Vocabulary Quiz #4 (only)

A medieval science aimed at the transmutation of metals, especially base metal into gold; any magical wonderful transformation

• Alchemy

• Convention

• Implacable

• Static

Bring up, announce, begin talking to

• Table

• Exhort

• Broach

• Forestall

an established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature

• Forestall

• Canon

• Effrontery

• Alchemy

a generally agreed-upon practice or attitude

• Recalcitrant

• Superfluous

• Plumb

• Convention

based on observation or experiment

• Peruse

• Broach

• Empirical

• Picaresque

extreme boldness; presumptuousness

• Innocuous

• Effrontery

• Succor

• Static

to encourage, to make urgent appeals

• Exhort

• Peruse

• Plumb

• Empirical

to act in a way to hinder, exclude or prevent action; to circumvent or thwart

• Convention

• ALchemy

• Rebus

• Forestall

not capable of being appeased or significantly changed

• Table

• Implacable

• Static

• Broach

ingrained within one's nature, firmly established, essential

• Recalcitrant

• Canon

• Forestall

• Inherent