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 September 2024:
1. Precise, thorough, and attentive to detail; unwaveringly ethical:
(A) demure (B) itinerant (C) scrupulous (D) cowed (E) onerous
2. To explore or measure the depths of something:
(A) plumb (B) appertain (C) obfuscate (D) rectify (E) prevail
3. Partiality, preference, or proclivity:
(A) epiphany (B) rejoinder (C) opprobrium (D) predilection (E) vacuity
4. Demonstrating very high levels of emotion or enthusiasm:
(A) sheepish (B) phlegmatic (C) devout (D) effusive (E) saturnine
5. To mediate or ponder; to chew over:
(A) chastise (B) ruminate (C) posit (D) extol (E) edify
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Mike Bergin