20/21 English IV Vocab List 4 Review

Which word means "the quality of dealing with ideas rather than events"?

• Abstraction

• Accumulate

• Avid

• Ancestral

Which word means "horrifyingly wicked"?

• Bulbous

• Atrocious

• Clamor

• Disposition

Which word means "a state or period of uncontrolled excitement or wild behavior"?

• Fatuitous

• Felicity

• Frenzy

• Florid

Which word means "lack of respect; rudeness"?

• Interminable

• Insuperable

• Monomaniac

• Impertinence

Which word means "having or expressing a lively, cheerful, and self-confident manner"?

• Jaunty

• Lucid

• Merriment

• Revolt

Which of the following words would be good synonyms for tyrannous? There can be more than one answer.

• Horrible

• Oppressive

• Easy

• Light

Which of the following would be good synonyms for thwart? There can be more than one right answer.

• Assist

• Foil

• Frustrate

• Facilitate

The hot weather __________ the plants.

Which word means "to make twisting or turning movements in a way that suggests pain or struggle"?

• Writhe

• Wilt

• Tyrannous

• Revolt

They broke free of the house into the dark night on a side of the house far from the light and __________ of the party.