The AWAD Vocabulary Quiz 7
Eponymous Origins I
(AWAD, June 16 - 22, 1997) Eponyms-o'-the-Week.
Match the word with its best definition below:
| ___ samson |
1. a very wise man. |
| ___ solomon |
2. one who proffers some illusory advantage or
benefit. |
| ___ vandal |
3. one who willfully destroys or defaces any
work of art or literature. |
| ___ hegira |
4. mistress; a sweetheart. |
| ___ barmecide |
5. an impostor in argument; a captious or
fallacious reasoner. |
| ___ dulcinea |
6. a man of extraordinary physical strength. |
| ___ sophist |
7. any flight or exodus
regarded as like that of Mohammed. |
Answers below:
SAMSON: a man of extraordinary physical strength.
VANDAL: one who willfully destroys or defaces any work
of art or literature.
SOLOMON: a very wise man
HEGIRA: any flight or exodus regarded as like that of Mohammed.
BARMECIDE: one who proffers some illusory advantage or benefit.
DULCINEA: mistress; a sweetheart.
SOPHIST: an impostor in argument; a captious or fallacious reasoner.
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