Lesson 4 Def. Quiz English CPIII

ordinary, commonplace

• Ambivalent

• Mundane

• Precocious

• Virulent

Quickly changeable, easily vaporized

• Volatile

• Verbose

• Symmetry

• Superfluous

to aggravate, to irritate, to vex

• Disparage

• Insipid

• Exacerbate

• Discord

threatening

• Capricious

• Trivia

• Euphemism

• Ominous

lack of agreement. tension, strife

• Benign

• Discord

• Embellish

• Obscure

abundantly fruitful, marked by great productivity

• Tranquil

• Revere

• Prolific

• Fastidious

Strong disinclination, disliking

• Subtle

• Ominous

• Verbose

• Aversion

quarrelsome, stirring controversy

• Contentious

• Gluttonous

• Volatile

• Arrogant

extremely poisonous; hateful

• Virulent

• Mundane

• Contentious

• Obscure

substitution of an inoffensive term for one that is offensive

• Furtive

• Euphemism

• Gregarious

• Verbose