Week 2 Vocabulary

She hopes her education will help the business grow and help her become a more astute entrepreneur.

In this sentence, astute means:

• marked by practical, hardheaded intelligence

  
  

• excessively forward

  
  

• concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul

  
  

• intended to entrap

  
  

Avert means to:

• 
  show in, or as in, a picture

  
  

• prove or support with evidence

  
  

• prevent the occurrence of

• determine the essential quality of

  
  

This envelope has been readdressed; as you observe, you can see its destination.

In this sentence, destination means:

• brief description accompanying an illustration

  
  

• an expression of regret at having caused trouble

  
  

• a message with the power to evoke laughter

  
  

• the location to which a piece of mail is meant to be delivered

  
  

The meat was fine, but the accompaniments diminished the dish: very bland cabbage rolls stuffed with rice and spinach, and leaden potato salad with cubed cooked carrots, chunks of raw apple, and golden raisins.

In this sentence, diminished means:

• helped develop or grow

  
  

• lessened the authority, dignity, or reputation of

  
  

• enfolded completely with or as if with a covering

  
  

• made better or more attractive

  
  

Exhilarating adj. thrilling or invigorating

Which of the following would best be considered exhilarating?

• a roller coaster ride

  
  

• a priest hearing confessions

  
  

• an instruction manual

  
  

• a hailstorm

  
  

loathe means to:

• transfer from one place to another

  
  

• keep an eye on; keep under surveillance

  
  

• 
  

  dislike intensely; feel disgust toward

  
  

• cast a spell over someone or something

  
  

luminous means :

• lacking vitality or spirit

• surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner

  
  

• offering little or no hope

  
  

• softly bright or radiant

  
  

But don't be surprised by the uncanny coincidences of history.

In this sentence, uncanny means:

• pointing out or revealing clearly

  
  

• surpassing the ordinary or normal

  
  

• variable and recurring at irregular intervals

  
  

• inconceivably extended in space or time

  
  

astute means :

irregular or unpredictable

• having a quality that thrusts itself into attention

• marked by practical hardheaded intelligence

• deplorable condition

• irregular or unpredictable

I think we barely averted a disaster,” he said.

In the sentence above, averted has the same or almost the same meaning as:

• criticized

• discussed

• generated

• prevented