Lesson 48   -   edHelper.com
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Word List
solar
solemn
solitary
solo
somber
sonnet
sovereign
speculate
sphinx
spontaneous
sporadic
spurious
squalid
squelch
staid
stately
statistics
status
steadfast
stealth
stereotype
stigma
stilted
stimulus
stipend
 
 


Matching

Match each definition with a word.

      somber 1. dark and dull, as color, or as things in respect to color; dusk; lightless
___________________________ 2. secretive, surreptitious, or covert movement or procedure; sneakiness; furtiveness; surreptitiously; secretly
___________________________ 3. artificially or stiffly formal; pompous; affected; euphuistic; declamatory; bombastic
___________________________ 4. to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often fol. by on, upon, or a clause); reason; think
___________________________ 5. being, traveling, or living without others; alone; unaccompanied; misanthropic; reclusive; standoffish
___________________________ 6. (used with a sing. verb) the mathematical study of numerical information, esp. representative information about a limited portion of a population that is used to make generalized conclusions about the whole.
___________________________ 7. firm in purpose, resolution, faith, attachment, etc., as a person; immotive; immobile; unmovable
___________________________ 8. serious or grave in appearance, sound, or the like; ceremonious; formal
___________________________ 9. measuring time in relation to the sun.
___________________________ 10. a person's condition as determined by law; place; footing; capacity
___________________________ 11. formal, solemn, and reserved in character; no-nonsense; sober; sedate
___________________________ 12. a fourteen-line poem that usu. rhymes, often in accordance with one or another of certain traditional patterns.
___________________________ 13. (in ancient Egypt)a figure of an imaginary creature having the head of a man or an animal and the body of a lion.(usually cap.) the colossal recumbent stone figure of this kind near the pyramids of Giza.
___________________________ 14. coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency; without effort or premeditation; natural and unconstrained; unplanned; impulsive; instinctive; unmeditated
___________________________ 15. a piece of music for a single performer; solitary; only; unexampled
___________________________ 16. Med. a mental or physical mark that is characteristic of a defect or disease; blot; onus; odium
___________________________ 17. a monarch or other royal ruler; free; separate; autarkic
___________________________ 18. majestic; imposing in magnificence, elegance, etc; ceremonious; conventional
___________________________ 19. to strike or press with crushing force; crush down; squash; squidge
___________________________ 20. a periodic payment, esp. a scholarship or fellowship allowance granted to a student; hire; emolument
___________________________ 21. dirty or foul, as from neglect; soily; grubby; black
___________________________ 22. not genuine, authentic, or valid; false; bastard; illegitimate
___________________________ 23. something that rouses or accelerates action, feeling, or thought; goad; propellant; impetus
___________________________ 24. a plate made by this process.
___________________________ 25. occurring irregularly or in a thinly scattered manner in time or space; spasmodic; fitful