Quizziz #10

_____ comes from the Latin vorāre, "to devour." The word is usually associated with swallowing or devouring food in a ravenous manner, but it can be used of someone intensely involved in any activity.

Let no evil speech proceed from your mouth: but that which is good, to the _____ of faith: that it may administer grace to the hearers.

• edification

• voracious

• officious

• spurious

When a company wants to reduce its payroll without firing anyone, it will sometimes do so through _____; that is, by waiting for people to retire or quit without hiring anyone new to replace them. In a more general sense, the word means break down, wear out, or reduce in numbers.

The solidest rocks are day by day disintegrated slowly, but none the less surely, by wind and rain and frost, by mechanical _____ and chemical decomposition, to form the pulverized earth and clay.

• pious

• gregarious

• onerous

• attrition

A _____ person is full of scruples, which are concerns about doing things that are morally right. Such a person is hesitant or doubtful, and might have trouble deciding what is morally right or wrong. The adjective _____ is from Latin scrūpulōsus, from scrūpulus, "scruple."

Scrupulous has the same or almost the same meaning as:

• tactful

• baleful

• careful

• helpful

Enhanced by _____ attention to details of color, light and shadow, “Last Supper” radiates its new life without losing the artist's original vision.

If someone is deeply religious and visibly follows all the moral and ethical codes of his religion, he is _____. Don't become a priest if you're not prepared to live a _____ life.

If someone believes deeply in something, and lets everyone see it through their behavior, then they are _____, whether they're _____Christians or _____ environmentalists. It differs from its synonym devout, which implies deep religious sentiment, whereas _____ emphasizes the public display of feeling.

They have to adapt to a life of pretending to be _____, she explains, and of following the rules of a religion they don't believe in.

• pious

• edification

• attrition

• gregarious