3rd Honors List #1 (2023)

The horror movie Lake Placid is ironically named, because placid means:

• violent

• peaceful

• murky

• shallow

Which of the following words BEST describes a characteristic of cookie dough?

• amalgam

• derelict

• sedentary

• surfeit

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau are famous for founding this movement:

• Romanticism

• Transcendentalism

• Communism

• Fascism

Which of these words is an antonym of burgeon?

• thrive

• grow

• wilt

• subsist

Type of poetry that has no consistent meter or rhyme scheme:

• sonnet

• free verse

• haiku

• iambic pentameter

Economic system based on manufacturing:

• agriculturalism

• laissez-faire

• industrialism

• socialism

A good person feels ________ when they wrong someone.

• derelict

• upbraid

• sedentary

• contrite

Another word for foolish is:

• fatuous

• surfeit

• placid

• ascetic

My wife is very neat and clean; she loves to keep the house __________.

• ascetic

• derelict

• immaculate

• amalgam

After World War II, most concentration camps were _____ by the Allies because they were ridden with diseases and filth.

• upbraided

• burgeoned

• surfeit

• razed