Vocabulary Practice Unit 9

Which of the following is another word for retaliate?

• liberate

• avenge

• cede

• impact

An activity that is not required can be described as

• optional

• logical

• variable

• outright

To give a false or untrue version or idea is to

• intimidate

• misrepresent

• saunter

• rendezvous

If a country has been freed from another country’s domination, it has been

• tinted

• avenged

• subordinated

• liberated

Which of the following words would you use to describe a cactus that is rounded and plump?

• sluggish

• logical

• giddy

• rotund

Someone who is strolling along a beach is

• sauntering

• verging

• intimidating

• deluging

Which of the following words could not be used to replace logical (line 3)?

• rational

• reasonable

• unsound

• sensible

If a chess piece is ceded (line 5), it is

• damaged

• surrendered

• won

• upgraded

In line 7, discretion means

• speed

• training

• poor judgment

• good judgment

Which of the following could be used to replace variable (line 7)?

• unchanging

• constant

• shifting

• steady