A Modest Proposal Vocabulary
Quiz by Danielle Martinez Alvarez
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- Q1
food and drink regarded as a source of strength; nourishment.:
Sustenance
30s - Q2
a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.
Deplorable
Melancholy
Grievance
Liable
30s - Q3
deserving strong condemnation.
Deplorable
30s - Q4
remarkably or impressively great in extent, size, or degree.
Prodigious
30s - Q5
a real or imagined wrong or other cause for complaint or protest, especially unfair treatment.
Grievance
30s - Q6
the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
Satire
30s - Q7
responsible by law; legally answerable
Liable
30s - Q8
persistent harassment of someone for or to do something
sustenance
Rainment
Glutted
Importuning
30s - Q9
Clothing
Rainment
30s - Q10
something pledged as security for repayment of a loan, to be forfeited in the event of a default
Collateral
15s - Q11
the action of mathematical calculation
Computation
30s - Q12
supply or fill to excess.:
Glutted
15s - Q13
the first principles of (a subject).:
Rudiments
30s - Q14
money or food given to poor people.
Collateral
Liable
Alms
30s