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To arrange by order of rank is an example of a...
a) anarchy
b) hierarchy
c) military requirement
d) equation

When TV preachers are caught committing the very sins that they rail against, you could say that they are...
a) pompous
b) iconoclasts
c) well paid
d) hypocritical

A caustic comment is...
a) funny
b) bitter and sarcastic
c) gently corrective
d) against the law

A placid atmosphere is...
a) calm
b) chaotic
c) turbulent
d) lacking air, making it impossible to breathe

When a woman goes into a church, kneels and prays, she is making an act of...
a) iconoclasm
b) blasphemy
c) hierarchy
d) piety

If you make something happen more quickly, you could be called a ….
a) collaborator
b) catalyst
c) instigator
d) iconoclast

A pompous person is someone who is...
a) overweight
b) underfed
c) full of wrong-headed ideas
d) over-inflated with a sense of their dignity and greatness

Byzantine Emperor Leo III was opposed to using religious images and ordered them destroyed. This meant that the emperor was an...
a) stoic
b) iconoclast
c) blasphemer
d) heretic

If a room is filled with people who all dress the same, think the same and look the same, these people could be called...
a) heterogenous
b) heterodox
c) homogeneous
d) homo sapiens

If you capitulate to someone else's demands, this means that you...
a) did not want to, but have decided to agree to comply with their demands
b) plan to resist their demands
c) wish to discuss their commands
d) did not want to, but are going to report the demands to the appropriate regulatory agency

PREVIOUS CHAPTER REVIEW WORD: This word means to relentlessly complain or nag
a) exacerbate
b) carp
c) sequester
d) assimilate

PREVIOUS CHAPTER REVIEW WORD: A sleep-like condition when everything slows down is...
a) cavernous
b) bedraggled
c) effervescent
d) dormant

PREVIOUS CHAPTER REVIEW WORD: This word means foggy, unclear, dark or gloomy
a) bravado
b) murky
c) ghastly
d) morbid

PREVIOUS CHAPTER REVIEW WORD: This word means dry or a climate with little rainfall
a) arid
b) serene
c) sullen
d) emaciated

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