Vocabulary Quiz 1

Not able to produce children/lacking ​ (a)  

• barren
• marred
• juncture

The advocates of the project emphasized the (a)   condition of the beach.

• desolate
• yowl
• proficient

A tyrant or ruler with absolute powers

• despot

• bane

• barbarity

• juncture

Proficient

• Continually causes problems or misery

• Bare, deserted, gloomy

• Having a high degree of skill

• A cruel act

Match the following

• Barren

• Adjective

• Whet

• Adjective

• Marred

• Verb

• Desolate

• Noun

• Barbarity

• Verb

The plane crashed at the ______of two mountains.

Although I ​ (a)   in pain at the loss of my sense of hearing, it ​ (b)   my other 4 senses.

• yowled
• whetted
• marred
• junctured

Barbarity

• To cry out mournfully or as an expression of pain

• A cruel act

• Tyrant or ruler with absolute power

• A particular point in events or time

To make a feeling or desire more intense

• bane

• juncture

• despot

• whet

Marred

• Continually causes problems or misery

• To make a feeling or desire more intense

• To spoil or detract from something

• To cry out mournfully or as an expression of pain