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Vocabulary Building Exercise - 13
1.
Cannon
a) Fundamental law or principle
b) To go to persons to solicit order, pledges,
c) A gun
d) A heavy closely woven cloth of flax used for tents
2.
Alternate
a) An adjective phrase meaning all in one company
b) Offering a choice of two things
c) Occuring by turns (night alternates with day)
d) Completely
3.
Causal
a) Expressing a cause
b) The top of a room
c) Stop
d) The inner roof of a room
4.
Artiste
a) Act of rising; An upward slope
b) Agreement as with a proposal
c) A proffesional singer or dancer
d) Act of attending
5.
Confidant
a) A trusted person with whom personal matters and problems are discussed
b) To fix or establish
c) Wish joy to (an intimate term)
d) Full of confidence
6.
Accuse
a) From one side to the other
b) Say that some body has done wrong
c) Fix on somebody the responsibility for something done (badly o wrongly) or not done
d) Side by side
7.
Seize
a) A narrow room
b) Harmony
c) Take hold of suddenly and evidently
d) Graveyard
8.
Apprise
a) Anticipate with anxiety, fear
b) A person skilled in one of the fine arts
c) To inform
d) Grasp the meaning of
9.
Bridle
a) Register of the divisions of a year
b) A set of leather straps fitted to a horses head and incorporating the bit and the reins
c) A machine for finishing cloth
d) A gun
10.
Ceremonious
a) Stop
b) involving ceremony or consisting of ceremony, excessively polite or formal
c) Yeilding of property or rights to another
d) The sitting of a court, council
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