The Last Lecture

The Last Lecture

Vocabulary

Multiple Choice

Which two terms are most alike in their meaning and use?

• earnest ; mundane

• fortitude ; chutzpah

• exasperating ; incessantly

Multiple Choice

Which term means "endlessly, continuously, repeatedly and without seeming to stop"?

• incessantly

• mundane

• viscerally

Multiple Select

Which of the following terms are nouns?

• diversion

• gravitas

• nuanced

• compulsion

Multiple Choice

Complete the sentence :

Working in groups can be both a wonderful and a trying experience. One must be prepared to sometimes get their own way and sometimes exercise ... to a group member with different ideas.

• diversion

• compulsion

• deference

Multiple Select

Which of the following are correct inflected forms:

• earnestation

• nuances

• incessantly

• mundaner

• fortitudely

Multiple Choice

Complete the sentence:

Permanently closing the doors of the family business hurt the owner so .... because she felt she was letting down the ancestors who had entrusted the store to her.

• earnest

• incessantly

• viscerally

• compulsion

Multiple Choice

"There is a degree of ... attached to the senior portfolio interview, so please don't take it casually," urged Mrs. Panek.

• nuanced

• compulsion

• gravitas

• flabbergasted

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a verb?

• recalibrate

• nuanced

• flabbergasted

Multiple Choice

Complete the sentence:

The science team had to ... the distance between dominos or the maze of black and white objections would never fully topple from beginning to end.

• diversion

• deference

• nuance

• recalibrate

Multiple Choice

Which term means "complex due to shades and gradients of meaning; having varying shades; tinged with several sub-meanings"

• earnest

• flabbergasted

• nuanced

• incessantly

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a correctly inflected form for "compulsion"?

• compulsing

• compulsation

• compel

• compeller

Multiple Choice

Which term means "resulting from a different condition; incidental, emergency, alternate"?

• contingency

• nuanced

• presumptuous

Multiple Choice

Which term means "relenting to the decision, opinion, will of another"?

• diversion

• deference

• presumptuous

• chutzpah

Multiple Choice

Which term means "banal, humdrum, , ordinary, unimaginative (and thus, often, boring or dull)"?

• flabbergasted

• mundane

• exasperating

• none of the above

Multiple Choice

Antonyms include "apathy, weakness, helplessness."

• viscerally

• gravitas

• fortitude

• deference

Multiple Choice

The origin of this term is Yiddish, and it means "boldness, guts, shameless audacity."

• chutzpah

• incessantly

• contingency

• compulsion