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The AWAD Vocabulary Quiz 3 - "Ten Words" 

(AWAD - April 28 - May 4, 1997) This week's wordlist challenged logolepts to differentiate 'tenacious' from 'tenuous', and other ten* words. I have added three new ten* words for this review quiz.

Match up the ten* word in the first column with its closest definition in column two.

___ tenacious A. in a state of repair suitable for lease.
___ tenantable B. sinewy.
___ tendentious C. gloomy; dark.
___ tendinous D. thin; slender; rare.
___ tenebrous E. sensuous; lascivious.
___ tenesmus F. a painful but ineffectual effort to urinate or defecate.
___ tentative G. cohesive; tough; persistent.
___ tentiginous H. biased.
___ tenuis I. an unaspirated voiceless stop
___ tenuous J. by way of experiment or trial.


ANSWERS: tenacious - G; tenantable - A.; tendentious - H.; tendinous - B; tenebrous - C; tenesmus -
F; tentative - J; tentiginous - E; tenuis - I; tenuous - D

 

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