Vocabulary QUIZ #1

John will ______________ his friends if he continues to talk behind their backs. 

• fatalistic
• licentious
• alienate

My grandpa is a ______________. He spends his time looking through his coin collections. 

• numismatist
• obtrude
• paucity

If you were not invited to the meeting, then do not ______________ by walking in and interrupting. 

• obtrude
• alienate
• epigram

H. G. Wells is known for the following _______________: “If we don’t end war, war will end us.”

• elated
• pensive
• epigram

The _______________ basketball player sat the bench because he never tried his hardest during practices. 

• licentious
• lackadaisical
• obtrude

Someone who suffers a __________________ of focus will not be successful in his or her career.

• paucity
• pensive
• epigram

It is ____________________ to think that you have no control over your success in life. 

• pensive
• elated
• fatalistic

Susan was _________________ when she found out that she had been offered her dream job. 

• alienated
• obtruded
• elated

The __________________ criminal was convicted of forging checks for the third time. 

• pensive
• elated
• licentious

When I finished my book, I was __________________ about how my life might be like the main character's life. 

• pensive
• lackadaisical
• paucity