Sophomore Q3.3 Vocabulary Test 23

Eager to see the band perform, the crowd resented the opening singer as an _______.

• intrinsic

• interloper

• bombastic

• epitome

A quality that is part of a person's or thing's nature is

• meticulously

• excavation

• intrinsic

• methodical

to make a violent attack in words, express strong disapproval

• callow

• epitome

• inveigh

• infringe

After being sick all week, a certain amount of ____ can be expected.

• permeate
• stringent
• lassitude
• aplomb

(n.) A hoped-for period of joy, serenity, prosperity, and justice. 2. a period of a thousand years.

• epitome
• ex officio
• ameliorate
• millenium

mysterious, magical, supernatural; secret, hidden from view; not detectable by ordinary means

• occult

• ex officio

• intrinsic

• exhort

Astronomers did not notice the small moon, which was often _____ed by the planet around which it orbited.

• permeate

• stringent

• aplomb

• occult

to spread through, penetrate, soak through

• permeate

• surmise

• drivel

• ex officio

Scholars often disagree over which event or events _____ an historic moment.

• permeate

• precipitate

• bombastic

• epitome

The police had no proof, nothing to go on but a suspicion, a mere _____.

• aplomb

• inveigh

• exhort

• surmise