5 Written Questions

1. a literary work or speech expressing a bitter lament or a righteous prophecy of doom
2. troublesome or oppressive; burdensome
3. a written message; a letter
4. attracting attention in a vulgar manner; plausible but false or insincere; specious; of or relating to prostitutes or prostitution
5. having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; impassive

5 Matching Questions

1. wastrel
2. lachrymose
3. tenebrous
4. supercilious
5. quotidian

1. a everyday; commonplace; recurring daily
2. b dark and gloomy
3. c one who wastes, esp. one who wastes money; an idler or a loafer
4. d weeping or inclined to weep; tearful
5. e feeling or showing haughty disdain

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. sinful; guilty; violating a rule or an accepted practice; erring
   1. koan
   2. peculate
   3. pecuniary
   4. peccant
2. a long word
   1. nonsectarian
   2. sesquipedalian
   3. quotidian
   4. supercilious
3. strictly attentive to minute details of form in action or conduct; precise; scrupulous
   1. lugubrious
   2. punctillious
   3. supercilious
   4. meretricious
4. a medicine whose effectiveness is unproved and whose ingredients are usually secret; a quack remedy
   1. nostrum
   2. vortex
   3. obtuse
   4. usurp
5. a puzzling, often paradoxical statement or story, used in Zen Buddhism as an aid to meditation and a means of gaining spiritual awakening
   1. koan
   2. yaw
   3. jejune
   4. yeoman

5 True/False Question

1. termagant → forceful; effective, and vigorous; caustic; cutting; distinct; clear-cut
   

   True        False

2. rubicund → excessively ornate or complex in style or language; grandiloquent; swollen of distended, as from a fluid; bloated
   

   True        False

3. temper → the west wind; a gentle breeze; any of various light fabrics, yans, or gramants; something that is airy, insubstantial, or passing
   

   True        False

4. pilloried → to describe (a word) by stating its part of speech, form, and syntactical relationships in a sentence
   

   True        False

5. moiety → a half; a part, portion, or share
   

   True        False