Webster Essential Vocabulary

Quick Review #114.

Match the word from column 2 with the word from column 1 that means most
nearly the same thing.

314 Essential Vocabulary

1. obsolete


2. occult


3. odious


4. odium


5. oligarchy


6. opaque


7. opprobrium


8. orb


9. overt


10. parody


11. parse


12. pastoral


13. patron

a. caricature

b. obscure

c. manifest

d. sphere

e. rural

f. esoteric

g. analyze

h. sponsor

i. aristocracy

j. hateful

k. infamy

l. hatred

m. passé

peccadillo(PEK uh DIL oh) n. a minor or slight sin; a small fault or misdeed

• Mark’s roving eye was a peccadillothat Noreen did not care to put up with,
  so she dumped him.


• Treating as a peccadillo a child’s taking a candy bar from a store without
  paying is as good as encouraging the child to go on to larger crimes.
  pedantry(PED in tree) n. 1. petty insistence on exact adherence to minor arbi-
  trary points of learning; 2. ostentatious demonstrations of knowledge


• Mrs. Higgins, true to her pedantry,insists that each of her students learn
  Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address” word for word.


• Bert, in his pedantry,never missed an opportunity to use a five-syllable
  word when a two-syllable one would have done the job.
  pedestrian(pi DES tree in) adj. 1. walking; done on foot; 2. of or for a walker;

3. lacking interest; ordinary; dull —n.a walker

• Special Walk/Don’t Walk signs are growing more popular for the benefit of
  pedestriancitizens.


• The UN ambassador’s speech was very pedestrianand lulled half its listeners
  into a daze.


• City drivers need to keep an eye out for pedestrianscrossing the street.
  [-ly adv.] [Syn. ordinary]