Unit 2 List A - Eng 9

Which of the follwoing is the OPPOSITE of distinguished, or above average?

• confused

• mediocre

• outstanding

If you are visiting a desert for the first time, the landscape might seem:

• alien

• familliar

• lush, or full of life

The OPPOSITE of homely, or unattractive is:

• scruffy

• comely

• dreadful

• uncomfortable

When my group first chose the American justice system as the topic of our presentation, all of us had a serious attitude. As we began brainstorming, however, it became increasingly clear that television courtroom dramas were acting as fodder for just about every situation that we proposed.

Fodder is used to refer to:

• the name of a television show

• a source of ideas

• a set of rules

Attractive

• Alien

• Dissolute

• Comely

• Terse

Which word means to strengthen?

• jeer

• fortify

• sully

• terse

Ranchers might need this for their farm animals.

• fodder

• fortify

• sully

• mediocre

If you do this in my class, you are breaking my courtesy rule...

• mediocre

• fodder

• erratic

• jeer

Which word means average or ordinary?

• mediocre

• comely

• illegible

• terse

To put under complete control

• Dissolute

• Subjugate

• Adjourn

• Expulsion