Units 1-9 Vocabulary Post Test

Intense anger, rage

• flaw

• ordeal

• wrath

• homicide

to begin to grow

• germinate

• flourish

• inflict

• maul

easily taught, led, or managed; obedient

• reluctant

• indignant

• drone

• docile

to make dry and thirsty

• maul

• parch

• luster

• mortified

near, next to, adjoining

• quaint

• wayward

• adjacent

• wayward

of less than normal strength or size

• prior

• proficient

• prudent

• puny

nameless, without the name of the person involved (writer, composer, etc.),

• anonymous

• iota

• paradox

• wayward

disobedient, willful; unpredictable

• malignant

• reluctant

• wayward

• ordeal

a riddle; a self-contradictory statement that on closer examination proves true

• prudent

• proficient

• prescribe

• paradox

a person who starts up and takes on the risk of a business; a business person

• entrepreneur

• dynasty

• brood

• truce