WorksheetsVocabulary 11 Grade Unit 1
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Assuage means....
a)
Alliance
b)
Evoke
c)
Mitigate
d)
Scene
2.
I want to __________ a response from you, if you would listen.
a)
Elicit
b)
Expostulate
c)
Hiatus
d)
Lurid
3.
Innuendo means.....
a)
Intervene
b)
Banal
c)
Insinuation
d)
Direct
4.
Meritorious means.....
a)
blame
b)
laudable
c)
uncloyed
d)
novel
5.
An overworked parent mat be unlikely to indulge the complaints of a _____________ child.
a)
petulant
b)
umbrage
c)
unctuous
d)
decadance
6.
Provincial means....
a)
cosmopolitan
b)
outstrip
c)
narrow-minded
d)
greasy
7.
Unctuous means...
a)
gruff
b)
mealymouthed
c)
surpass
d)
gruff
8.
To intercede means...
a)
to sit
b)
to intervene
c)
to pause
d)
to be trite
9.
I'm jaded. What am I?
a)
Praiseworthy
b)
Pleasant
c)
Sated
d)
Original
10.
The Great Gatsby tells a universal story without being marred by _____________ prose.
a)
Hackneyed
b)
Cloyed
c)
Reprehensible
d)
Sanction
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