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Mr D's Reading Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Having to do with Finances | Fiscal |
| Kindly | Benign |
| put into | Infuse |
| not able or willing to accept | Intolerant |
| standards or test by which something can be judged | Criteria |
| combined in a pleasing, orderly arrangement | Harmonious |
| vivdly expressive | Eloquent |
| in complete agreement; united in opinion | Unanimous |
| future generations; descendants | Posterity |
| Rule by a small, elite group | oligarchy |
| difference of opinion | Dissension |
| distracts; entertains or amuses | Diverts |
| spreading throughout | Pervading |
| of little importance; insignificant | Trivial |
| strong desires or ambitions | Aspirations |
| postponed or delayed | Deferred |
| deeply sympathetic | Compassionate |
| group united for a common goal | Alliance |
| triumphantly | Exultantly |
| uninhabited; barren | Desolate |
| universal; infinite | Cosmic |
| make unfriendly | Alienate |
| repay | Compensate |
| embarrassing; undignified | humiliating |
| mainly; for the most part | predominantly |
| not permitted by the US Constitution | unconstitutional |
| thinking or considering carefully and fully | deliberating |
| kept down by cruel or unjust power | oppressed |
| people who leave a dangerous area | evacuees |
| persistent; holding on firmly | tenacious |
| comforting | consoling |
| grim; gruesome | macabre |
| inclined; willing | predisposed |
| tending to change abruptly and without apparent reason | capricious |
| touching; communication | contact |
| in proper order for being seen or met by others | presentable |
| empty; bare | barren |
| in a consistent way | correspondingly |
| determined; resolved | resolute |
| strong belief; certainty | conviction |
| careful about what one says or does | discreet |
| believability | credibility |
| something not previously known | revelation |
| genuine; real | authentic |
| group moving forward, as in a parade | procession |
| inappropriate | unseemly |
| people fleeing from danger | fugitives |
| something that makes a person act | incentive |
| untidy; messy | disheveled |
| rebellious | mutinous |
| not easy to please; very critical of anything crude or coarse | fastidious |
| techniques or means for working things out | devices |
| avoided | evaded |
| lack of knowledge or awareness | ignorance |
| very heavy | ponderous |
| go aimlessly; wander | roam |
| restlessly | uneasily |
| not reacting | unresponsive |
| grove in the ground made by a wheeled vehicle or natural causes | rut |
| tries to decide | debates |
| the act of meditating on or pondering | Contemplation |