Lessons 9-15 Vocabulary Quizizz Practice

A person involved in an act meant to trick or deceive someone; someone who pretends to be someone they are not; a dishonest or insincere person; nonsense

• humbug (n.)

• short shrift (n.)

• miserly (adv.)

• wit (n.)

Brief and harsh treatment given to a person or topic, with little sympathy or consideration

• short shrift (n.)

• humbug (n.)

• wit (n.)

• brevity (n.)

Quick, brief

• brevity (n.)

• corrupts (v.)

• miserly (adv.)

• wit (n.)

The ability to express oneself in clever ways that amuse people; the ability to think or reason.

• wit (n.)

• brevity (n.)

• rhyme or reason (idiom)

• quarrel (n.)

To cause to become harmed or damaged

• corrupts (v.)

• miserly (adj.)

• brevity (n.)

• controversy (n.)

Like a greedy, stingy person who lives in a poor way in order to save money

• miserly (adv.)

• brevity (n.)

• rhyme or reason (idiom)

• grievance (n.)

To leave something or someone abruptly with no intention of returning

• abandon (v.)

• corrupts (v.)

• controversy (n.)

• quarrel (n.)

Having or showing good sense, logic, or meaning.

• rhyme or reason (idiom)

• brevity (n.)

• dispute (n.)

• quarrel (n.)

A dispute in which many people take sides or have differing opinions.

• controversy (n.)

• grievance (n.)

• rhyme or reason (idiom)

• banquet (n.)

A fancy dinner usually for royalty or in celebration of something or someone

• banquet (n.)

• quarrel (n.)

• rhyme and reason (idiom)

• brevity (n.)