Lesson 14   -   edHelper.com
Name _____________________________
Date ___________________

Word List
culminate
culprit
cultivate
culture
currency
cursory
curtail
cycle
dainty
daze
decade
decided
decipher
decisive
declaim
decompose
decorous
dedication
deem
deface
defame
depose
deprive
deride
descent
 
 


Matching

Match each definition with a word.

      culture 1. that which is excellent in the arts, manners, etc; polish; refinement
___________________________ 2. the act or process of going downward; fall
___________________________ 3. a person or other agent guilty of or responsible for an offense or fault.
___________________________ 4. to overwhelm; dazzle; blind
___________________________ 5. to separate or resolve into constituent parts or elements; disintegrate; analyze; break
___________________________ 6. characterized by or displaying no or little hesitation; resolute; determined; bent; set; settled
___________________________ 7. in no way uncertain or ambiguous; unquestionable; unmistakable; determine; figure; conclude
___________________________ 8. general acceptance; prevalence; vogue; lucre; needful
___________________________ 9. characterized by dignified propriety in conduct, manners, appearance, character, etc; becoming; proper
___________________________ 10. to form or have an opinion; judge; think; account; reckon; regard
___________________________ 11. to deprive of rank or office, esp. from an important position such as that of king; uncrown; displace; dethrone
___________________________ 12. to speak aloud in an oratorical manner; make a formal speech; mouth; soapbox; rant
___________________________ 13. to laugh at in scorn or contempt; scoff or jeer at; mock; quiz; rally; scout
___________________________ 14. of delicate beauty; exquisite; goody; kickshaw; delicacy
___________________________ 15. to reach the highest point, summit, or highest development (usually fol. by in); cap; climax; crown
___________________________ 16. going rapidly over something, without noticing details; hasty; superficial; sketchy; depthless
___________________________ 17. a round of years or a recurring period of time, esp. one in which certain events or phenomena repeat themselves in the same order and at the same intervals; circle
___________________________ 18. the state of being dedicated
___________________________ 19. to attack the good name or reputation of, as by uttering or publishing maliciously or falsely anything injurious; slander or libel; calumniate; asperse; traduce
___________________________ 20. to take a possession or attribute away from; divest of; bare; disrobe; denudate
___________________________ 21. to discover the meaning of (anything obscure or difficult to trace or understand); cryptanalyze; decode; crack
___________________________ 22. a period of ten years beginning with a year whose last digit is zero
___________________________ 23. a horizontal, spiral termination to the lower end of a stair railing; abbreviate; cut; retrench
___________________________ 24. to mar the surface or appearance of; disfigure; disfashion
___________________________ 25. to use a cultivator on; tend; labor