11th Grade Vocabulary Final Exam Units 1-15

Look! Brahmins and chumars, bankers and tinkers, barbers and bunnias, pilgrims—

and potters—all the world going and coming. It is to me as a river from which I am

withdrawn like a log after a flood. And truly the Grand Trunk Road is the paragon of

highways. It runs straight, bearing without crowding India’s traffic for fifteen hundred

miles—such a river of life as nowhere else exists in the world.

Which word is closest in meaning to

paragon as it is used?

• busiest

• greatest

• model

• first

Kim (1901), by the prolific Rudyard Kipling (1865– 1936), is the definitive portrait of colonial India. It is a great road novel—and the road it travels is the highway across northern India, known to British colonists as “The Great Trunk Road.”

What is the meaning of prolific as

it is used?

• productive

• secretive

• brilliant

• reclusive

Kim (1901), by the prolific Rudyard Kipling (1865– 1936), is the definitive portrait of colonial India. It is a great road novel—and the road it travels is the highway across northern India, known to British colonists as “The Great Trunk Road.”

Which word means the same as

definitive?

• last

• best

• ultimate

• accurate

Previously, the road had been known as the Shah Rah-e-Azam— “The Great Highway”—since the imperious Sher Shah Suri (1486– 1545), the “Lion King” and founder of the northern Indian Sur empire, paved it to link the provinces of his dominion.

Which word means the same as

imperious?

• regal

• modest

• unelected

• magisterial

Three millennia before Ashoka, the same road led traders from the cities of the Indus Valley through the Khyber Pass, to the Silk Road and into the world beyond. The name by which they knew it, however, is lost.

What does millennia most likely

mean as it is used?

• millions of years

• one thousand years

• ages

• thousands of years

to reject; to deny the validity of

• repudiate

• profligate

• ingratiate

• connoisseur

an expert; one who is well qualified to pass

critical judgments

• repudiate

• profligate

• ingratiate

• connoisseur

given over to dissipation; a person given

to wild spending

• repudiate

• profligate

• ingratiate

• connoisseur

to make oneself agreeable and thus

gain acceptance

• repudiate

• profligate

• ingratiate

• connoisseur

to accumulate over time; to happen as

a natural result

• insurgent

• accrue

• querulous

• umbrage