Vocabulary and Definitions Assessment

The act of correcting or adjusting something is called:

• Rectification

• Fatuous

• Pediment

• Virtuosity

Showing a lack of intelligence or thought; foolish:

• Incredulity

• Fatuous

• Etiolate

• Assent

A decorative gable or band around the top of a building:

• Driveling

• Pediment

• Oligarchy

• Effigy

To free or disengage:

• Extricate

• Expropriate

• Demur

• Haranguing

To become weak or lose vigor:

• Etiolate

• Bolster

• Persiflage

• Indefatigably

Unable or unwilling to believe:

• Simian

• Rectification

• Incredulity

• Prosaically

A movement of the body, such as a bow or curtsy, expressing respect:

• Obeisance

• Supple

• Avaricious

• Ingenious

Great skill or ability:

• Virtuosity

• Superfluous

• Lunacy

• Stratagem

Guile; craftiness:

• Cunning

• Orthodoxy

• Remonstrances

• Stratagem

Stating clearly:

• Bolster

• Enunciating

• Demur

• Feral