Test Your Vocabulary – Quiz #12

Dispassionate means unemotional.

The dispassionate queen did not care about her starving people.

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Commodious means spacious.

I finally found an inexpensive hotel with rooms that are commodious.

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Esteem means respect.

He treated all his colleagues with the same level of esteem.

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Liberate means free.

By seeking shelter in nearby countries, the refugees decided to liberate themselves from their oppression.

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Pacify means to appease.

Because Jenny wanted to pacify her parents, she surprised them with breakfast in bed.

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Subsided means decrease.

On Christmas day, fighting between the two Christian countries subsided.

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Precipitous means thoughtless.

Taylor made the precipitous mistake of agreeing to babysit before she checked her schedule.

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Knell means sign.

Everyone took the company president’s resignation as the company’s knell of bankruptcy.

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Menace means threat.

In the summer, ants can be a real menace in the kitchen.

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Cabal is a union.

As a cabal, the women were able to apply enough pressure to gain voting rights.

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