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KEY: 1–gregarious, 2–nescient, 3–unconscionability or unconscionableness, 4–prescient, 5–
congregation, 6–aggregate or aggregation, 7–segregate, 8–glibness, 9–omniscient, 10–
congregate

CHAPTER REVIEW

A. Do you recognize the words?

1. Highly skilled:
(a) consummate, (b) inveterate, (c) notorious
2. Beyond reform:

(a) inveterate, (b) incorrigible, (c) glib
3. Dating from birth:
(a) inveterate, (b) congenital, (c) psychopathic

4. Outstandingly bad:
(a) egregious, (b) unconscionable, (c) chronic
5. Science of heredity:

(a) pathology, (b) genetics, (c) orthopedics
6. Out of time:
(a) incongruous, (b) anachronous, (c) synchronous

7. Study of disease:
(a) pathology, (b) telepathy, (c) antipathy
8. Fond of company, friends, group activities, etc.:

(a) apathetic, (b) gregarious, (c) chronological
9. Indifferent:
(a) antipathetic, (b) pathetic, (c) apathetic

10. Long accustomed in habit:
(a) incorrigible, (b) notorious, (c) inveterate
11. Study of family ancestry:

(a) genealogy, (b) genetics, (c) genesis
12. To complete, finish, top off:
(a) synchronize, (b) consummate, (c) empathize

13. Accurate timepiece:
(a) anachronism, (b) chronology, (c) chronometer
14. Identification with the feelings of another:

(a) sympathy, (b) apathy, (c) empathy
15. Thought transference; extrasensory perception: