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5 Written Questions

1. bantering; joking
2. boisterous mirth(merriment; laughter); ADJ. hilarious: full of laughter
3. right and power to apply the law; authority
4. silently showing ill humor or resentment; dark; gloomy
5. fantastic; violently contrasting; noticeably odd; strikingly unconventional [French, from Spanish bizarro, brave, probably from Basque bizar, beard.]

5 Matching Questions

1. disclaim
2. scrappy
3. supererogatory
4. indoctrinate
5. unprepossessing

1. a superfluous; more than needed or demanded
2. b unattractive Not overtly impressive; unremarkable; nondescript: an ~ little hotel.
3. c cause to accept a doctrine without questioning it; Ex. ~ed with mindless anti-communism
4. d disown; renounce claim to; deny; CF. disclaimer
5. e quarrelsome; contentious; Full of fighting spirit.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. occupy fully; absorb [from Medieval Latin ingrossāre : Latin in-, in; see en–1 + grossa, a copy in a large hand (from Late Latin grossus, thick).]
   1. viscous
   2. engross
   3. betroth
   4. brood
2. slingshot; hurling machine; V: fire from ~
   1. catapult
   2. putative
   3. crabbed
   4. matinee
3. paste of flour and water (eaten when baked)
   1. prate
   2. gusty
   3. airy
   4. pastry
4. bankrupt; lacking money to pay; N. -cy
   1. insolvent
   2. aspirant
   3. molt
   4. resolve
5. sharpness (of mind or senses of sight or hearing) [ultimately from Latin acūtus, sharp. See acute.]
   1. gusty
   2. orgy
   3. pastry
   4. acuity

5 True/False Question

1. vagrant → wandering from place to place; 1. One who wanders from place to place without a permanent home or a means of livelihood.; roving; stray; moving in a random fashion; Ex. ~ thoughts; N.
   

   True        False

2. spurious → false; counterfeit; forged; illogical; Ex. ~ arguments
   

   True        False

3. avuncular → sharpness (of mind or senses of sight or hearing) [ultimately from Latin acūtus, sharp. See acute.]
   

   True        False

4. eclipse → darken; extinguish; outshine; surpass; cause an eclipse
   

   True        False

5. perturb → paste of flour and water (eaten when baked)
   

   True        False