prate
   4. reprove
4. relax, calm, put at ease
   1. desecrate
   2. disconcert
   3. beneficent
   4. austere
5. come to the point, not waste words
   1. crass
   2. reprove
   3. debase
   4. prate

5 True/False Questions

1. austere → come to the point, not waste words

   True        False

2. reprove → praise, commend, laud, pat on the back

   True        False

3. redoubtable → laughable, risible, contemptible

   True        False

4. stalwart (adj) → (adj.) weak, infirm, irresolute, vacillating

   True        False

5. punctilious → careless, negligent, lax, perfunctory

   True        False