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5 Written Questions

1. conspicuously bad or offensive
2. to make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate
3. secretive
4. certain to happen, unavoidable
5. easily shaped or formed; easily influenced

5 Matching Questions

1. diligent
2. sanction
3. derived
4. paramount
5. condescending

1. a marked by painstaking effort; hard-working
2. b treating people as weak or inferior
3. c to give official authorization or approval
4. d of chief concern or importance
5. e copied or adapted from a source

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. difficult to comprehend
   1. despotic
   2. rhetoric
   3. cryptic
   4. arbiter
2. shortened; cut off
   1. truncated
   2. emigrate
   3. frenetic
   4. lucid
3. the quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure
   1. vitality
   2. quandary
   3. transitory
   4. equanimity
4. exercising good judgment or common sense
   1. pundit
   2. profound
   3. insolent
   4. prudent
5. to ease a pain or a burden
   1. alleviate
   2. astute
   3. alliance
   4. servile

5 True/False Question

1. narrative → (adj.) characterized by the telling of a story (n.) a story
   

   True        False

2. dilettante → marked by painstaking effort; hard-working
   

   True        False

3. eloquence → the ability to speak vividly or persuasively
   

   True        False

4. conception → the ability to form or understand an idea
   

   True        False

5. disdain → stubbornly adhering to insufficiently proved beliefs
   

   True        False