WorksheetsThird Six Weeks Vocabulary Pre Ap
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reasons
a)
Abject
b)
Adverse
c)
Adamant
d)
Arbitrary
2.
Surrender under agreed conditions
a)
Capitulate
b)
Circumvent
c)
Commensurate
d)
Connive
3.
Based on or subject to individual discretion.
a)
Abnegation
b)
Antithesis
c)
Abitrary
d)
Capitulate
4.
A strong feeling of uneasiness caused by guilt.
a)
Conflagration
b)
Contentious
c)
Covet
d)
Compunction
5.
A leader who seeks support by appealing to the popular passions.
a)
Dearth
b)
Dufunct
c)
Didactic
d)
Demagogue
6.
Instructive, especially excessively
a)
Didactic
b)
Debacle
c)
Denigrate
d)
Disparate
7.
Conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible.
a)
Duress
b)
Egregious
c)
Engender
d)
Espouse
8.
Grant freedom to as from slavery or servitude.
a)
Engender
b)
Enfranchise
c)
Espouse
d)
Exacerbate
9.
Remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line.
a)
Engender
b)
Emend
c)
Expunge
d)
Extol
10.
Done without good reason; uncalled for
a)
Fortuitous
b)
Gratutious
c)
Extraneous
d)
Contentious
11.
Advance over an area belonging to someone or something.
a)
Impute
b)
Insidious
c)
Impinge
d)
Inure
12.
Liberality in bestowing gifts.
a)
Largesse
b)
Laconic
c)
Inveterate
d)
Maudlin
13.
A small or moderate token amount.
a)
Maxim
b)
Mores
c)
Modicum
d)
Maudin
14.
The lowest point of anything.
a)
Nadir
b)
Zenith
c)
Epitomy
d)
Extraneous
15.
Not easily borne; wearing.
a)
Panacea
b)
Nadir
c)
Penchant
d)
Onerous
16.
A ruler unconstrained by law.
a)
Portent
b)
Potentate
c)
Porcine
d)
Portentious
17.
State of uncertainty in a choice between unfavorable options.
a)
Quandary
b)
Quaint
c)
Quibble
d)
Quantum
18.
Cancel officially
a)
Reprobate
b)
Recalcitrant
c)
Rescind
d)
Rife
19.
A feeling of anger caused by being offended.
a)
Trite
b)
Vociferous
c)
Umbrage
d)
Umbrettes
20.
Excessive, uncontrolled.
a)
Wanling
b)
Wanton
c)
Wonton
d)
Waning
21.
Deliberately suggesting two or more different, and sometimes conflicting, meanings in a work. An event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one was--this is done on purpose by the author.
a)
Allegory
b)
Allusion
c)
Ambiguity
d)
Anaphora
22.
Inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence. Purpose is rhythm or emphasis or euphony. It is a fancy word for inversion.
a)
Antithesis
b)
Apostrophe
c)
Ambiguity
d)
Anastrophe
23.
Poetic and rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another, creating an effect of surprise and wit.
a)
Metonymy
b)
Juxtaposition
c)
Paradox
d)
Parallel Structure
24.
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well formed sentences in a language.
a)
Syntax
b)
Rhetoric
c)
Synecdoche
d)
Vernacular
25.
A recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout a work (or in several works by one author), unifying the work by tying the current situation to previous ones, or new ideas to the theme.
a)
Metonymy
b)
Mood
c)
Motif
d)
Model
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