{"id":2039,"date":"2015-10-27T11:52:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T17:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/?p=2039"},"modified":"2020-11-25T11:14:25","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T17:14:25","slug":"test-your-vocabulary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/vocabulary\/test-your-vocabulary\/","title":{"rendered":"Test Your Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe richer and more copious one\u2019s vocabulary and the greater one\u2019s awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one\u2019s thinking. Knowledge of things and knowledge of the words for them grow together. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the thing.\u201d
\n\u2015Henry Hazlitt, Thinking as a Science<\/em><\/p>\n

Here is another of our intermittent vocabulary tests. The answers directly follow the quiz.<\/p>\n

1<\/strong>. arcane<\/strong><\/p>\n

A) evil
\nB) sweet
\nC) mysterious
\nD) curved<\/p>\n

2<\/strong>. temerity<\/strong><\/p>\n

A) boldness
\nB) fear
\nC) inflexibility
\nD) foresight<\/p>\n

3. feckless<\/strong><\/p>\n

A) uninformed
\nB) sterile
\nC) incompetent
\nD) distasteful<\/p>\n

4. precipitous<\/strong><\/p>\n

A) unexpected
\nB) edgy
\nC) clean
\nD) steep<\/p>\n

5. stolid<\/strong><\/p>\n

A) muscular
\nB) impassive
\nC) watchful
\nD) confused<\/p>\n

6. egregious<\/strong><\/p>\n

A) outrageous
\nB) angry
\nC) desperate
\nD) life-changing<\/p>\n

7. trenchant<\/strong><\/p>\n

A) watery
\nB) sharp
\nC) melodic
\nD) handy<\/p>\n

8. assuage<\/strong><\/p>\n

A) demolish
\nB) predict
\nC) relieve
\nD) condemn<\/p>\n

9. protean<\/strong><\/p>\n

A) healthy
\nB) versatile
\nC) unruly
\nD) implausible<\/p>\n

10. oxymoron<\/strong><\/p>\n

A) a complete fool
\nB) a muscular bully
\nC) a legal document that voids a contract
\nD) a phrase that seems to contradict itself<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

ANSWERS<\/strong><\/p>\n

1<\/strong>: C) mysterious. Their arcane habits and practices shocked our Western eyes<\/em>.<\/p>\n

2<\/strong>: A) boldness. He had the temerity to disobey the judge\u2019s orders.<\/em><\/p>\n

3<\/strong>: C) incompetent. Rita\u2019s feckless cousin just lost another job<\/em>.<\/p>\n

4<\/strong>: D) steep. The young hikers turned back, unwilling to scale the precipitous cliffs<\/em>.<\/p>\n

5<\/strong>: B) impassive. For all its stolid reputation, the country has become surprisingly flexible<\/em>.<\/p>\n

6<\/strong>: A) outrageous. This was an egregious act of betrayal.<\/em><\/p>\n

7<\/strong>: B) sharp. Oscar\u2019s trenchant wit won him many an argument<\/em>.<\/p>\n

8<\/strong>: C) relieve. To assuage her guilt, she decided to change her ways<\/em>.<\/p>\n

9<\/strong>: B) versatile. He is a protean musician who can play in almost any style<\/em>.<\/p>\n

10<\/strong>: D) a phrase that seems to contradict itself. Isn\u2019t \u201cjumbo shrimp\u201d an oxymoron?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe richer and more copious one\u2019s vocabulary and the greater one\u2019s awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one\u2019s thinking. Knowledge of things and knowledge of the words for them grow together. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}