Dave's Choice Words: Exercise

Dave's Choice Words #43

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. dyspepsia
  2. dyspnea
  3. extirpated
  4. petulant
  5. toadied

I don't like her cooking; it gives me .

The patient has as a result of her pneumonia.

The explosion of the nuclear bomb the city.

The store clerk called me an irritable, rude old lady. I told her, "I agree! When you get to be my age, you will be just like me!"

Dennis likes to project the image of a successful scholar, but he's just a sycophant. He his way into a professorship by flattering every dean in the college until they promoted him.

 

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