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What does it mean to lambaste someone?
What does it mean to lambaste someone?
- To ignore or dismiss them
- To attack or criticize them harshly (correct)
- To praise or compliment them
- To forgive or excuse them
What is a vicarious experience?
What is a vicarious experience?
- An experience that is imagined or sympathized with (correct)
- An experience that is avoided or denied
- An experience that is shared with others
- A direct and personal experience
What does it mean to discomfit someone?
What does it mean to discomfit someone?
- To make them feel more confident
- To make them feel more comfortable
- To challenge them to achieve more
- To put them into a state of perplexity and embarrassment (correct)
What is the purpose of a forfend?
What is the purpose of a forfend?
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What is an abattoir?
What is an abattoir?
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What is an abalone?
What is an abalone?
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What is a characteristic of an abalone's shell?
What is a characteristic of an abalone's shell?
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Study Notes
Vocabulary Building
- Lambaste: attack verbally or criticize harshly, e.g. a coach criticizing players for a bad game.
- Vicarious: experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in another's experience, e.g. feeling a thrill when watching someone else score a goal.
- Discomfit: put into a state of perplexity and embarrassment, e.g. an unexpected question causing a speaker to pause awkwardly.
- Forfend: ward off, prevent, or protect, e.g. building castle walls to protect inhabitants from invaders.
- Abattoir: a place where animals are slaughtered for food, e.g. a local slaughterhouse processing hundreds of cattle daily.
- Abalone: a type of edible marine gastropod mollusk with a flattened shell and apertures along its outer edge, e.g. enjoying a meal of grilled abalone at a seaside restaurant.
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Test your knowledge of three advanced vocabulary words: lambaste, vicarious, and discomfit. Learn their definitions and usage in context.
