Vocabulary 5 Quiz

counter to what intuition would lead one to expect

• Counterintuitive

• Counteract

• Polygon

• Semiformal

to act in opposition to; frustrate by contrary action.

• Counteract

• Counterintuitive

• Unified

• Polymer

Having become united, uniform or whole.

• Unified

• Unison

• Semicircle

• Telegraph

a process in which all elements behave in the same way at the same time; simultaneous or synchronous parallel action:

• Unison

• Unified

• Semicircle

• Telegraph

the arc from one end of a diameter to the other.

• Semicircle

• Semiformal

• Telethon

• Polymer

containing some formal elements

• Semiformal

• Semicircle

• Polymer

• Polygon

a figure, especially a closed plane figure, having three or more, usually straight, sides.

• Polygon

• Polymer

• Telethon

• Semicircle

a compound of high molecular weight derived either by the addition of many smaller molecules

• Polymer

• Polygon

• Unison

• Counteract

an apparatus, system, or process for transmitting messages or signals to a distant place, especially by means of an electric device consisting essentially of a sending instrument and a distant receiving instrument connected by a conducting wire or other communications channel.

• Telegraph

• Telethon

• Polymer

• Unison

a television broadcast lasting several hours, especially one soliciting support for a charity.

• Telethon

• Telegraph

• Polygon

• Semiformal