Brenham Eng III Warm Ups 25-30
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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| shrew | a mouse like animal that eats insects; a bad-tempered, nagging woman
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| lucrative | profitable; producing money or wealth
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| garrulous | talking too much, especially about unimportant things
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| abridged | to shorten the number of words; to condense
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| verbose | wordy; using or containing more words than necessary
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| invokes | to call upon a higher power for assistance; to ask or appeal for; to call forth
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| finality | the quality or condition of being complete or settled; conclusiveness
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| impromptu | without previous thought or preparation
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| supercilious | showing scorn and haughtiness; disdainful; aloof or conceited
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| emendations | a correction; a change in a written text
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| intangible | not capable of being touched; not material; v ague or not easily defined
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| idiomatic | characteristic of a particular language
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| expletive | an oath or exclamation, usually profane; a word with no meaning of its own, used to complete the pattern of a phrase or sentence
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| laconic | using few words; brief in speech or expression
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| bolstered | a long narrow pillow; anything used as a support; to prop up, support, or reinforce
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| reciprocates | to give, do or take in return; to move with a backward-forward motion
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| wistful | full of longing; yearning; wishful
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| furor | frenzied anger; rage a public uproar or outburst of indignation; great enthusiasm for
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| subterfuge | a trick, excuse, or deception used to escape something unpleasant
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| tawdry | gaudy; showy and cheap
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| abridged | shorten, abstract, condense, reduce, summarize
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| emendations | change, correction, editing, revisal
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| finality | completeness, entirety, finish, perfection, terminality
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| garrulous | babbling, blabbermouth, chatty, verbose, wordy
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| impromptu | unrehearsed, improvised, ad-lib
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| invokes | appeal, beg, entreat, request, summon
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| lucrative | advantageous, fruitful, profitable, worthwhile
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| shrew | biddy, nag, she-devil, vixen winch
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| supercilious | bossy, cocky, condescending, haughty, proud
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| verbose | garrulous, loquacious, redundant, repetitive, rhetorical, talkative
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| bolstered | aid, boost, reinforce, strengthen, support
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| expletives | curse, cuss word, interjection, oath
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| furor | ado, commotion, craze, mania, uproar
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| idiomatic | colloquial, dialectal, local, natural, vernacular
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| intangible | abstract, elusive, hypothetical, imperceptible, invisible
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| laconic | brief, compact, concise, crisp, curt, terse
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| reciprocate | barter, correspond, match, return, trade
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| subterfuge | artifice, bluff, device, hoax, ploy, trick
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| tawdry | blatant, brazed, crude, offensive sleazy
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| wistful | contemplative, desirous, dreamy, nostalgic, thoughtful
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Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
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To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
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.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
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