Dave's Choice Words: Exercise

Dave's Choice Words #62

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. argil
  2. clement
  3. corn-pone
  4. perquisite
  5. swill

The potter unevenly placed her on the wheel; she was soon covered in clay.

Nitika needed the entire day to make . She was cooking for the entire tribe.

"Don't your soup," Gertrude instructed her nephew. "You are a member of the aristocracy. Learn how to eat like an aristocrat."

"Let's hope you get a judge," the divorce attorney grimly told his client. "Otherwise, your wife may get ninety-five percent of everything you've got."

As a for having secured Hussein's palace, the soldiers bathed in Saddam's shower.

 

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