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WorksheetsVocabulary Review: Part II Lessons 1&2
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
This word, as a proper noun, is a character in Spenser's epic poem, "Faerie Queen."
braggadocio
malaprop
Lothario
Panglossian
This word describes a person easily dominated or intimidated.
panglossian
sadistic
Babbitt
milquetoast
This word originated as a celebration of the Roman god of wine.
Babbitt
bacchanalia
braggadocio
Janus-faced
Jabberwocky is all of the following, EXCEPT:
gibberish
coherent
nonsense language
incomprehensible
A pyrrhic victory describes a win at any cost.
True
False
This proper noun is also a character in a novel by Sinclair Lewis.
Machiavellian
Panglossian
Babbitt
chauvinism
This word describes a person who demands absolute adherence to rules and authority.
lethargy
martinet
Babbitt
Lothario
This word comes from the name of a French soldier and novelist who delighted in inflicting cruel pain on others.
philistine
malaprop
sadistic
martinet
This may be the idea of someone's
Janus-face
Shangri-la
crossing the Rubican
pandemonium
Pictured here after a sport team's big win.
lethargy
pyrrhic victory
Shangri-la
pandemonium
Pictured here:
Babbitt
sadistic
lethargy
milquetoast
This word derives from a soldier's extreme devotion and patriotism to Napoleon.
crossing the Rubicon
martinet
chauvinism
machiavellian
This word comes from the novel Candide by French writer Voltaire.
martinet
Spoonerism
Malaprop
Panglossian
"A blushing crow" versus "A crushing blow"
spoonerism
malaprop
"She's as headstrong as an allegory" said my brother about our mother. What he really meant was "alligator."
Malaprop
Spoonerism
This character might be considered a modern day ___.
Lothario
Babbitt
Milquetoast
Malaprop
A political doctrine in which the ends justifies the means.
pyrrhic victory
Panglossian
Machiavellian
Crossing the Rubicon
This image depicts:
Philistine
Babbitt
bacchanalia
Janus-faced
This term denotes an English clergyman noted for slips of the tongue.
spoonerism
malaprop
Janus-faced
chauvinism
This term describes a person ignorant of cultural values.
Babbitt
Milquetoast
Panglossian
sadistic
