Vocab Practice Week 4

Which of the following words is the opposite of the word exasperation?

• anger
• calm
• annoyance
• fury

Which word has the same meaning as the word exemplary?

• bad
• poor
• unworthy
• admirable

What is the meaning of the word extenuating?

• serving to make a fault
• hoping for the best
• to treat with contempt
• to try to equal or excel

Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary word: When she came inside, her cheeks were ___________.

• frugal
• florid
• hedonist
• haughty

Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary word: Kami was thrilled that a series of __________ events helped advance her career.

• exemplary
• florid
• impute
• fortuitous

Which word is an antonym for the word frugal?

• spendthrift
• careful
• prudent
• wary

The word hackneyed most nearly means?

• to injure the credit or reputation of another
• to deprive of force or strength
• to raise to a higher degree
• made commonplace or trite

Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary word: In the movie Pretty Woman, Julia Roberts learned that the women in the shop are __________ because she is not dressed properly.

• florid
• haughty
• hypothesis
• hedonist

Which word has the same meaning as the word hedonist?

• puritan
• ascetic
• glutton
• strict

What is the meaning of the word hypothesis?

• to injure the credit or reputation of
• the psychological indentification with or vicarious experiencing of the feelings
• a proposition assumed as a premise in an argument.
• vanishing, fading away