Honors 11 Vocab List 1

The camp served as a small ___________ or outpost, a bit of domestic comfort surrounded by wild jungle.

The Philippines has overtaken Indonesia as the coronavirus hot spot in Southeast Asia — the country has more than 122,000 confirmed cases. Critics say it has no coherent pandemic response plan.

In this context, the word COHERENT means:

• having a constant phase relationship

• logical and consistent

• unable to speak intelligibly

• pen to more than one interpretation

Once you see both the old woman and the young one in this image, you realize it is:

• ambidextrous

• ambivalent

• ambitionless

• ambiguous

Which of the following situations fit the definition of the word ADHERE?

• You tell your friend they should really try coming to your youth group because it's way better than their youth group.

• You accidentally spill soda in a book, and now the pages are sticky and won't open.

• You try to use a glue stick, but it's all dried up and won't work.

• You're tempted to do something against your beliefs, but instead you maintain your moral code.

If you get accidentally ingest a poison, you need to get the:

• antidote

• anecdote

• analgesic

• anteater

The people of the town were so divided that it seemed there could be no compromise or solution to the debate. They were at an unsolvable ___________

A new word...has entered our lexicon: "doomscrolling."

The recent onslaught of dystopian stories related to the coronavirus pandemic, combined with stay-at-home orders, have enabled our penchant for binging on bad news. But the habit is eroding our mental health, experts say. In this context the word PENCHANT means:

• begin to grow or increase rapidly; flourish

• hostility or ill feeling

• a situation in which no progress is possible

• a strong or habitual liking for something or tendency to do something

A mural attributed to the British street artist Banksy was stolen this weekend from the Bataclan concert hall in Paris. The painting, of a ghostly veiled figure with a downcast gaze, is believed to be a memorial to the 90 people who died there in a 2015 terrorist attack. In this context, the word ATTRIBUTE means:

• cite (a book or other artistic work) as being issued or performed in someone's honor

• a quality or feature regarded as an inherent part of something

• regard something as being caused by someone or something

• to blame someone or something for producing a certain effect

Someone who ignores you when you wave and barely speaks to you when you talk to them seems rather:

• aloof

• animus

• arcane

• antagonize

Which of the following sentence makes correct use of the word BEFALL?

• I could not believe that an asteroid had befallen on my house.

• The wizard prophesied that terrible things would befall the kingdom in the coming year.

• This year a plague has befallen the land, and many are sick and sore.

• Of all the things to befall me, I never dreamed true love would be one of them.