Dave's Choice Words: Exercise

Dave's Choice Words #14

Instructions:

  • Find the best fit for the five words below and enter their numbers in the boxes. When finished, click the "SUBMIT MY ANSWERS" button to see how well you did.
  • Need help with a word? Use the Merriam-Webster Dictionary at the bottom of the page. The definition should open in a new window. Close the window to return to Dave's Choice Words.
  • Send comments and corrections to Dave Fisco.
  1. audial
  2. coffer
  3. presaged
  4. risible
  5. talisman

The mystic brandished his at the possessed child and ordered all demons to be gone.

The soothsayer that tragedy would soon strike the businessman. Within three days, the entrepreneur died in a plane crash.

"Did I hear you whisper behind my back, or am I having hallucinations?" the teacher queried her student.

Carrying a , the widow entered her attorney's office. "In this box is my husband's last will," she said.

A clown made the children chortle.

 

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