Saturdays are perfect days for retrieval practice. It's time for a pop quiz on last month’s words!
For each of the following five definitions, select the word defined. Answers are at the end of the question set.
1. Something or someone that defies understanding or explanation:
(A) malaise (B) autonomy (C) acuity (D) contingency (E) enigma
2. Quickly or easily provoked to anger; irritable:
(A) underwhelmed (B) vagabond (C) irascible (D) recumbent (E) mercantile
3. To set apart or put in safekeeping; to withdraw:
(A) perseverate (B) sequester (C) epitomize (D) inundate (E) tranquilize
4. Manipulative speech or activity meant to win political support by appealing to popular prejudices:
(A) demagoguery (B) solipsism (C) propensity (D) panacea (E) antipathy
5. Lacking in honesty or sincerity; deceitful or contrived:
(A) inexplicable (B) mimetic (C) disingenuous (D) redolent (E) supervocalic
ANSWERS: 1.E 2.C 3.B 4.A 5.C
—If you didn't get 5 out of 5, go back and review last month's words!—