WorksheetsEmily Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Meaning: relating to hyperbole, which means language that describes something as better or worse than it really is
a)
hyperbolic
b)
approbation
c)
commodious
d)
ostracism
2.
Meaning: trying to get the approval of an important or powerful person by giving that person praise or special attention
a)
piquant
b)
adorning
c)
fawning
d)
argot
3.
Synonyms: equivocal, conflicted
a)
unfeigned
b)
ambivalent
c)
incessant
d)
petulant
4.
Meaning: feeling or showing deep hatred or disapproval
a)
contemptuous
b)
exorbitant
c)
fallacious
d)
ubiquitous
5.
Meaning: talking to someone in a way that shows that you believe you are more intelligent or better than other people
a)
denouement
b)
preclude
c)
foolproof
d)
patronizing
6.
Meaning: lacking seriousness or respect
a)
credulous
b)
flippant
c)
prevalent
d)
contumacious
7.
Synonym: sermonic, preachy, homiletic
a)
poignant
b)
didactic
c)
trifling
d)
mettlesome
8.
Meaning: in a way that is not serious and that is meant to be funny
a)
under your nose
b)
in a pickle
c)
cup of joe
d)
tongue in cheek
9.
Synonym: ominous, inauspicious, sinister
a)
ebullient
b)
foreboding
c)
ambiguous
d)
cognizant
10.
Meaning: the feeling that people express when they criticize and laugh at something in an insulting way
a)
derision
b)
eddy
c)
exoneration
d)
complaisance
11.
Meaning: confident and hopeful
a)
revere
b)
trite
c)
sanguine
d)
contemn
12.
Synonym: mien, garb
a)
appearance
b)
pertinent
c)
idiosyncrasy
d)
hew
13.
Meaning: seeming to be true, but possibly not
a)
contiguous
b)
ostensible
c)
auspicious
d)
involute
14.
Synonym: visage
a)
feet
b)
face
c)
hands
d)
nose
15.
Meaning: smallest amount of something, last part left of something that existed before
a)
limn
b)
clot
c)
soot
d)
vestige
16.
Meaning: the act or an instance of placing two or more things side by side
a)
benevolence
b)
concord
c)
juxtaposition
d)
corroboration
17.
Meaning: omission of the conjunctions that ordinarily join coordinate words or clauses
a)
asyndeton
b)
idolatry
c)
intransigence
d)
prolix
18.
Meaning: a figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated
a)
equipoise
b)
metonymy
c)
riddle
d)
discourse
19.
Meaning: a combination of words that have opposite or very different meanings
a)
reiteration
b)
oxymoron
c)
virago
d)
presage
20.
Meaning: the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words usually in such a manner that it applies to each in a different sense or makes sense with only on
a)
zeugma
b)
putrefaction
c)
finesse
d)
chicanery
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