Vocabulary Quiz

To command firmly or forcefully is to

• collaborate

• wrangle

• hover

• decree

An invention that brings huge profits might be called a(n)

• vigil

• excerpt

• bonanza

• wrangle

People who gather together at night for a period of watchful attention are keeping

• rubble

• vigil

• citadel

• laggard

Which of the following is another word for slavish?

• discordant

• churlish

• servile

• laggard

Which of the following could not be used to replace adage (sentence 1)?

• theory

• maxim

• proverb

• aphorism

In sentence 5, discordant means

• serious

• harmonious

• conflicting

• humorous

Which of the following could be used to replace churlish (sentence 5)?

• exhausted

• successful

• polite

• surly