EN9 Vocabulary Lesson 6 Practice (3rd)

Match the following.

• to declare positively; to state as the truth

• apropos

• fitting the occasion; suitable or apt

• aver

• to admit to be true often reluctantly; to grant or to let have

• ascendancy

• controlling influence; domination

• assess

• to analyze and determine the nature, value, or importance of

• concede

Match the following

• lacking

• impart

• 1. To make known; disclose; 2. To bestow

• dogma

• 1. To put an idea into form that can be seen; 2. To make part of a system; incorporate

• deficient

• An unproven principle or belief held to be true

• oratory

• The art of public speaking

• embody

Match the following

• A visit or temporary stay

• sojourn

• Making one’s feelings known in a loud way

• propagate

• Someone who proposes or supports an idea; an advocate

• proponent

• 1. To reproduce; 2. To cause to reproduce; 3. To foster the spread of

• rudimentary

• 1. Not yet fully developed; basic; 2. Elementary

• vociferous

appropriate; relevant

• apropos
• deficient

superiority; authority

• ascendancy
• dogma

evaluate; judge

• assess
• embody

claim; affirm

• aver
• impart

accept; yield

• concede
• oratory

flawed; insufficient

• deficient
• propagate

belief; principle

• dogma
• proponent