Vocabulary E Spring Midterm

If evidence links someone to wrongdoing, you might say he or she is:

• interred

• absolved

• implicated

A substance that eats away at a surface can be described as being

• corrosive

• ineffective

• harmless

Which of the following words would you use to describe someone’s letters if they fill up many boxes?

• meager

• voluminous

• minimal

Another word for clamorous is:

• soft-spoken

• vociferous

• muted

Decades later, people who abhor injustice helped pass the Civil Liberties Act of 1988.

If people abhor injustice, they:

• defend it

• overlook it

• detest it

Which of the following words would you use to describe a television host who is smooth and sophisticated?

• crude

• somber

• suave

If your interest in a topic has been stifled by a long and boring lecture, it has been:

• stultified

• intensified

• stimulated

I was a bit apprehensive about meeting the scaly green lizard.

Which of the following words could not be used to replace apprehensive?

• unworried

• nervous

• anxious

Iggy looked like a wrinkly, decrepit dinosaur.

Decrepit means:

• rare

• old

• large

If you show apathy, you appear:

• angry

• upset

• hungry