| A | B |
|---|
| prolific | The author, who produced tow books a year, was a ____ writer. |
| pedantic | concern for rules; details |
| soporific | When the teacher turned the lights off, the class found the film very _____. |
| euphonic | The internal rhyme of the poem made it ___ when read aloud. |
| ascetic | Bare walls and plain furniture made Trina's dorm room look ____. |
| esoteric | The ____ article was readable only to those who understood baseball statistics. |
| vitriolic | A well-known columnist wrote a ___ critique of the pop star's new album. |
| banal | With its theme of boy meets girl, the book was ____ and had no depth. |
| prosaic | Hal wrote a very ____ essay, using no literary techniques or poetic styles. |
| podantic | Joy's ____ English professor spent more time on rules than on literature. |
| ascetic | of self-discipline; denial |
| vitriolic | bitter and scathing |
| prosaic | straightforward; dull |
| polemical | of controversy or argument |
| sporific | causing sleep; lethargic |
| prolific | producing abundance |
| esoteric | understood by a chosen few |
| banal | drearily commonplace; trite |
| euphonic | agreeable to the ear |
| polemical | Dr. Toth's new theory proved to be quite ___at the recent science symposium. |
