Wordly Wise Vocab 12 lesson 3

A mixture of different elements.

• Apothecary

• Charlatan

• Amalgam

• Denizen

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Beth ordered the nostrum to cure her cold even though it was not guaranteed.

• course

• instrument

• appliance

• treatment

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Quitting smoking has a _____ effect on the health even of smokers of long duration.

• ascetic

• beneficent

• antediluvian

• nostrum

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With three young children, daily life in the house was marked by _______ activity.

• perennial

• doyen

• savant

• antediluvian

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For one thousand dollars Rama will give you the secret of eternal youth.

• Putative

• Ascetic

• Doyenne

• Charlatan

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In several of his novels, Marcel Pagno vividly delineates the _________ of small rural towns of southern France.

• denizen

• savant

• charlatan

• coadjutator

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Ron, the class statistics_______, became very popular as the due date for the final projects approached.

• savant

• doyen

• apothecary

• prototype

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Campus insomniacs shared a certain camaraderie as __________ of the all-night coffee shop in the student union.

• apothecaries

• charlatans

• denizens

• ascetics

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I was fascinated by the local plants when I visited New Zealand.

• Flora

• Nostrums

• Aspersions

• Hiatus

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Which of the family members is most likely to be the doyenne?

• Grandmother

• Father

• Sister

• Nephew