Vocabulary Quiz 4

This quiz consists of words taken from Vocabulary Lists Week 16 through Week 20. Note: Some questions will require you to choose the best word for the definition provided while other questions will require you to choose the correct definition for the given word.

published on August 30, 2011
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Virtuoso

Hint: 1 choice
(n.) one who excels in an art; a highly skilled musical performer
(n.) a trip or outing, usually for fun
(n.) patience, restraint, tolerance
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Knell

Hint: 1 choice
(n.) the solemn sound of a bell, often indicating a death
(n.) something that does not fit into normal order
(n.) a mark or trace of something lost or vanished
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(adj.) easily taught or trained

Hint: 1 choice
Lurid
Docile
Expedient
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Temerity

Hint: 1 choice
(n.) hostility
(n.) the marking of boundaries of categories
(n.) audacity, recklessness
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(n.) the highest point, culminating point

Hint: 1 choice
Demarcation
Avarice
Zenith
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Enthrall

Hint: 1 choice
(v.) to make up, invent
(v.) to charm, hold spellbound
(v.) to do something in an unprecedented way
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(adj.) roomy

Hint: 1 choice
Pallid
Lithe
Commodious
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Acrimony

Hint: 1 choice
(n.) a slight variation in meaning, tone, expression
(n.) bitterness, discord
(n.) the marking of boundaries or categories
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(adj.) meticulous, demanding, having high and often unattainable standards

Hint: 1 choice
Vicarious
Cunning
Fastidious
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Servile

Hint: 1 choice
(adj.) subservient
(adj.) experiencing through another
(adj.) advisable, advantageous, serving one's self-interest
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Strident

Hint: 1 choice
(adj.) harsh, loud
(adj.) graceful, flexible, supple
(adj.) lacking concern, emotion
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(n.) the lowest point of something

Hint: 1 choice
Tirade
Vestige
Nadir
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(v.) to deny knowledge of or responsibility for

Hint: 1 choice
Allocate
Disavow
Refute
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Assuage

Hint: 1 choice
(v.) to ease, pacify
(v.) to distribute, set aside
(v.) to pardon, deliberately overlook
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Ingenuous

Hint: 1 choice
(adj.) lacking concern, emotion
(adj.) not devious; innocent and candid
(adj.) sly, clever at being deceitful
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(n.) a mournful song; especially for a funeral

Hint: 1 choice
Dirge
Anomaly
Forebearance
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(v.) to move in waves

Hint: 1 choice
Atrophy
Exasperate
Undulate
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Swarthy

Hint: 1 choice
(adj.) clear, easily understandable
(adj.) of dark color or complexion
(adj.) lacking color
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(adj.) filled with or accompanied by

Hint: 1 choice
Expedient
Fraught
Comprehensive
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(v.) to be indecisive

Hint: 1 choice
Dither
Forestall
Refute