Monday, March 30, 2009

VOCABULARY

VOCABULARY
audacious, diligent, prolific, bona fide, incognito, delirious, subtle, deduce, diffident

  1. His use of a fake beard and moustache was a pathetic attempt to be ____________.
  2. Winning the lottery made him ___________(ly) happy.
  3. He is a rather _________ liar; he tells so many lies, you can never tell which of his stories is true.
  4. His joke was very __________; it took me a while to get it.
  5. There was only a ________ difference between the two $100 bills...
  6. ...so the bank clerk had to examine them very carefully to tell which was the ______ one.
  7. He practiced the skate trick _________(ly) until he got it right.
  8. Tom is a very bold, __________ boy, who is scared of very little.
  9. "Now, now, don't be ___________; speak up!"
  10. obvious : subtle :: bogus : ___________

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