Vocabulary Practice Quiz

Definition: not safe or secure; dangerous

• precarious

• preposterous

• priority

• intractable

Definition: to walk in a casual and unhurried way

• falter

• saunter

• dawdle

• canter

Definition: to happen or occur again

• finagle

• subside

• recur

• restrict

Definition: to waste time on unimportant things or by being slow

• saunter

• squander

• writhe

• dawdle

Definition: inclined to do good; kind; generous

• benevolent

• democratic

• belligerent

• immoral

Definition: easily irritated or annoyed

• agnostic

• inane

• priority

• testy

Definition: to change direction; to turn

• veer

• divert

• malm

• quell

Definition: 1. to bring to a stop; to put an end to 2. to make calm; to quiet

• gulle

• improvise

• quell

• deft

Definition: 1. strictness; harshness 2. seriousness 3. sharpness, intensity, or violence

• unswerving

• disarray

• severity

• subside

Definition: so short or brief as to seem rude

• retort

• blunt

• curt

• deft