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WWW List 29

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Definition: conversation

a)

vociferous

b)

loquacious

c)

demagogue

d)

colloquy

2.

Definition: able to live

a)

viable

b)

vivacious

c)

joie de vivre

d)

ichthyologist

3.

Definition: summary

a)

resurgence

b)

synopsis

c)

synthesis

d)

syndrome

4.

Definition: solid ground

a)

perspicacity

b)

pellucid

c)

sonorous

d)

terra firma

5.

Definition: authorize

a)

invidious

b)

punctilious

c)

sanction

d)

adherent

6.

Definition: one who fears Russia

a)

ophidiophobia

b)

Anglophobe

c)

Russophobe

d)

xenophobia

7.

Definition: medical forecast

a)

philanthropy

b)

prototype

c)

prognosis

d)

posthumous

8.

Definition: many-colored

a)

anthropomorphic

b)

monochrome

c)

polychrome

d)

chiromancy

9.

Definition: love of mankind

a)

magniloquence

b)

bonhomie

c)

amour-propre

d)

philanthropy

10.

Definition: insight

a)

perspicacity

b)

perspicuous

c)

perihelion

d)

perforate

11.

mobocracy

a)

government of the old

b)

one against government

c)

government by a few

d)

mob rule

12.

gerontocracy

a)

raising to god status

b)

government of the wealthy

c)

government of the old

d)

an eighty-year-old

13.

magniloquence

a)

great-minded

b)

great eloquence

c)

powerful person

d)

enlightening person

14.

kleptomaniac

a)

madness

b)

pathological thief

c)

people-hater

d)

obsession with one thing

15.

joie de vivre

a)

lacy design

b)

joy of living

c)

lively

d)

love of mankind

16.

in loco parentis

a)

in place of parents

b)

worldly

c)

stereo buff

d)

medical forecast

17.

Definition: worldly

a)

ponderous

b)

heliotropic

c)

cosmology

d)

mundane

18.

Definition: combination

a)

synopsis

b)

synthesis

c)

colloquy

d)

commensurate

19.

Definition: direct

a)

disputatious

b)

urbane

c)

unequivocal

d)

status quo

20.

nihilism

a)

belief in nothing

b)

belief that mind and body act on each other

c)

belief in two equal gods

d)

belief that Earth is the center of the universe

21.

audiophile

a)

multi-melodic

b)

renounce

c)

literary collection

d)

stereo buff

22.

entomology

a)

study of animals

b)

study of the universe

c)

study of living tissues

d)

insect zoology

23.

of all kinds

a)

omnipotence

b)

omnifarious

c)

omnivore

d)

omniscient

24.

Definition: causing envy

a)

invective

b)

irrevocable

c)

invidious

d)

viable

25.

Definition: reasoning down from principles

a)

demagogue

b)

decadent

c)

deduction

d)

delineate