Week 4 Vocab Review

Match the following words to their correct definitions.

• an unpleasant or harmful odor

• effluvia

• extremely significant

• epochal

• to explain or present

• expound

• not influenced by strong emotion

• emulate

• to match or surpass

• dispassionate

What is an example of effluvia?

• the smell of flowers

• the smell of rotten eggs

• getting a better grade than your best friend

• something very important, like winning the Nobel Peace Prize

Which word is a synonym for epochal?

• boring

• unimportant

• meaningful

• sad

If you emulate someone, what do you want to do?

• You want to be like that person and to do as well as they do.

• You want to hit them.

• You want to run away crying when you see them.

• You want to help them because you feel sorry for them.

A teacher expounds on how to solve an equation. What is the teacher doing?

• They are angrily yelling at you about how to solve the equation.

• They are telling you not to solve anymore equations.

• They are drawing you a picture of you solving an equation.

• They are explaining to you how to solve the equation.

Your teacher is dispassionate when you tell them the dog ate your homework so you shouldn't get in trouble for not doing it. How is your teacher reacting?

• They are agreeing with what you are saying.

• They are not being influenced by your situation.

• They are crying because they are sad.

• They are disappointed in you.

Choose the best vocabulary word to complete the sentence:

Can you please ____ on how to find the theme of a novel?

• dispassionate

• epochal

• expound

• effluvia

Choose the best vocabulary word to complete the sentence:

The judge was ___ when he listened to the man's excuses for why he broke the law.

• dispassionate

• epochal

• emulate

• effluvia

Choose the best word to complete the sentence:

This is the most ___ information I've ever learned!

• effluvia

• emulate

• dispassionate

• epochal

Choose the word that best completes the sentence.

After some investigating, I found out that the ___ was coming from rotten food in the trash can.

• dispassionate

• effluvia

• expound

• epochal