Quiz 1

Match the following words with their definitions

• to slow down a process or the growth of something

• Inhibit

• to improve the quality, amount, or strength of something

• Enhance

• to be the parts or members of something; to make up something

• Comprise

Match the following words with their definitions

• to examine something very carefully in order to discover information

• Curtail

• to stop something before it is finished, or to reduce or limit something

• Scrutinize

• continue to exist

• Persist

Match the following

• Impetus

• something that encourages a particular activity or makes that activity more energetic or effective

• Deference

• respect and politeness

• Inhibition

• a feeling of embarrassment or worry that prevents you from saying or doing what you want

Match the following

• a difference between two things that should be the same

• Discrepancy

• the fact of having no effect or of achieving nothing

• Proceedings

• a series of events that happen in a planned and controlled way

• Futility

Match the following

• temporary and intended to be used or accepted until something permanent exists

• Interim

• easily influenced or harmed by something

• Vulnerable

• able to be easily physically or mentally hurt, influenced, or attacked

• Susceptible

Match the following

• Pertinent

• determined in character, action, or ideas

• Inconsistent

• containing elements that are opposed and do not match, so that it is difficult to imagine how both can be true

• Resolute

• relating directly to the subject being considered

Match the following

• Rigidly

• strongly or completely

• Overwhelmingly

• said or done in a hurry, sometimes without the necessary care or thought

• Hastily

• in a stiff or fixed way, without bending or moving

Match the following

• Reluctantly

• in a way that involves doing or deciding something without first asking or agreeing with another person, group, or country

• Promptly

• quickly, without delay, or at the arranged time

• Unilaterally

• in a way that shows that you are not willing to do something and are therefore slow to do it