Dave's Choice Words: Exercise

Dave's Choice Words #3

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. Lucullan
  2. Pyrrhic victory
  3. contumacious
  4. lucubration
  5. rube

When served dinner at the Rainbow Room in New York City, Tom Sawyer demonstrated just how much of a he is. He ate his entrée with his dessert fork!

The soldier disobeyed his commanders' orders on several occasions. Finally, the Army gave him a dishonorable discharge for his behavior.

"Yes, we won the war," the general said, "but it was a as over eighty percent of my soldiers perished in battle."

With all his riches and apartments in London, Paris and New York, the multi-millionaire was accustomed to a lifestyle.

Earning a Ph.D. usually requires much .

 

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