Honors Midterm Review 2023

Infuriated, irate, rankled (synonym)

• indignant
• odious
• implacable
• indictment

Which of the following is most likely to be contrite?

• a remark about the weather
• an angle of a triangle
• a person confessing guilt
• a pacifist rallying for peace

Guileless is to ingenuous as ______ is to laconic.

• mitigating
• unscrupulous
• taciturn
• contrite

Amenable is to _______ as furtive is to open.

• mitigating
• implacable
• exacerbate
• delighted

And what made it even more _____ was the personality of the prisoner, an inhuman monster wholly without a moral sense.

• contrite
• inexorable
• execration
• odious

Not once in the course of these proceedings did this man show the least ______ or remorse.

• contrition
• taciturn
• indignation
• indictment

Which of the following is most likely to make someone feel indignant?

• being ignored by a salesperson who helps everyone else
• wearing an elegant outfit
• working hard to attain a raise in salary
• receiving a thoughtful compliment from a friend

Meursault faced _______ after he killed the Arab on the beach and then sat through his trial as his lawyer tried to argue his case.

• mitigation
• prevarication
• execration
• indictment

When would you most likely utter an execration?

• when someone holds the door open for you
• when you just finish work for the day
• when someone cuts you off on the road
• when you need help finding an item in a store

Meursault hoped he would be greeted by "howls of _______" on the day of his execution instead of blessings and prayers.

• prevarication
• execration
• mitigation
• benediction