Vocabulary Test 2

Name:__________________

Match the words in the first column to the best available answer in the second column.

 

_____	beseech	1)not revealing one's opinion or purpose
_____	cavort	2)indifference to pleasure or pain; not showing emotion
_____	chores	3)deep awareness of the suffering of another coupled with the wish to relieve it
_____	compassion	4)having no useful result; without effect
_____	conspiracy	5)in a profoundly moving manner
_____	defiant	6)to spend or use wastefully
_____	degradation	7)to make a formal beginning of
_____	exhilarate	8)to leap or romp about
_____	futile	9)begging; a humble request or prayer
_____	garish	10)a filthy and wretched condition
_____	impoverished	11)awful
_____	inaugurate	12)one's relatives; family
_____	incredulous	13)stubbornly contrary; wrong; harmful
_____	infernal	14)to beg
_____	kin	15)poor
_____	noncommittal	16)bitter regret
_____	perverse	17)the state of being experienced; maturity
_____	poignantly	18)the routine duties of running a household or farm
_____	remorse	19)boldly resistant of an opposing force or authority
_____	sever	20)doubtful; disbelieving
_____	sophistication	21)a joining or acting together in a secretive way;often with wrongful motives
_____	squalor	22)to cut off
_____	squander	23)to make merry or lively
_____	stoicism	24)a decline to a lower condition; with loss of dignity
_____	supplication	25)too bright or gaudy