Week 32 Quiz

of one's own choosing

• mollify

• encumber

• volition

• amiable

(N) 1. the ability to choose willfully

2. a choice; the act of making a choice

• Pilfer

• Debilitate

• Volition

• Aberration

to criticize or punish for the purpose of correction

• motley
• banter 
• castigate
• abet 

Which vocabulary word means to confuse?

• obfuscate
• parochial
• adventitious
• pedestrian

__________ means tranquil, peaceful, serene, or unruffled.

• Ignominy

• Placid

• Sanguine

• Asinine

_________ means belligerent, hostile, or eager to fight.

• Bellicose

• Furtive

• Debacle

• Resplendent

_________ means to obscure or make less clear.

• Ignominy

• Resplendent

• Debacle

• Obfuscate

If you were trying to describe a cheerful person, which word would you NOT use?

• Sanguine

• Optimistic

• Bellicose

• Upbeat

warlike in manner or temperament; quarrelsome

• bellicose

• droll

• alacrity

• appall

to clarify, explain

• elucidate

• antithesis

• disparage

• edict