\u201cOne ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.\u201d
\n\u2014Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<\/p>\n
We try to ensure that our vocabulary tests concentrate on \u201creasonable words.\u201d Do you know the ones listed below? The answers directly follow the quiz.<\/p>\n
1. gratuitous<\/strong><\/p>\n A) wide-eyed 2. vapid<\/strong><\/p>\n A) cloudy 3. harbinger<\/strong><\/p>\n A) a port 4. jingoism<\/strong><\/p>\n A) aggressive patriotism 5. yore<\/strong><\/p>\n A) a forgotten event 6. quash<\/strong><\/p>\n A) put an end to 7. ken<\/strong><\/p>\n A) a shell-like exterior 8. attrition<\/strong><\/p>\n A) an act of acknowledgment 9. paucity<\/strong><\/p>\n A) abundance 10. Pyrrhic victory<\/strong><\/p>\n A) an overwhelming triumph <\/p>\n ANSWERS<\/strong><\/p>\n 1<\/strong>: D) unnecessary. There\u2019s too much gratuitous violence in that movie<\/em>.<\/p>\n 2<\/strong>: B) dull. The vapid lecture seemed to go on for days<\/em>.<\/p>\n 3<\/strong>: D) a forerunner. Some think a four-leaf clover is <\/em>a harbinger of good fortune<\/em>.<\/p>\n 4<\/strong>: A) aggressive patriotism. It was an expression of jingoism, a hatred for all outside the tribe<\/em>.<\/p>\n 5<\/strong>: C) a time long past. In the days of yore, the internet did not exist<\/em>.<\/p>\n 6<\/strong>: A) put an end to. They moved to quash the indictment on which he was brought to trial<\/em>.<\/p>\n 7<\/strong>: B) awareness. These strange phenomena are quite out of the reach and ken of ordinary mortals<\/em>.<\/p>\n 8<\/strong>: C) a process of wearing down or weakening. The battle resulted in further attrition of their army<\/em>.<\/p>\n 9<\/strong>: D) shortage. The committee was hindered by a paucity of useful answers<\/em>.<\/p>\n 10<\/strong>: C) a victory won at too great a cost. It was a Pyrrhic victory\u2014it was actually the beginning of the end.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cOne ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.\u201d \u2014Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We try to ensure that our vocabulary tests concentrate on \u201creasonable words.\u201d Do you know the ones listed below? The answers […]<\/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":[10,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-definitions","category-vocabulary"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294"}],"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=2294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nB) generous
\nC) costly
\nD) unnecessary<\/p>\n
\nB) dull
\nC) important
\nD) fast-talking<\/p>\n
\nB) a drunkard
\nC) a narrow road
\nD) a forerunner<\/p>\n
\nB) mischievous behavior
\nC) extreme laziness
\nD) fondness for music<\/p>\n
\nB) a distant land
\nC) a time long past
\nD) belonging to you<\/p>\n
\nB) divide into equal portions
\nC) proceed with caution
\nD) collide with<\/p>\n
\nB) awareness
\nC) a distant relative
\nD) brilliance<\/p>\n
\nB) good dietary habits
\nC) a process of wearing down or weakening
\nD) fascination with someone or something<\/p>\n
\nB) reluctance
\nC) displeasure
\nD) shortage<\/p>\n
\nB) a victory that does not matter
\nC) a victory won at too great a cost
\nD) a victory by default<\/p>\n