VOCAB QUIZ: "MICHAEL JORDAN: A PROFILE IN FAILURE"

to examine carefully or call out mistakes and errors

• Critique 

• Analogy 

• Varstiy 

• Humiliation 

 a comparison between two things

• Analogy 

• Critique 

• Prevalent 

• Formidable 

the first-string team in a particular sport at a particular school

• Varstiy 

• Revitalize 

• Formidable 

• Exhilarating 

a feeling of great embarrassment when one looks weak or silly

• Humiliation

• Critique 

• Impediment 

• Revitalize 

a physical condition that makes speaking difficult

• Impediment 

• Elite 

• Prevalent 

• Synonymous 

common for a certain time, place, or group of people

• Prevalent

• Varstiy 

• Elite 

• Skyrocket 

belonging to a group with power due to money, knowledge, or special skills

• Elite

• Lackluster 

• Acknowledge 

• Revitalize 

Match the following

• lacking greatness, unimpressive; average and dull

• Skyrocket 

• very powerful, impressive, or even frightening

• Formidable 

• to increase very quickly; to take off

• Lackluster 

Reorder the following

• Synonymous means

• having the same

• or nearly the same

• meaning

• as another word.

to put new energy or strength into something

• Revitalize 

• Acknowledge 

• Exhilarating 

• Analogy