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Question 1

laceration

Answer 1

(n.) a cut, tear (Because he fell off his bike into a rosebush, the paperboy’s skin was covered with lacerations.)

Question 2

laconic

Answer 2

(adj.) terse in speech or writing (The author’s laconic style has won him many followers who dislike wordiness.)

Question 3

languid

Answer 3

(adj.) sluggish from fatigue or weakness (In the summer months, the great heat makes people languid and lazy.)

Question 4

larceny

Answer 4

(n.) obtaining another’s property by theft or trickery (When my car was not where I had left it, I realized that I was a victim of larceny.)

Question 5

largess

Answer 5

(n.) the generous giving of lavish gifts (My boss demonstrated great largess by giving me a new car.)

Question 6

latent

Answer 6

(adj.) hidden, but capable of being exposed (Sigmund’s dream represented his latent paranoid obsession with other people’s shoes.)

Question 7

laudatory

Answer 7

(adj.) expressing admiration or praise (Such laudatory comments are unusual from someone who is usually so reserved in his opinions.)

Question 8

legerdemain

Answer 8

(n.) deception, slight-of-hand (Smuggling the French plants through customs by claiming that they were fake was a remarkable bit of legerdemain.)

Question 9

lethargic

Answer 9

(adj.) in a state of sluggishness or apathy (When Jean Claude explained to his boss that he was lethargic and didn’t feel like working that day, the boss fired him.)

Question 10

libertarian

Answer 10

(adj.) advocating principles of liberty and free will (The dissatisfied subjects overthrew the monarch and replaced him with a libertarian ruler who respected
their democratic principles.)

Question 11

licentious

Answer 11

(adj.) displaying a lack of moral or legal restraints (Marilee has always been fascinated by the licentious private lives of politicians.)

Question 12

limpid

Answer 12

(adj.) clear, transparent (Mr. Johnson’s limpid writing style greatly pleased readers who disliked complicated novels.)

Question 13

linchpin

Answer 13

(n.) something that holds separate parts together (The linchpin in the prosecution’s case was the hair from the defendant’s head, which was found at the
scene of the crime.)

Question 14

lithe

Answer 14

(adj.) graceful, flexible, supple (Although the dancers were all outstanding, Jae Sun’s control of her lithe body was particularly impressive.)

Question 15

litigant

Answer 15

(n.) someone engaged in a lawsuit (When the litigants began screaming at each other, Judge Koch ordered them to be silent.)

Question 16

lucid

Answer 16

(adj.) clear, easily understandable (Because Guenevere’s essay was so lucid, I only had to read it once to understand her reasoning.)

Question 17

lurid

Answer 17

(adj.) ghastly, sensational (Gideon’s story, in which he described a character torturing his sister’s dolls, was judged too lurid to be printed in the school’s literary
magazine.)