Grade 10 Weekly Quiz

(adjective) stern, unyielding, gloomy, ill-humored

SYN: harsh, bleak, forbidding, saturnine

ANT: cheery, inviting, genial

• dour

• gibe

• ambidextrous

• bereft

(verb) to utter taunting words;

(noun) an expression of scorn

SYN: ridicule, mock, deride, jeer

ANT: compliment, praise

• gibe

• gape

• fortitude

• guise

(verb) to corrupt, make worse by the addition of something of lesser value

SYN: contaminate, pollute, sully

ANT: purify, purge, expurgate

• deploy

• augment

• adulterate

• gape

(verb) to position or arrange, to utilize, to form up

SYN: station, organized

• augment

• deploy

• adulterate

• gape

(noun) an external appearance, cover, mask

SYN: costume, semblance, pretense

• gibe

• fortitude

• gape

• guise

(verb) to make larger, increase

SYN: enlarge, supplement, amplify

ANT: decrease, diminish

• augment

• adulterate

• gape

• deploy

(adjective) deprived of, made unhappy through a loss

SYN: bereaved

ANT: replete, well provided

• dour

• augment

• bereft

• ambidextrous

(verb) to stare with open mouth, to open mouth wide, to open wide

SYN: gawk, ogle

• adulterate

• augment

• deploy

• gape

(adjective) able to use both hands equally well, very skillful, deceitful, hypocritical

SYN: versatile, facile

ANT: clumsy, all thumbs, maladroit

• bereft

• dour

• ambidextrous

• adulterate

(noun) courage in facing difficulties

SYN: resolve, steadfastness, mettle

ANT: fearfulness, timidity

• guise

• adulterate

• fortitude

• gibe