The Vocab Break

Match the following

• Anomaly

• Sedulous

• Abstruse

• Recondite

• Banal

• Aberration

• Assiduous

• Epitome

• Quintessence

• Pedestrian

Match the following

• Palliate

• Mitigate

• Transient

• Squalid

• Loquacious

• Ephemeral

• Stolid

• Garrulous

• Sordid

• Stoical

Match the following

• Vex

• Nascent

• Rapacious

• Irk

• Mellifluous

• Voracious

• Noxious

• Dulcet

• Inchoate

• Noisome

diligent, persevering, hardworking

• sedulous

• venerable

• dulcet

• ostensible

Hard to understand

• august

• boisterous

• abstruse

• impudent

Match the following

• Abstruse, Recondite

• Loud

• Boisterous, Raucous

• Disrespectful

• Aberration, Anomaly

• Strange

• Ephemeral, Transient

• Transitory

• Impudent, insolent

• Incomprehensible

The government officials have been exposed for their massive corruption.

They have stolen billions from the country's cash funds.

What would best describe the officials?

• garrulous

• boisterous

• rapacious

• stoical

Their relationship was ______ but profound - so much so that it took him five years to move on from that short love story.

• Transient

• Squalid

• Noisome

• Abstruse

Are you for real? Taking care of these children has been a nightmare!!! They need constant supervision!!!! Nobody told me that they need _______ care!!! I need a break!!!

• inchoate

• banal

• assiduous

• insolent

Do you know what's happened in this building? Do you know how many children have been kidnapped and trafficked here?! This _____ establishment must be taken down now! We cannot have it taint the neighborhood!!!

• Ephemeral

• Nascent

• Stolid

• Sordid