12_Vocabulary Lessons 1-4

Match the following words and definitions

• arable

• to regard with respect, awe, or adoration

• interminable

• rotten and foul smelling

• revere

• to dry out; to remove moisture

• desiccate

• suitable for the cultivation of land

• putrid

• tiresome and long; seemingly endless

Match the following

• risible

• to overwhelm; to fill beyond capacity

• replete

• to overwhelm; to fill beyond capacity

• ubiquitous

• full; abundant

• inundate

• occurring or seeming to occur everywhere; omnipresent

• inundate

• relating to laughter; laughable

Match the following

• vernacular

• rapport and goodwill

• camaraderie

• pertaining to twilight

• intrinsic

• everyday language

• servile

• of or relating to a thing's basic nature; inherent

• crepuscular

• submissive; slavish

Match the following

• wrenching

• causing mental or physical painrenching

• truncate

• fragile; easy to break

• internecine

• mutually destructive

• frangible

• to alienate

• estrange

• to shorten

Match the following

• arrogate

• to claim for oneself without any right or authority

• patronizing

• a transformation or dramatic change

• metamorphosis

• of questionable authenticity, but widely believed

• apocryphal

• a fight; an uproar

• donnybrook

• in a condescending manner; with an attitude of superiority

Match the following

• brigand

• someone who participates in a conversation

• scapegoat

• one who bears the blame for others

• vacillate

• to waver; to sway indecisively

• vestige

• a trace or evidence of something that once existed

• interlocutor

• a robber or bandit

Match the following

• expurgate

• to remove vulgar or objectionable material

• nonchalant

• worldly; sophisticated

• pellucid

• unconcerned; indifferent

• perspicacious

• transparent; clear

• cosmopolitan

• someone who participates in a conversation

Match the following

• stygian

• dark and forbidding

• axiom

• no longer current or applicable; antiquated

• archaic

• an artist's or a designer's workshop

• atelier

• a deliberately deceptive or misleading argument

• sophistry

• a universal truth; an established rule