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WorksheetsVocab 28 Practice
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 15mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Lacking confidence; shy and timid
a)
different
b)
diffident
c)
esteem
d)
esteme
2.
High regard; respect; to look upon with respect, admiration, or honor
a)
diffident
b)
modest
c)
esteem
d)
humility
3.
To express self-satisfaction over your own successor someone else's misfortune
a)
gloat
b)
swagger
c)
flaunt
d)
flount
4.
Having only a moderate estimation of oneself; not vain; free from showiness; unlikely to call attention to one's self; proper or conventional in speech, behavior or dress
a)
modets
b)
humilty
c)
humility
d)
modest
5.
To walk in an overconfident way; to strut; to brag, boast, or otherwise behave arrogantly
a)
arrogant
b)
swager
c)
flout
d)
swagger
6.
Thinking oneself to be superior; self-important
a)
arogant
b)
arrogant
c)
pompous
d)
pompoos
7.
Self-centered; interested in one's own activities or needs; selfish
a)
esteem
b)
egocentric
c)
arrogant
d)
pompous
8.
To show something off; to exhibit shamelessly; to wave grandly
a)
flout
b)
flaunt
c)
gloat
d)
swagger
9.
modesty, humbleness; a feeling of not being important or superior
a)
humilty
b)
esteem
c)
diffident
d)
humility
10.
Having exaggerated dignity, seriousness, or self-importance; pretentious
a)
pompous
b)
flaunt
c)
arrogant
d)
diffident
11.
sophisticated; possessing knowledge of many countries and topics; composed of people or elements from many parts of the world
a)
comsopolitan
b)
cosmapolitan
c)
cosmopolitain
d)
cosmopolitan
12.
Not displaying good judgment or wisdom; foolish; imprudent
a)
impolitic
b)
urbane
c)
urbanite
d)
metropolitan
13.
The form of government of a country or other organization
a)
politico
b)
paulity
c)
polity
d)
urbanite
14.
Having refined, polite, and elegant manners
a)
urbanite
b)
urbane
c)
urrbane
d)
cosmopolitan
15.
The study of the relationship among politics, geography, economics, and population
a)
megalopolis
b)
impolitic
c)
geopoltics
d)
geopolitics
16.
Artificial behavior done to impress others; action for appearance's sake
a)
afectation
b)
efficacy
c)
efficasy
d)
affectation
17.
Producing offspring or fruit; producing many works or results
a)
profilic
b)
prolific
c)
urbane
d)
de facto
18.
a person or an institution receiving help or an advantage; a person receiving money or property from a will or insurance policy
a)
benecifiary
b)
benefiber
c)
beneficiary
d)
benificiary
19.
Effectiveness; the power to produce a result
a)
efficacy
b)
effecacy
c)
effacacy
d)
effocacy
20.
A unified group within a larger group, usually in disagreement or conflict with the larger group
a)
factotum
b)
factoid
c)
de facto
d)
faction
21.
Fame for something negative; infamy
a)
notoreity
b)
notority
c)
notoriety
d)
infamous
22.
A forecast or prediction; a prediction of the outcome of a disease, or the likelihood of recovery from a disease
a)
prongosis
b)
prognosis
c)
prescribe
d)
diagnosis
23.
Fully informed; aware or conscious of something
a)
cognizant
b)
conscientious
c)
cognition
d)
omniscient
24.
The mental process of knowing, including awareness, reasoning, and judgment
a)
cognizant
b)
congition
c)
conscientious
d)
cognition
25.
Having total knowledge; knowing everything
a)
omniscent
b)
omnicscient
c)
omniscient
d)
omnisent
26.
To reduce the value, importance, or quality of something; to take away something desirable
a)
retract
b)
detract
c)
distraction
d)
extract
27.
Difficult to manage or control; stubborn; difficult to remedy, cure, or make better
a)
diagnosis
b)
impolitic
c)
preoccupied
d)
intractable
28.
To pull back; to withdraw a statement or promise
a)
detract
b)
retract
c)
protracted
d)
extract
29.
Drawn out in time; made longer
a)
portracted
b)
retract
c)
retact
d)
protracted
30.
A heartfelt request or plea
a)
entearty
b)
entreaty
c)
traction
d)
entrety
31.
The systematic explanation of a subject; a public exhibition
a)
expostion
b)
composite
c)
exposition
d)
imposition
32.
Something that is newly required; a burden or unfair demand
a)
impolitic
b)
imposition
c)
polity
d)
exposition
33.
A resistance; a disagreement
a)
oposition
b)
faction
c)
fatcion
d)
opposition
34.
Lacking distinctive or individual features
a)
distraught
b)
nondecript
c)
nondescript
d)
scripture
35.
To forbid; to prohibit; to strongly criticize or condemn
a)
proscribe
b)
procribe
c)
prolific
d)
proliterian
36.
To make a full written copy of spoken material; to adapt a song or composition for a voice or instrument other than the original
a)
transpose
b)
transcribe
c)
transportation
d)
trancribe
37.
Barely enough or sufficient; falling short in supply
a)
scant
b)
paltry
c)
pittance
d)
plethora
38.
A scarce supply; an insufficiency of
a)
devoid
b)
derth
c)
dearth
d)
detract
39.
Completely without something; lacking in
a)
dearth
b)
deviod
c)
devoid
d)
exhaustive
40.
To think about carefully and thoroughly
a)
postulate
b)
ponder
c)
stratagem
d)
pensive
41.
Ready or willing to accept something
a)
reciptive
b)
tacit
c)
disregard
d)
receptive
42.
Showing intense emotion or passion; forceful
a)
vemehent
b)
vibrant
c)
undaunted
d)
vehement
43.
Based upon impulse or random chance, rather than on reason
a)
spotaneity
b)
spontaneity
c)
arbitrary
d)
fortuitous
44.
To cleverly plan, plot, or design
a)
contrive
b)
stratagem
c)
deliberation
d)
premeditated
45.
Exceeding reasonable limits
a)
profilerate
b)
proliferate
c)
inordinate
d)
copious
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