Vocabulary Quiz

1.   arrogate (v.):
      To look into.
      To cast off, as hair, feathers, etc.
      To walk for amusement or exercise.
      To walk about.
      To take, demand, or claim, especially presumptuously or without reasons orgrounds.
      To endow or furnish with requisite ability, character, knowledge, skill, orpossessions.

2.   rendition (n.):
      The common people.
      Wrath.
      Interpretation.
      Thorough dislike.
      The coming or arrival, as of any important change, event, state, or personage.
      A figure with six angles.

3.   crusade (n.):
      The act of sending through or across.
      The demanding for the use of money as a loan, a rate of interest beyond what isallowed by law.
      A place where anything is kept in safety.
      One who navigates the air, a balloonist.
      Any concerted movement, vigorously prosecuted, in behalf of an idea orprinciple.
      A number of states or persons in compact or league with each other, as formutual aid.

4.   chagrin (n.):
      Spiritual or social fellowship or solidarity.
      The sharp striking of one body against another.
      Keen vexation, annoyance, or mortification, as at one's failures or errors.
      One who works in a coal-mine.
      Showing increase.
      The color of the sky. 

5.   icon (n.):
      The place in which a consul transacts official business.
      The dignity, condition, office, or term of office of an alderman.
      An image or likeness.
      A cosmopolitan character.
      One who makes or sells cloth or clothing.
      One thousand watts.

6  henpeck (v.):
      To worry or harass by ill temper and petty annoyances.
      To contend angrily or zealously in words.
      To approve authoritatively.
      To stretch out or expand in every direction.
      To cause spasms in.
      To make better or improve, as in quality or social or physical condition.