Test Your Wordsmith IQ
Do you know the difference between facetious and factitious? Deliberation and delineation? Equanimity and equine? Test your wordsmith's magic on these terms.
Sam clearly missed the nuances in the discussion. What was it that Sam overlooked?
Complaints may engender change. What are complaints doing to change, in that case?
An epicure is someone who ____.
A boorish date _____.
A note from your instructor that reads, "Your paper is so filled with hyperbole that it could float away on its own hot air!" might tell you that you need to _____.
If the summer temperatures make you torpid, you are feeling _____.
"Sam is pontificating about that television show again. I wish he'd either quit watching it or quit talking about it," sighed Suzy. What was Sam doing?
It was a tacky little ring from a tawdry store on the town square. How would you describe the store?
Your bourgeois friends' taste is decidedly _____.
The dark look on Marcia's face was a harbinger, or _____, of discomfort to come.
You got correct!
Who cares about vocabulary, anyway? You're fluent in text message lingo and shorthand, so what more do you need?
You got correct!
Satisfactory -- but you might want to dust off your thesaurus now and then.
You got correct!
What dictionary? You are the unequivocal master of words!
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