Lesson 32   -   edHelper.com
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Word List
learned
legacy
legendary
legislation
legitimate
lethargy
levity
liable
libel
liberal
liberate
listless
livid
lofty
logic
longevity
lubricate
lucid
ludicrous
lull
lumber
luminous
lush
magnify
maintain
 
 


Matching

Match each definition with a word.

      lubricate 1. to make slippery or smooth; apply a lubricant to; buy; have; square
___________________________ 2. easy to understand; lucid; clear; incandescent; beaming
___________________________ 3. legally responsible; accountable; answerable
___________________________ 4. to keep in an appropriate condition, operation, or force; keep unimpaired; preserve; save
___________________________ 5. miscellaneous useless articles that are stored away; stumble; galumph; stump
___________________________ 6. the act of making or enacting laws.
___________________________ 7. to increase the actual size of; enlarge; laud; celebrate; panegyrize
___________________________ 8. favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs; handsome; free; bountiful
___________________________ 9. very pale, as from fear or anger; ashen; pallid; ashy
___________________________ 10. causing laughter because of absurdity; provoking or deserving derision; ridiculous; laughable; funny; gelastic
___________________________ 11. the process of sound reasoning.
___________________________ 12. in accordance with established rules, principles, or standards; lawful
___________________________ 13. exalted in rank, dignity, or character; eminent; proud; high-and-mighty
___________________________ 14. a state of having very low energy with drowsiness and apathy; lassitude; torpidness; torpidity; languor
___________________________ 15. Law. defamation by written or printed words, pictures, or in any form other than by spoken words or gestures.the act or crime of publishing it.a formal written declaration or statement, as one containing the allegations of a plaintiff or the grounds of a charge; tear; asperse; defame
___________________________ 16. to put to sleep or rest by soothing means; becalm; allay
___________________________ 17. characterized by luxuriant vegetation; prodigal; profuse; exuberant
___________________________ 18. feeling or showing no energy or no interest in doing anything; lethargic; limp; languorous
___________________________ 19. lightness of mind, character, or behavior; lack of appropriate seriousness or earnestness; flippancy; volatility; light-mindedness
___________________________ 20. length of life.
___________________________ 21. to free or release, esp. from bondage, oppression, or captivity; unchain; unbind; manumit
___________________________ 22. by or for scholars; get; pick up
___________________________ 23. easily understood; completely intelligible or comprehensible; lustrous; lambent; refulgent
___________________________ 24. of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a legend; mythological; mythical
___________________________ 25. Law. a gift of property, esp. personal property, as money, by will; a bequest.