English IV Vocabulary Unit 3

Choose the letter of the word that best completes the sentence.

Raising the fines for speeding seems to place no ______ on those drivers who continue to race past the

elementary school.

• antipathy

• opprobrium

• constraint

• megalomania

Choose the letter of the word that best completes the sentence.

Our society must find a way to deal with the ______ before he or she inflicts violence on others.

• malcontent

• malcontent

• astronomer

• quagmire

Choose the letter of the word that best completes the sentence.

When Stephen did not see his name on the cast list, he realized that his hopes for landing a role had been __________.

• illusory

• irrelevant

• derogatory

• pithy

Choose the letter of the word that best completes the sentence.

Only a(n) ______ would try to fly off the barn roof using wings made of plastic straws and chicken feathers!

• astronomer

• malcontent

• lunatic

• boor

Choose the letter of the word that best completes the sentence.

The dictator’s ______ knew no limits; soon his illegal seizure of power aroused global criticism.

• opprobrium

• constraint

• megalomania

• predominance

Choose the letter of the word that best completes the sentence.

The meal of pop, doughnuts, brownies, ice cream, and candy left Jeffrey feeling more than a little ______

• surfeited

• disconsolate

• derogatory

• blighted

Circle the letter of the word that best completes the sentence.

The ______ of girls over boys in the advanced mathematics class represented a major change from the

preceding decade.

• quandary

• predominance

• antipathy

• depravity

Circle the letter of the word that best completes the sentence.

“How I long for true excitement,” sighed Rose, “but I fear my life will continue in its dreadfully boring

pattern in this dull, ______ world.”

• fecund

• astral

• sublunary

• urbane

Circle the letter of the word that best completes the sentence.

The committee members are tired of hearing purely ______ remarks that do not offer any positive suggestions.

• territorial

• amoral

• derogatory

• sublunary

Circle the letter of the word that best completes the sentence.

My dog found himself in a ______: should he chase the neighbor’s cat or should he eat the juicy hot dog

that fell off the grill?

• terrace

• quandary

• nonentity

• megalomania