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WorksheetsFirst Six Weeks Vocab PAP
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
of the most contemptible kind
a)
Abject
b)
Aberration
c)
Anathema
d)
Antithesis
2.
exact opposite
a)
Arcane
b)
Abject
c)
Antithesis
d)
Anathema
3.
requiring secret or mysterious knowledge
a)
Abject
b)
Arcane
c)
Antithesis
d)
Antidivulian
4.
a fiasco or disaster
a)
Debacle
b)
Denigrate
c)
Despot
d)
Disparate
5.
to find a way around, typically in a clever surreptitious way
a)
Connive
b)
Construe
c)
Circumvent
d)
Cogent
6.
make sense of; assign a meaning to
a)
Construe
b)
Circumvent
c)
Cogent
d)
Contentious
7.
A cruel and oppressive dictator
a)
Dirge
b)
Despot
c)
Depot
d)
Demagogue
8.
a song or hymn of mourning as a memorial to a dead person
a)
Debacle
b)
Dearth
c)
Dirge
d)
Despot
9.
conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
a)
Enfranchise
b)
Egregious
c)
Engender
d)
Espouse
10.
grant freedom to as from slavery or servitude
a)
Enfranchise
b)
Engender
c)
Egregious
d)
Equanimity
11.
choose to follow a theory, idea, policy, etc
a)
Espouse
b)
Expunge
c)
Extol
d)
Egregious
12.
praise, glorify or honor
a)
Espouse
b)
Engender
c)
Enfranchise
d)
Extol
13.
containing or based on incorrect reasoning
a)
Fallacious
b)
Enfranchise
c)
Fetter
d)
Extol
14.
a shackle for ankles
a)
Foil
b)
Fetter
c)
Extol
d)
Fortuitous
15.
the dominance or leadership of one social group over others
a)
Hegemony
b)
Palimony
c)
Antimony
d)
Parsimony
16.
advance over an area belonging to someone or something else; encroach
a)
Impute
b)
Insidious
c)
Impart
d)
Impinge
17.
proceeding in a gradual way, but with very harmful effects
a)
Impinge
b)
Insidious
c)
Inane
d)
Impute
18.
the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death
a)
Knoll
b)
Knell
c)
Dirge
d)
Dearth
19.
a sign of something about to happen
a)
Portent
b)
Allegory
c)
Potentate
d)
Preclude
20.
story or poem in which characters, setting, and events stand for other people, events or abstract ideas
a)
Allusion
b)
Allegory
c)
Parody
d)
Satire
21.
Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row
a)
Anaphora
b)
Anthropomorphism
c)
Anastrophe
d)
Antithesis
22.
attributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object (personification)
a)
Antithesis
b)
Anastrophe
c)
Anaphora
d)
Anthropomorphism
23.
a speaker or writer’s choice of words
a)
Diction
b)
Apostrophe
c)
Rhetoric
d)
Didactic
24.
a work that makes fun of another work by imitating some aspect of the writer’s style
a)
Satire
b)
Parody
c)
Parable
d)
Paradox
25.
a type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in an attempt to bring about a change
a)
Parody
b)
Juxtaposition
c)
Diction
d)
Satire
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