English VI Vocab Quiz 3

keen; mentally sharp

• nonchalant

• perspicacious

• contemptuous

• peremptory

• replete

to take over; to seize

• truncate

• vacillate

• desiccate

• usurp

• expurgate

to remove vulgar or objectionable material

• desiccate

• vacillate

• truncate

• expurgate

• usurp

an evil or wicked act

• moratorium

• axiom

• iniquity

• sophistry

• equanimity

disregarding individual differences or circumstances

• perspicacious

• abstemious

• risible

• sybaritic

• procrustean

technical names or naming system in an art or science

• sophistry

• moratorium

• iniquity

• nomenclature

• incantation

an artist or designer's workshop

• axiom

• moratorium

• talisman

• sophistry

• atelier

not allowing refusal or delay; imperative

• pellucid

• cosmopolitan

• wrenching

• axiom

• peremptory

a magical charm or superstitious object for protection or luck

• brigand

• talisman

• atelier

• vestige

• axiom

melodious; pleasing to the ear

• abstemious

• archaic

• dulcet

• patronizing

• peremptory