Unit 1 Vocab Julia

approbation means to

• mitigate

• sanction

• evoke

• reversible

After the team won several matches , they a _____________opinion of their ability to succeed.

• petulant

• insular

• bombastic

• seditious

when you are able to ________ a situation it is the opposite of intensifying or aggravating it

• caveat

• precept

• elicit

• assuage

to evoke or extract something means same as to ________ something

• elicit

• soporific

• inadvertant

• sangfroid

When the jurors speak, they sometimes say nothing and just go on and on spurting meaningless drivel. In the sentence above, drivel is being used as a

• verb

• adverb

• noun

• adjective

To __________ a cause would be the opposite of supporting the cause.

• transcend

• expostulate

• assuage

• umbrage

Everyone in the class looked to her for answers. She ended up being the archetype they aspired to be. Which word is a synonym for archetype?

• caveat

• petulant

• vitriolic

• epitome

The delegate was being sarcastic when he referred to the candidate as liberal. Which word means the opposite of being liberal?

• insular

• admonition

• irrevocable

• precept

I'm so sorry I spilled your drink, I didn't mean to. It was accidental. Which word is a synonym for accidental?

• bombastic

• inadvertant

• proclivity

• transcend

Maria gets really ____________ when her mother tells her she can't go out past ten.

• caveat

• insular

• petulant

• irrevocable