Pop Quiz: Let’s Make Groups
Pop Quiz!
The following six words can be grouped by meaning into two categories.
Mentally place them into two synonym groups, then click “more.”
AUGMENT
DISSEMBLE
DISSIMULATE
AGGRANDIZE
DISINGENUOUS
COMPOUND
Augment, aggrandize, and compound all have to do with making things bigger (think “compound interest”).
Dissemble, dissimulate, and disingenuous all have to do with being deceptive.
Watch out for dissemble — don’t accidentally read it as “disassemble”! One is lying, the other is taking stuff apart.