Word Test 425

Improve Your Vocabulary

There is nothing more important in life than being able to master the power of communication. A good vocabulary is a like driving a car with rocket fuel instead of leaded gasoline. Words can power your career into high gear and increase your understanding of others.

From 2002-2014 we posted our Word of the Day and subsequently our Weekend Word Tests for 650 Consecutive Weeks or 12 ½ years, to help our viewers improve and expand their vocabulary. If you are serious about improving your vocabulary, our Word Test Library will challenge you to learn words you may never have known existed.

For the Week ending 04/16/10

Directions: Choose the word that matches with the definition and appropriately fits into the blank space in the sentence.

to make a definite or systematic statement of; announce, proclaim; articulation; correctly pronounce

One who is intoxicated may be difficult to understand if he doesn't _______ clearly.

relating to a nonstandard language or dialect of a place, region, or country; the mode of expression of a group or class

Protestantism was a driving force for the bible to be translated from Latin into the _______ language.

the art of speaking in public eloquently or effectively

Cicero was good at _______, the art of swaying an audience by eloquent speech.

marked by or using an excess of words

_______ writing, when ornate and flowery is known as purple prose.

a dialect other than the standard; the characteristic special language of an occupational or social group: jargon

In France, _______ has been used to describe non-Parisian French.

We would like to thank Dr. Andrew Jamieson, MD, of Vancouver, Washington for his articulate contribution of words he supplied for the many years he served as our "eHappyLife Word Specialist."