English 11 Lesson 7 Vocabulary

Which of the following sentences best demonstrates the meaning of the word UPHEAVAL?

• Esperanza seems jumpy today, as though she's expecting bad news.

• The 1910 Revolution brought enormous political and social changes to Mexico.

• It requires effort to bring the north poles of two magnets together.

• Dark clouds appeared before the storm hit.

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Catherine _____ his invitation with a curt refusal.

• undulated

• careened

• correlated

• repulsed

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caused by or having to do with earthquakes; having powerful and widespread effects

• seismic

• frenetic

• kinetic

• recondite

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Pilar began to feel ill from driving on the steep _____ of the country road.

• upheavals

• undulations

• archipelagos

• repulsions

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a body of water containing a large number of islands; a large group of islands

• archipelago

• undulation

• cavalier

• upheaval

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recondite

• showing an offhand or carefree disregard; arrogant

• wildly excited; frantic

• the history of a word

• abstruse; difficult to understand

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During World War II, carpet bombing _____ Dresden and its environs.

• correlated

• pulverized

• careened

• presaged

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Which of the following sentences best demonstrates the meaning of the word CAVALIER?

• The phone rang almost without stopping for four hours this morning.

• The roof had been securely repaired.

• Deborah was dismissed from the firm after much deliberation.

• The manager brushed aside my complaint and kept walking right past me.

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presage

• to foretell; to warn or indicate in advance

• to rush with a swerving motion

• to cause to tip to one side

• to repel; drive back

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The summer cottages are _____ to the beach and less than a mile from the downtown area.

• frenetic

• contiguous

• recondite

• correlated

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