English 4: Vocabulary Lesson 12

Diligent, persistent

• Assiduous

• Polyphonic

• Voluble

• Wizened

To deal with in a superior way

• Condescend

• Rescind

• Revel

• Rhapsodize

The students were ... in their research efforts; they utilized multiple sources and turned in their homework on time.

• Assiduous

• Exhilarated

• Polyphonic

• Wizened

The boss ... to his employees when he told them they were stupid.

• Condescended

• Rescinded

• Reveled

• Rhapsodized

A revelation; sudden knowledge

• Epiphany

• Panacea

• Propensity

• Rhapsody

While sitting in a lecture hall, author Rebecca Skloot had a/an ... for a book idea about the immortal HeLa cells of Henrietta Lacks.

• Epiphany

• Exhilaration

• Physiognomy

• Propensity

Elation, thrill

• Epiphany

• Exhilaration

• Panacea

• Umbrage

Cure-all

• Epiphany

• Exhilation

• Panacea

• Physiognomy

Facial features

• Panacea

• Physiognomy

• Propensity

• Propinquity

His ... was telling whenever he would lie; he crinkled his nose and looked away.

• Panacea

• Physiognomy

• Propinquity

• Umbrage