Vocabulary, number 2
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Revitrifying: "Near them a black and khaki army of labourers was busy revitrifying the surface of the Great West Road." | to change or make into a glassy surface
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| Aquiline: "The fifty-six four-spindle chucking and turning machines were being manipulated by fifty-six aquiline and ginger Gammas." | hooked
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| Brachcyephalic: "The warden was a blond and brachycephalic Alpha-Minus, short, red, moon-faced, and broad-shouldered..." | small or flat head
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| Pneumatic: "But she really was too pneumatic." | filled with air (an airhead)
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| Derision: "They had mocked him through his misery and remorse, mocked him with how hideous a note of cynical derision!" | contemptuous ridicule or mockery
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| Plangently: "...that plangently repeated and repeated the brief and unescapably haunting melody of the first Solidarity Hymn." | beating with a loud or deep sound
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| Aseptic: "I remember how it used to upset me, all that dirt, and nothing being aseptic." | free from disease causing organisms
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| Inexorably: "But inexorably, every thirty seconds, the minute hand of the electric clock above his bed jumped forward with an almost imperceptible click." | not capable of being altered
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| Zenith: "Behind them, in the west, the crimson and orange were almost faded; a dark bank of cloud had crept into the zenith." | an imaginary point directly above a certain location
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| Stethoscopic: "...-and the buzzing was interrupted by a stethoscopic wheeze and cackle, by hiccoughs and sudden squeaks." | as coming from within the internal cavities of the body
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You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
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