Vocabulary Quiz 6

Match the following

• A lack of freedom; forced labor.

• servitude

• The expression of unacceptable views.

• recompense

• To pay or compensate.

• heresy

• To make better; to improve.

• condone

• To pardon or excuse.

• ameliorate

Match the following

• To avoid through craftiness.

• circumvent

• Able to be used up then discarded.

• expendable

• Expressing hatred or evil.

• diminutive

• To treat with scorn or irreverence.

• baleful

• Very small; tiny.

• profane

Match the following

• A polite term used to avoid offense.

• infirmity

• Food an drink; a meal.

• repast

• To criticize vigorously.

• compunction

• Physical or mental weakness or defect.

• euphemism

• A feeling of anxiety caused by guilt.

• berate

This word means to pardon or excuse:

• condone

• infirmity

• servitude

• recompense

This word means the expression of unacceptable views, especially those that are in conflict with established religious teaching.

• ameliorate

• baleful

• heresy

• profane

This is a polite term used to avoid directly naming something considered offensive or unpleasant.

• compunction

• berate

• repast

• euphemism

This word means to criticize vigorously, to scold vehemently.

• ameliorate

• berate

• baleful

• circumvent

This word means a feeling of uneasiness or anxiety caused by guilt.

• compunction

• circumvent

• condone

• diminutive

This word means able to be used up and then discarded or replaced.

• diminutive

• infirmity

• recompense

• expendable

This word means a lack of freedom, forced labor.

• servitude

• repast

• profane

• infirmity