12_Vocabulary Lessons 1-4

Match the following words and definitions

• desiccate

• suitable for the cultivation of land

• putrid

• rotten and foul smelling

• revere

• tiresome and long; seemingly endless

• interminable

• to dry out; to remove moisture

• arable

• to regard with respect, awe, or adoration

Match the following

• replete

• relating to laughter; laughable

• inundate

• to overwhelm; to fill beyond capacity

• risible

• full; abundant

• ubiquitous

• occurring or seeming to occur everywhere; omnipresent

• inundate

• to overwhelm; to fill beyond capacity

Match the following

• intrinsic

• submissive; slavish

• camaraderie

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

• vernacular

• pertaining to twilight

• crepuscular

• everyday language

• servile

• rapport and goodwill

Match the following

• wrenching

• to shorten

• internecine

• mutually destructive

• truncate

• to alienate

• frangible

• causing mental or physical painrenching

• estrange

• fragile; easy to break

Match the following

• arrogate

• a transformation or dramatic change

• donnybrook

• in a condescending manner; with an attitude of superiority

• apocryphal

• of questionable authenticity, but widely believed

• patronizing

• to claim for oneself without any right or authority

• metamorphosis

• a fight; an uproar

Match the following

• interlocutor

• a trace or evidence of something that once existed

• vacillate

• a robber or bandit

• vestige

• someone who participates in a conversation

• scapegoat

• to waver; to sway indecisively

• brigand

• one who bears the blame for others

Match the following

• nonchalant

• to remove vulgar or objectionable material

• perspicacious

• someone who participates in a conversation

• expurgate

• transparent; clear

• pellucid

• unconcerned; indifferent

• cosmopolitan

• worldly; sophisticated

Match the following

• atelier

• dark and forbidding

• sophistry

• no longer current or applicable; antiquated

• archaic

• a deliberately deceptive or misleading argument

• axiom

• a universal truth; an established rule

• stygian

• an artist's or a designer's workshop