Unit 3 Vocabulary Quiz ENG 10

The British owners of the colony were proposing to exempt themselves from any taxes imposed by the colonial legislature, and it was Benjamin Franklin's mission to redress this injustice.

In this sentence, the definition of redress is

• endorse

• discuss

• remedy

• study

Benjamin Franklin preferred to persuade rather than coerce, and he even offered to pay the British out of his own pocket for the tea destroyed by the Colonists in the Boston Tea Party.

Which word is closest in meaning to coerce in this sentence?

• pressure

• coax

• confuse

• surrender

In 1776, Congress sent Franklin to France to seek support against the British. Britain and France were historic adversaries.

What is the meaning of adversaries in this sentence?

• neighbors

• antagonists

• monarchies

• allies

Which word means the opposite of urbane?

• elegant

• fussy

• unmannered

• radical

______________ means of or related to the kitchen or cooking

• fallow

• punitive

• urbane

• culinary

__________ means unseeded

• urbane

• fallow

• culinary

• adversary

Prison is a punitive action meant to rehabilitate criminals.

A synonym for punitive is

• disciplinary

• merciful

• mercenary

• honorable

The family perpetuated holiday traditions.

A synonym for perpetuated is

• abandoned

• studied

• shared

• continued

The newspaper report news of the company's demise.

An antonym for demise is

• birth

• competition

• takeover

• fate

The woman liquidated her debt and started fresh.

An antonym for liquidated is

• destroyed

• eliminated

• created

• settled