Week 31 WOW Test

Match the following

• mortification

• showing in inappropriate lack of seriousness

• flagrant

• conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible

• laudable

• the modification of pitch, tone, or volume when speaking

• flippant

• strong feeling of embarrassment

• inflection

• worthy of high praise

Match the following

• prerogative

• a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will

• rancor

• expressing sorrow

• satiate

• more than is needed, desired, or required

• superfluous

• fill to satisfaction

• plaintive

• a right reserved exclusively by a person or group

It is considered _________ disrespect to talk back to teachers in Indian classrooms

• laudable

• rancor

• flagrant

• satiate

It's easy to be ___________, but we have a serious problem here.

• flippant

• superfluous

• inflection

• mortification

The obvious ______ point in the show occurs with the jump from icons of the 40s and 50s, to those of the 60s and 70s.

• prerogative

• satiate

• flippant

• inflection

• The professor praised the students for their dedication to their studies.

• rancor

• • laudable

• superfluous

• inflection

At a high school basketball game, for example, she will VERY loudly criticize a player, to the __________ of those sitting next to her.

• plaintive

• flagrant

• superfluous

• mortification

It was obvious from the stray cat’s cries he was cold and miserable.

• rancor

• laudable

• plaintive

• flippant

1. It is the president's ________ to appoint judges to the Supreme Court.

• satiate

• laudable

• 1. prerogative

• inflection

Despite their shared history, there was an undeniable _____ between the two siblings.

• flagrant

• inflection

• satiate

• rancor