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WorksheetsEnglish IV: Vocabulary 9
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
to reduce the intensity of; to relieve
a)
inveigh
b)
allay
c)
lionize
d)
vitiate
2.
Roughness or harshness; severity; irritability
a)
asperity
b)
exegesis
c)
profligate
d)
lionize
3.
An analysis; an interpretation
a)
exegesis
b)
recalcitrant
c)
allay
d)
vitiate
4.
False; duplicitous; insincere
a)
hypocritical
b)
profligate
c)
recalcitrant
d)
unwieldy
5.
To protest; to oppose
a)
inveigh
b)
allay
c)
lionize
d)
vitiate
6.
To honor or celebrate
a)
lionize
b)
allay
c)
exegesis
d)
vitiate
7.
Wasteful; immoral
a)
profligate
b)
hypocritical
c)
recalcitrant
d)
asperity
8.
Stubbornly resistant
a)
recalcitrant
b)
unwieldy
c)
asperity
d)
profligate
9.
Not easily held; unmanageable
a)
unwieldy
b)
hypocritical
c)
recalcitrant
d)
profligate
10.
To reduce the value of; to corrupt; to spoil
a)
vitiate
b)
lionize
c)
allay
d)
inveigh
11.
Walter tried to ___ his fears of dying of cancer and leaving his family behind by dealing drugs.
a)
allay
b)
inveigh
c)
lionize
d)
vitiate
12.
Although Transformers IV has lots of product placement, and it's annoying, I will not ____ on this practice in my blog post.
a)
inveigh
b)
asperity
c)
vitiate
d)
allay
13.
Chad _____ John Cena; he finds Cena to be the most amazing human on the planet.
a)
lionizes
b)
allays
c)
vitiates
d)
inveighs
14.
Shap's classes have ____ her moral character and led her down the wrong path.
a)
vitiated
b)
allayed
c)
lionized
d)
inveighed
15.
When my brothers were dating girls, I treated them with ___ in hopes of scaring them away.
a)
asperity
b)
exegesis
c)
recalcitrant
d)
unwieldy
16.
After listening to Jarrod's _____ of the novel and the author's use of green curtains, everyone wanted to crawl in a hole and cry.
a)
exegesis
b)
asperity
c)
profligate
d)
vitiate
17.
My dad was ____ when I was growing up; my brothers never had curfews, but I did.
a)
hypocritical
b)
unwieldy
c)
profligate
d)
asperity
18.
Saul, Chuck's often ________ brother, bribed the copier into lying for him.
a)
profligate
b)
asperity
c)
unwieldy
d)
recalcitrant
19.
Because the students were ______ and refused to do work, many seniors didn't graduate.
a)
recalcitrant
b)
unwieldy
c)
hypocritical
d)
allay
20.
The scrawny boy could not push the ____ lawnmower around the yard.
a)
unwieldy
b)
profligate
c)
inveigh
d)
exegesis
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