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Vocabulary Quiz #6

 

Word Bank:  escapade, rambunctious, toady, locofoco, confabulates, imprecate, soporific, harry, ingénue, folderol, craven, auctorial, voracious, audition, passel, kith, conciliate, afflatus, opprobrium, pogonip

 

  1. Before accepting my offer to purchase their handmade quilt, Polly and Linda took a moment to confabulate.

  2. By the time she finally got the three rambunctious children to bed, the babysitter was exhausted.

  3. The athlete's admission of using steroids earned her much opprobrium from former fans.

  4. "The white wafer sun sports a halo, and nearby hills are veiled in pogonip." (Bill Croke, The American Spectator, March 1997)

  5. His latest film is a screwball comedy depicting the calamitous escapades of two men who stow away on a cruise ship.

  6. "The workers' sweating brows wrinkled, but I heard no one imprecate the river; each just went back to passing along stories and sandbags." (William Least Heat-Moon, River-Horse)

  7. Seven-year-old Kaitlyn harried her little sister with pokes, hair pulling, and teasing, badgering her until she burst into tears.

  8. Andre makes it a point to have at least one barbecue a year at his house in order to stay in touch with his kith and kin.

  9. When she was younger, the actress was often typecast as the ingenue who is unwittingly pursued by several adoring men.

  10. Gus insists that his musical compositions are the result of hard work, not afflatus.

  11. The theater company is holding auditions today for the role of the play's central character.

  12. "The capacity to tell a plain tale is the greatest of the auctorial gifts." (Anthony Burgess, Homage to QWERT YUIOP)

  13. Cemal is a voracious reader who whips through three or four books each week.

  14. Lavinia thought it was craven of Alex to cave into pressure and retract his allegations instead of defending his position.

  15. Knowing that there will be a passel of phone and e-mail messages to deal with, Rob is dreading going back to work after his two-week vacation.

  16. After dinner, Owen sank onto the couch by the fireplace and -- succumbing to the soporific effect of his full belly and the comfortable surroundings -- quickly fell asleep.

  17. City Councilor Nguyen approved the closing of the branch library and later attempted to conciliate his constituents by pushing for free bus service to the main library.

  18. Cherie dismissed the tabloid article as useless folderol.

  19. The editorial unfairly characterizes the appointee as one of the mayor's toadies, ignoring her long record of unselfish service to the community.

  20. "It might be said that Roosevelt was the greatest locofoco since Andrew Jackson." (Robert E. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins)