12_Vocabulary Lessons 1-4

Match the following words and definitions

• revere

• rotten and foul smelling

• desiccate

• to dry out; to remove moisture

• putrid

• to regard with respect, awe, or adoration

• interminable

• tiresome and long; seemingly endless

• arable

• suitable for the cultivation of land

Match the following

• ubiquitous

• full; abundant

• risible

• to overwhelm; to fill beyond capacity

• inundate

• relating to laughter; laughable

• inundate

• occurring or seeming to occur everywhere; omnipresent

• replete

• to overwhelm; to fill beyond capacity

Match the following

• intrinsic

• pertaining to twilight

• vernacular

• submissive; slavish

• camaraderie

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

• servile

• rapport and goodwill

• crepuscular

• everyday language

Match the following

• wrenching

• mutually destructive

• truncate

• to shorten

• internecine

• causing mental or physical painrenching

• estrange

• fragile; easy to break

• frangible

• to alienate

Match the following

• apocryphal

• of questionable authenticity, but widely believed

• patronizing

• to claim for oneself without any right or authority

• arrogate

• a fight; an uproar

• metamorphosis

• in a condescending manner; with an attitude of superiority

• donnybrook

• a transformation or dramatic change

Match the following

• vestige

• to waver; to sway indecisively

• vacillate

• one who bears the blame for others

• brigand

• a trace or evidence of something that once existed

• scapegoat

• a robber or bandit

• interlocutor

• someone who participates in a conversation

Match the following

• cosmopolitan

• transparent; clear

• expurgate

• someone who participates in a conversation

• nonchalant

• unconcerned; indifferent

• perspicacious

• worldly; sophisticated

• pellucid

• to remove vulgar or objectionable material

Match the following

• atelier

• dark and forbidding

• archaic

• an artist's or a designer's workshop

• axiom

• a universal truth; an established rule

• stygian

• no longer current or applicable; antiquated

• sophistry

• a deliberately deceptive or misleading argument