Vocabulary Quiz

Caroline’s new job allowed her to work from home rather than the office, so rising gas prices had less impact on her daily life.

• Exclude

• Loathe

• Negate

After his wife shrunk his favorite sweater by putting it in the dryer, Steve was hesitant to trust her to do the laundry.

• Wary

• Cowering

• Loathing

Jared hated having cat fur all over his clothes, so whenever he visited his sister he changed his clothes before picking up or petting her cat.

• Loathe

• Dehumanize

• Cower

During an investigation, detectives sometimes decide to leave certain details out of their public report in order to keep them private.

• Entrench

• Exclude

• Wary

After watching a documentary about the Uyghur in China, Hannah couldn’t stop thinking about how wrong it is to deny someone basic dignity just because another person doesn’t respect their religion or cultural identity.

• Entrench

• Cower

• Dehumanize

During last month’s earthquake, the rattling and falling objects made everyone hide in fear.

• Cower

• Negage

• Exclude

Luke proposed a new holiday tradition of volunteering time at a local charity on Christmas morning rather than exchanging gifts. However, his siblings refused to go along with this idea and insisted that they not change their family tradition.

• Dehumanize

• Entrenched

• Cower

The zoo visitors noticed how the animals that surrounded the tiger’s enclosure seemed to ___ each time the tiger let out his terrifying roar.

• Negate

• Exclude

• Cower

The desire to win the state championship was so ___ in the school’s culture that no one even considered the possibility that they could lose.

• Entrenched

• Loathed

• Negated

Celia thought it was ___ not to say hello to and acknowledge the people who cleaned her office each night.

• Entrenching

• Cowering

• Dehumanizing