Wordly Wise 10 L 9

Aesop's fables are ___ tales; their morals are intended to teach lessons.

• cautionary
• entertaining
• teaching
• informing

The off-key singer made an ________exit from the stage, foregoing the encore he had planned.

• entertaining
• ignominious
• ordinary
• shameful

"Vegetable" is sometimes considered to be a _____ for the tomato, since tomatoes are actually classified as fruits.

• name
• magnate
• vestige
• misnomer

Andrew Carnegie was the steel ____ who endowed 2,800 libraries across the country.

• misnomer
• quixotic
• magnate
• ignominious

To confine, inhibit or hold back by force or necessity.

• praise
• control
• incur
• constrain

To get rid of; to kill or destroy

• incur
• destroy
• liquidate
• relocate

To settle the affairs of a business; to convert into cash.

• liquidate
• cautionary
• destroy
• disperse

Burdensome; Oppressive

• tenacious
• vestige
• quixotic
• onerous

A fleet of boats or small ships

• misnomer
• zephyr
• flotilla
• vestige

To bring upon oneself something undesirable, such as a debt.

• incur
• liquidate
• praise
• favors