Sophomore Vocabulary Practice

Confident public speakers can perform with ............. in front of their audience, even when they are worried.

• sangfroid

• proclivity

• acculturation

Dictators usually begin their reigns by searching out and silencing _____ opinion.

• tenuous

• peculate

• seditious

• vitriolic

Choose the synonym for affable.

• amicable
• surly 
• ignorant
• formless

HIs _____ideas were published in a medical journal, and he was awarded for his innovative leadership as a doctor.

• erudite

• contraband

• gossamer

• aggrandized

It soon became the norm for fairies to be pictured as the size of buttercups and daisies, flitting about on____ wings and hiding under toadstools.

• gossamer

• erudite

• aura

• affable

The bookstore manager was pleased to _______________ his little domain by taking over the accounting department.

• aggrandize

• contraband

• infer

• reverberate

The _______________________ look on my mom's face is a mask that rarely changes: when she is elated she looks much the same as when she is dejected.

• gossamer

• affable

• aggrandize

• inscrutable

An ERUDITE person would be someone who...

• is very knowledgeable and educated

• is very curious and successful

• is very angry and tired

• is very rich and bossy

Check all of the synonyms of INSULAR below:

• close-minded

• provincial

• open-minded

• narrow-minded

Which word means "an original model on which something was patterned or replicated"?

• aura

• affable

• aggrandize

• archetype