Vocabulary Week 12 Quiz

Disturbing and horrifying because of involvement with or depiction of death and injury.

• Miscreant

• Macabre

• Matriarchy

• Noisome

having an extremely offensive smell

• Miscreant

• Macabre

• Matriarchy

• Noisome

a person who behaves badly or in a way that breaks the law

• Miscreant

• Macabre

• Matriarchy

• Noisome

a system of society or government ruled by a woman or women.

• Matriarchy

• Palisades

• Penury

• Odyssey

a long and eventful or adventurous journey or experience

• Matriarchy

• Palisades

• Penury

• Odyssey

a fence of wooden stakes or iron railings fixed in the ground, forming an enclosure or defense

• Matriarchy

• Palisades

• Penury

• Odyssey

a cramping and oppressive lack of resources

• Officious

• Maestro

• Penurious

• Penury

a distinguished musician, especially a conductor of classical music

• Officious

• Maestro

• Penurious

• Penury

extremely poor; poverty-stricken

• Maudlin

• Penurious

• Misnomer

• Officious

assertive of authority in an annoyingly domineering way, especially with regard to petty or trivial matters

• Officious

• Penurious

• Misnomer

• Maudlin