Unit 8 Vocabulary Quiz

What does it mean to endeavor?

• To give up easily

• To try hard to do or achieve something

• To avoid any effort

• To procrastinate

What does it mean to enhance something?

• To destroy the quality

• To decrease the quality

• To intensify, increase, or further improve the quality

• To ignore the quality

What does it mean to fend for oneself?

• To rely on others for help

• To avoid taking care of oneself

• To be independent

• To look after and provide for oneself, without any help from others

What does it mean to be gullible?

• Easily persuaded to believe something

• Skeptical and doubtful

• Uninterested in believing anything

• Stubborn and resistant to new ideas

What does it mean to be humane?

• Lacking compassion

• Having or showing compassion

• Cruel and heartless

• Indifferent to others' suffering

What does it mean to instill an idea in someone's mind?

• To ignore someone's ideas

• To confuse someone with ideas

• To gradually but firmly establish an idea in a person’s mind

• To forcefully impose an idea

What does it mean to be luminous?

• Colorless and lifeless

• Gloomy and dim

• Full of light; bright or shining, especially in the dark

• Dark and dull

What does it mean to modify something?

• To completely transform something

• To destroy something

• To make partial or minor changes to something in order to improve it

• To keep something unchanged

What does it mean to be plausible?

• Illogical and irrational

• Seeming reasonable or probable

• Unreasonable and improbable

• Unconvincing and unlikely

What does it mean for something to recur?

• To occur again, periodically, or repeatedly

• To happen once and never again

• To happen unexpectedly

• To happen continuously