Engl 10 Midterm Practice

If you augment something, you make it...

• smaller

• stand on its head

• larger

• less appealing

Someone who is tentative about swimming would be most likely to...

• do a cannon ball off the diving board

• glare at the water angrily

• dive in head first

• dip one toe into the water and then take it out again.

One of the most truculent characters in Beowulf is...

• Grendel, because he's so quick to anger

• Hrothgar, because he gives rings and wealth to his warriors

• Beowulf, because he always brags about his battles

• The dragon, because he can fly

The word that matches this picture best is...

• gape

• altruistic

• ironic

• verbatim

The word that matches this picture best is...

• musty

• amicable

• brandish

• pungent

The word that matches this picture best is...

• officious

• pungent

• deft

• opulent

Match the following

• persuade with force or threats

• tepid

• an act or decision that serves as a guide for future situations with similar circumstances

• sojourn

• a journey

• coerce

• lukewarm

• precedent

• think about dreamily, to become absorbed in though

• muse

Match the following

• a person's death

• demise

• so unimportant or small as to not even be worth considering

• uncanny

• cause someone to feel isolated

• alienate

• strange or mysterious, especially in an unsettling way

• negligible

• make someone feel very happy, animated, and lively

• exhilarate

The president doesn't plan to ​ ​ (a)   his ground troops yet.

• deploy
• bequeath
• reiterate
• perpetuate

The ​ ​ (a)   knight would not harm the old lady to obtain the grail, so he befriended her instead.

• chivalrous
• facile
• ominous
• ironic
• opulent