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KEY: 1–lupine, 2–equine, 3–piscine, 4–phonetic, 5–phonetician, 6–impotent, 7–ubiquity or
ubiquitousness, 8–omnipresence, 9–reincarnate, 10–incarnate

CHAPTER REVIEW

A. Do you recognize the words?

1. Utter want:

(a) affluence, (b) opulence, (c) penury
2. Experienced secondhand:
(a) ephemeral, (b) vicarious, (c) evanescent

3. Inoffensive circumlocution:
(a) badinage, (b) persiflage, (c) euphemism
4. Homesick:

(a) nostalgic, (b) bromide, (c) clandestine
5. Meat-eating:

(a) herbivorous, (b) voracious, (c) carnivorous
6. Stingy:
(a) indigent, (b) parsimonious, (c) opulent
7. Extreme financial need:

(a) destitution, (b) affluence, (c) parsimony
8. Great and increasing wealth:

(a) penuriousness, (b) affluence, (c) omnipresence
9. Remaining for a short time:
(a) euphemistic, (b) evanescent, (c) eulogistic
10. Sweet-sounding:

(a) euphonious, (b) cacophonous, (c) euphoric
11. Praise glowingly:

(a) evanesce, (b) eulogize, (c) reincarnate
12. Sense of physical well-being:
(a) euthanasia, (b) euphoria, (c) persiflage

13. Hackneyed expression:
(a) anodyne, (b) badinage, (c) cliché
14. catlike:

(a) leonine, (b) feline, (c) canine
15. Bearlike:
(a) vulpine, (b) ursine, (c) porcine