Seven Ages of K'ang-hsi Vocab

using such further tools as their imagination might ___

• contrive
• hasten
• whine
• gloss over

Careful study of this family ___ might well show that there was plenty of Chinese blood in the prince's veins.

• lineage
• garrison
• reins
• edict

the ___ schoolboy, with his satchel, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school

• whining
• pitiable
• harping
• auspicious

K'ang-hsi learned fluent Manchu and ___ Chinese

• colloquial
• pitiable
• auspicious
• posthumous

These regents produced the "will" in which the deceased emporer ___ himself for past errors

• chastised
• hastened
• glossed over
• mellowed

It is hard to believe K'ang-hsi did not resent his father's ___ humiliation

• posthumous
• garrison
• harping
• glossing

The fascinating and ___ portents accompanying his birth

• auspicious
• posthumous
• pitiable
• colloquial

He decided to end the power of Wu San-kuei and the other ___ in southern China

• feudatories
• reins
• pinnacles
• amnesties

K'ang-hsi stayed in the banner ___ areas of the cities he visited.

• garrison
• pitiable
• edict
• posthumous

Here is both the ___ drawn from a full life and the hardness born of experience.

• mellowness
• harping
• laxity
• edict