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.

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Virtuoso

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

Knell

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(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

(adj.) easily taught or trained

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Lurid
Docile
Expedient

Temerity

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(n.) hostility
(n.) the marking of boundaries of categories
(n.) audacity, recklessness

(n.) the highest point, culminating point

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Demarcation
Avarice
Zenith

Enthrall

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(v.) to make up, invent
(v.) to charm, hold spellbound
(v.) to do something in an unprecedented way

(adj.) roomy

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Pallid
Lithe
Commodious

Acrimony

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(n.) a slight variation in meaning, tone, expression
(n.) bitterness, discord
(n.) the marking of boundaries or categories

(adj.) meticulous, demanding, having high and often unattainable standards

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Vicarious
Cunning
Fastidious

Servile

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(adj.) subservient
(adj.) experiencing through another
(adj.) advisable, advantageous, serving one's self-interest

Strident

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(adj.) harsh, loud
(adj.) graceful, flexible, supple
(adj.) lacking concern, emotion

(n.) the lowest point of something

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Tirade
Vestige
Nadir

(v.) to deny knowledge of or responsibility for

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Allocate
Disavow
Refute

Assuage

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(v.) to ease, pacify
(v.) to distribute, set aside
(v.) to pardon, deliberately overlook

Ingenuous

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(adj.) lacking concern, emotion
(adj.) not devious; innocent and candid
(adj.) sly, clever at being deceitful

(n.) a mournful song; especially for a funeral

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Dirge
Anomaly
Forebearance

(v.) to move in waves

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Atrophy
Exasperate
Undulate

Swarthy

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(adj.) clear, easily understandable
(adj.) of dark color or complexion
(adj.) lacking color

(adj.) filled with or accompanied by

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Expedient
Fraught
Comprehensive

(v.) to be indecisive

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Dither
Forestall
Refute