Mastery of practical English vocabulary improves understanding and elevates communication. How strong is your vocabulary? Try your luck with this test of the most essential words covered by Roots2Words in October 2024:
1. Showing hostile or aggressive behavior:
(A) rudimentary (B) commensal (C) quintessential (D) belligerent (E) paramount
2. The act or state of release from guilt, obligation, or punishment:
(A) progeny (B) absolution (C) inflection (D) insufficiency (E) contravention
3. To involve someone or something in a conflict, argument, or difficulty:
(A) saunter (B) impend (C) precede (D) grouse (E) embroil
4. Something presumptuous, insolent, or unseemly:
(A) impertinence (B) penitence (C) umbrage (D) wraith (E) indomitability
5. Unexpected and fortuitous:
(A) derogatory (B) serendipitous (C) timorous (D) titular (E) cursory
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Mike Bergin