Dave's Choice Words: Exercise

Dave's Choice Words #4

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. calumnies
  2. declivity
  3. miasma
  4. roistered
  5. scrutable

Prior to the ban on smoking in New York City bars, bartenders had to contend with the nightly of cigarette smoke.

Aboard their sleds, the children enjoyed the combination of the recent snowfall and the of the hill.

Intoxicated from a keg party at the frat house, the noisy college students through the town, resulting in two arrests.

The biographer stood by the accuracy of her book about the president, but the commander in chief accused her of various and sued her for slander.

Many students found the poet's message difficult to comprehend, but I found it quite .

 

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