A powerful 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 August 2024:
1. The moment of realization, attainment, or accomplishment:
(A) pulchritude (B) fervor (C) domicile (D) privation (E) fruition
2. Unlikely to cause injury or offense; harmless:
(A) lethargic (B) innocuous (C) existential (D) pensive (E) defunct
3. To create, cause, or beget:
(A) recant (B) undermine (C) antagonize (D) engender (E) extemporize
4. Indifferent, casual, or dismissive in attitude; uncaring or unworried:
(A) licit (B) placid (C) germane (D) cavalier (E) orthogonal
5. To eliminate, erase, or make indistinct:
(A) efface (B) disoblige (C) fructify (D) reprise (E) relegate
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Mike Bergin