Vocabulary Check

utensil - paltry - snug - pulp - lesion 

1. Never rest a _____ half on a plate and half on the table.
2. These are certainly happy being; but others also are objects of envy, who dignify their _____ employments, and sometimes even their passions, with pompous titles, representing them to mankind as gigantic achievements performed for their welfare and glory.
3. Here,too, I have discovered such a _____, comfortable place, which possesses peculiar charms for me.
4. This specialist is concerned with the diagnosis and cause of disease affecting the _____ or nerve of the tooth, or the tissues on tooth.
5. In most cases the oral pathologist does not see you, but your dentist would send them a biopsy or any questionable tissue or _____.