Wordly Wise 12 Vocabulary Lesson 2

(Antonym) Ross claimed she didn't mean to cast aspersions when she described Russ's music as tedious (long/tiresome) and predictable.

• Apothegms

• Impressions

• Compliments

• Insults

(Antonym) The professor's coadjutor was responsible for grading the students' assignments.

• Intern

• Assistant

• Student

• Boss

The court-ordered DNA test _______ the suspect of the assault charges.

• Invoked

• Absolved

• Immured

• Coalesced

Rapunzel let down her long hair to escape from the high tower in which she was ________.

• Delineated

• Declaimed

• Absolved

• Immured

Uncle Willy is fond of guiding his nieces and nephews with colorful apothegms.

• Jokes

• Fables

• Rules

• Sayings

(Antonym) With extra credits at the end of the semester, Jose was absolved from the need to go to summer school.

• Doomed

• Freed

• Depressed

• Panicked

The architect Norman Foster __________ his idea for Bilbao's subway entrances, saving the details until later.

• Coalesced

• Absolved

• Adumbrated

• Immured

Yugoslavia's collapse led to _________ struggles among its former components.

• Internecine

• Germane

• Bibulous

• Apothegm

It is __________ that a person who carries this gene will get this disease.

• Absolved

• Congenital

• Ineluctable

• Internecine

The president can _________ emergency powers to deal with a serious crisis.

• Internecine

• Adumbrate

• Invoke

• Absolve