Question
THE CACTUS
VOCABULARY
conceit - n. pride, self-importance
Vanity and conct? These were the joints in his ermor.
exultation - n. triumph, celebration, happiness
As she had slowly moved up the aisle toward the sitar he had felt
an unworthy, sullen exultation that had served to support him.
Impld - adj. clear, understandable,
For, when he saw that swift. limeld. upword look that she gave
the man when he took her hand, he knew himself to be forgotten.
fatuous - adj. foolish, pointless
As Trysdale grimly wrenched sport the seem of his last glove, the
crowing instance of his fatuous and tardily mourned egoism
Incontinent - adj. lacking self restraint, uncontrolled
Cerruthers, who was one of his incontinent admirers, was the
very man to have magnified this exhibition of doubtful erudition.
crudition - n. knowledge, scholarship
Corruthers. who was one of his incontinent odmirers, wos the
very man to hove magnified this exhibition of doubtful eruition.
meuitation - n. assertion, suggestion
He allowed the imratatica to pass without denial. Without
protest he o owed her to twine about his brow thi sourious bay
of Spanish scholarship.
querulousty - adv. complainingly, cantankerously
The voice of the other man in the room, ownculowny lntruding
upon his thoughts, roused him
Which sentence uses the
underlined vocabulary word
incorrectly?
A. He querulously announced he wasn't
attending the concert since he wasn't given
a free ticket.
B. She interrupted hotly, querulously
asserting that no one understood her.
C. There was an air of excitement in the car,
as we querulously joined in our favorite
song
Answer
A. He querulously announced he wasn't attending the concert since he wasn't given a free ticket.