Vocabulary Power Plus Lesson 5

To make less severe or painful

• assuage

• celestial

• heretic

• incorrigible

Fill in the blank with the correct word:

Jack was a religious man, and he took offense when others made ____________________ remarks.

• blasphemous

• heretic

• reticent

• wrath

The opposite of earthly or terrestrial

• celestial

• exuberant

• incorrigible

• wrath

A conversation between two people

• dialogue

• heretic

• assuage

• unorthodox

Fill in the blank with the correct word:

Her _____________________ expression relieved our fears of her being angry with us.

• exuberant

• incorrigible

• turbulent

• reticent

The antonym for a conformist is a

• heretic

• dialogue

• wrath

• quash

Incapable of correction or rehabilitation

• incorrigible

• reticent

• squalid

• peevish

Fill in the blank with the correct word:

The ___________________ man seems to complain about every little thing.

• peevish

• squalid

• reticent

• incorrigible

A signal or warn of; to forecast

• portend

• wrath

• exuberant

• assuage

The opposite of to legalize or authorize is

• quash

• turbulent

• unorthodox

• wrath