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Quiz #1
World Literature
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Averse | Having a deep seated distaste; opposed |
| Amicable | Peaceable, friendly |
| Adroit | Skillful |
| Warily | Cautiously, with great care |
| Verbatim | Word for word, exactly as written or spoken |
| Unkempt | Untidy; not properly maintained |
| Tentative | Experimental in nature; uncertain |
| Mire | Thick and deep mud A situation or state of difficulty, distress, or embarrassment from which it is hard to extricate oneself |
| Stolid | not easily moved mentally or emotionally; dull |
| Indisputable | unable to be challenged or denied |
| Abrasive | causing irritation |
| Magnitude | The size, extent or importance of something |
| Dour | stern, gloomy |
| Deploy | to position or arrange |
| Bereft | Deprived of; made unhappy through a loss |
| Augment | To make larger; to increase |
| Motif | Reoccurring story features, theme or idea |
| Archetype | the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based |
| Puffery | Undue or exaggerated praise |
| Velocity | the speed of something in a given direction |
| Ignoble | Of low grade or quality; inferior |
| Ambidextrous | able to use both hands equally well; very skillful |
| Adulterate | to corrupt, make worse by the addition of something of lesser value |
| Hardy | Sturdy; resistant; having fortitude and endurance |