12_Vocabulary Lessons 1-4

Match the following words and definitions

• putrid

• suitable for the cultivation of land

• interminable

• to regard with respect, awe, or adoration

• arable

• tiresome and long; seemingly endless

• desiccate

• rotten and foul smelling

• revere

• to dry out; to remove moisture

Match the following

• replete

• occurring or seeming to occur everywhere; omnipresent

• ubiquitous

• relating to laughter; laughable

• inundate

• to overwhelm; to fill beyond capacity

• inundate

• to overwhelm; to fill beyond capacity

• risible

• full; abundant

Match the following

• camaraderie

• pertaining to twilight

• crepuscular

• submissive; slavish

• servile

• rapport and goodwill

• vernacular

• of or relating to a thing's basic nature; inherent

• intrinsic

• everyday language

Match the following

• wrenching

• causing mental or physical painrenching

• estrange

• to shorten

• truncate

• fragile; easy to break

• frangible

• mutually destructive

• internecine

• to alienate

Match the following

• arrogate

• a fight; an uproar

• patronizing

• to claim for oneself without any right or authority

• donnybrook

• in a condescending manner; with an attitude of superiority

• apocryphal

• a transformation or dramatic change

• metamorphosis

• of questionable authenticity, but widely believed

Match the following

• brigand

• someone who participates in a conversation

• scapegoat

• one who bears the blame for others

• vacillate

• to waver; to sway indecisively

• interlocutor

• a robber or bandit

• vestige

• a trace or evidence of something that once existed

Match the following

• pellucid

• to remove vulgar or objectionable material

• cosmopolitan

• transparent; clear

• expurgate

• someone who participates in a conversation

• perspicacious

• worldly; sophisticated

• nonchalant

• unconcerned; indifferent

Match the following

• atelier

• a universal truth; an established rule

• sophistry

• no longer current or applicable; antiquated

• stygian

• an artist's or a designer's workshop

• archaic

• dark and forbidding

• axiom

• a deliberately deceptive or misleading argument