A Matching or Ordering Exercise

For each word in the list on the left side: click and hold on the box beside it and choose one of the definitions in the list that pops up. When you're done, click on "Check Answers." If you score less than 85% (giving away one for carelessness), get out the dictionary, figure out the right answers, and take the test again until you get them all right. Then, most importantly, follow the recommendations in the section on Vocabulary Building to make these words part of your own vocabulary.

cacophony	strictly careful soothe very moderate in eating, drinking irrelevant, beside the point inherent, inborn mystifying, puzzling harsh jumble of sounds favorable, promising brutal, aggressive overlook, permit to send away to be indecisive belittle defame subdue
subjugate	strictly careful soothe very moderate in eating, drinking irrelevant, beside the point inherent, inborn mystifying, puzzling harsh jumble of sounds favorable, promising brutal, aggressive overlook, permit to send away to be indecisive belittle defame subdue
truculent	strictly careful soothe very moderate in eating, drinking irrelevant, beside the point inherent, inborn mystifying, puzzling harsh jumble of sounds favorable, promising brutal, aggressive overlook, permit to send away to be indecisive belittle defame subdue
abstemious	strictly careful soothe very moderate in eating, drinking irrelevant, beside the point inherent, inborn mystifying, puzzling harsh jumble of sounds favorable, promising brutal, aggressive overlook, permit to send away to be indecisive belittle defame subdue
vilify	strictly careful soothe very moderate in eating, drinking irrelevant, beside the point inherent, inborn mystifying, puzzling harsh jumble of sounds favorable, promising brutal, aggressive overlook, permit to send away to be indecisive belittle defame subdue
scrupulous	strictly careful soothe very moderate in eating, drinking irrelevant, beside the point inherent, inborn mystifying, puzzling harsh jumble of sounds favorable, promising brutal, aggressive overlook, permit to send away to be indecisive belittle defame subdue
auspicious	strictly careful soothe very moderate in eating, drinking irrelevant, beside the point inherent, inborn mystifying, puzzling harsh jumble of sounds favorable, promising brutal, aggressive overlook, permit to send away to be indecisive belittle defame subdue
assuage	strictly careful soothe very moderate in eating, drinking irrelevant, beside the point inherent, inborn mystifying, puzzling harsh jumble of sounds favorable, promising brutal, aggressive overlook, permit to send away to be indecisive belittle defame subdue
cryptic	strictly careful soothe very moderate in eating, drinking irrelevant, beside the point inherent, inborn mystifying, puzzling harsh jumble of sounds favorable, promising brutal, aggressive overlook, permit to send away to be indecisive belittle defame subdue
innate	strictly careful soothe very moderate in eating, drinking irrelevant, beside the point inherent, inborn mystifying, puzzling harsh jumble of sounds favorable, promising brutal, aggressive overlook, permit to send away to be indecisive belittle defame subdue
extraneous	strictly careful soothe very moderate in eating, drinking irrelevant, beside the point inherent, inborn mystifying, puzzling harsh jumble of sounds favorable, promising brutal, aggressive overlook, permit to send away to be indecisive belittle defame subdue
relegate	strictly careful soothe very moderate in eating, drinking irrelevant, beside the point inherent, inborn mystifying, puzzling harsh jumble of sounds favorable, promising brutal, aggressive overlook, permit to send away to be indecisive belittle defame subdue
vacillate	strictly careful soothe very moderate in eating, drinking irrelevant, beside the point inherent, inborn mystifying, puzzling harsh jumble of sounds favorable, promising brutal, aggressive overlook, permit to send away to be indecisive belittle defame subdue
condone	strictly careful soothe very moderate in eating, drinking irrelevant, beside the point inherent, inborn mystifying, puzzling harsh jumble of sounds favorable, promising brutal, aggressive overlook, permit to send away to be indecisive belittle defame subdue
disparage	strictly careful soothe very moderate in eating, drinking irrelevant, beside the point inherent, inborn mystifying, puzzling harsh jumble of sounds favorable, promising brutal, aggressive overlook, permit to send away to be indecisive belittle defame subdue

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