Vocabulary: Matching Exercise IV

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.

lugubrious	timid hard to understand easy, fluent unpredictable rumored, claimed pollute, water down difficult tiny morose sociable, fun-loving quarrelsome, combative exuberant, bubbly substitute fervently devoted hermitlike, simple
arduous	timid hard to understand easy, fluent unpredictable rumored, claimed pollute, water down difficult tiny morose sociable, fun-loving quarrelsome, combative exuberant, bubbly substitute fervently devoted hermitlike, simple
ascetic	timid hard to understand easy, fluent unpredictable rumored, claimed pollute, water down difficult tiny morose sociable, fun-loving quarrelsome, combative exuberant, bubbly substitute fervently devoted hermitlike, simple
diffident	timid hard to understand easy, fluent unpredictable rumored, claimed pollute, water down difficult tiny morose sociable, fun-loving quarrelsome, combative exuberant, bubbly substitute fervently devoted hermitlike, simple
gregarious	timid hard to understand easy, fluent unpredictable rumored, claimed pollute, water down difficult tiny morose sociable, fun-loving quarrelsome, combative exuberant, bubbly substitute fervently devoted hermitlike, simple
facile	timid hard to understand easy, fluent unpredictable rumored, claimed pollute, water down difficult tiny morose sociable, fun-loving quarrelsome, combative exuberant, bubbly substitute fervently devoted hermitlike, simple
ebullient	timid hard to understand easy, fluent unpredictable rumored, claimed pollute, water down difficult tiny morose sociable, fun-loving quarrelsome, combative exuberant, bubbly substitute fervently devoted hermitlike, simple
surrogate	timid hard to understand easy, fluent unpredictable rumored, claimed pollute, water down difficult tiny morose sociable, fun-loving quarrelsome, combative exuberant, bubbly substitute fervently devoted hermitlike, simple
vitiate	timid hard to understand easy, fluent unpredictable rumored, claimed pollute, water down difficult tiny morose sociable, fun-loving quarrelsome, combative exuberant, bubbly substitute fervently devoted hermitlike, simple
zealous	timid hard to understand easy, fluent unpredictable rumored, claimed pollute, water down difficult tiny morose sociable, fun-loving quarrelsome, combative exuberant, bubbly substitute fervently devoted hermitlike, simple
purported	timid hard to understand easy, fluent unpredictable rumored, claimed pollute, water down difficult tiny morose sociable, fun-loving quarrelsome, combative exuberant, bubbly substitute fervently devoted hermitlike, simple
mercurial	timid hard to understand easy, fluent unpredictable rumored, claimed pollute, water down difficult tiny morose sociable, fun-loving quarrelsome, combative exuberant, bubbly substitute fervently devoted hermitlike, simple
minuscule	timid hard to understand easy, fluent unpredictable rumored, claimed pollute, water down difficult tiny morose sociable, fun-loving quarrelsome, combative exuberant, bubbly substitute fervently devoted hermitlike, simple
belligerent	timid hard to understand easy, fluent unpredictable rumored, claimed pollute, water down difficult tiny morose sociable, fun-loving quarrelsome, combative exuberant, bubbly substitute fervently devoted hermitlike, simple
abstruse	timid hard to understand easy, fluent unpredictable rumored, claimed pollute, water down difficult tiny morose sociable, fun-loving quarrelsome, combative exuberant, bubbly substitute fervently devoted hermitlike, simple

Your score is:

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