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KEY:1–j, 2–h, 3–a, 4–f, 5–g, 6–b, 7–c, 8–i, 9–d, 10–e

Can you work with the words? (II)

1. patricide a. mother-killing

2. alma mater b. tending to fixate obsessively on one thing

3. matricide c. wife-killing

4. fratricide d. father-killing

5. uxoricide e. tending to set fires

6. uxorious f. alcoholic

7. monomaniacal g. wife-doting

h. school or college from which one has
8. pyromaniacal
graduated

9. megalomaniacal i. tending to delusions of grandeur

10. dipsomaniacal j. brother-killing