Dave's Choice Words: Exercise

Dave's Choice Words #44

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. bardolater
  2. contagion
  3. putative
  4. revenant
  5. sinecure

After being a P.O.W. for 19 years, the Private Griffin returned to his Connecticut hometown.

Lee Harvey Oswald is the assassin of President Kennedy. Some, however, believe Oswald was not involved in the killing.

Do not hire "bad apples." A bad apple is a : capable of destroying the morale of the entire company.

Max is quite a . He dresses in Elizabethan garb and incessantly utters monologues from Hamlet.

The publisher named Robert editor-at-large, but the position is a . Robert never participates in editorial meetings and a ghostwriter pens his column.

 

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