Wordly Wise 8-Lesson 6 Definition Review

Match the following:

• elapse

• to absorb into the population; to take a part in and absorb into the whole

• arraign

• a ring or band put around the arm or leg to prevent free movement

• assimilate

• to pass or slip by (used with time)

• calamity

• an event that causes great suffering and harm; a disaster

• shackle

• to bring before the court to face charges

Strikingly out of the ordinary; peculiar is...​ (a)  

• bizarre
• apprehend
• swelter
• imminent
• lionize

To treat as a celebrity...​​ ​ ​ (a)  

• lionize
• apprehend
• swelter
• bizarre
• imminent

to suffer from or to be overcome by great heat...​​ ​ ​ (a)  

• swelter
• apprehend
• lionize
• bizarre
• imminent

to seize; to arrest & to grasp the meaning of; to understand...​​ ​​ (a)  

• apprehend
• lionize
• bizarre
• imminent
• swelter

about to happen; likely to occur in the very near future...​​ ​​ ​ (a)  

• imminent
• lionize
• bizarre
• swelter
• apprehend

The total absence of government---​ (a)   ​

• anarchy
• conspire
• dissension
• interrogate
• meticulous

to plan together secretly to do something wrong or illegal; to join or act together​ (a)  

• conspire
• dissension
• interrogate
• meticulous
• anarchy

a difference of opinion; disagreement ​ (a)  

• dissension
• interrogate
• meticulous
• anarchy
• conspire

to ask questions of; especially in a thorough or formal manner---​ (a)  

• interrogate
• meticulous
• anarchy
• conspire
• dissension