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Importance of Being Earnest Vocab

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
a thing at which someone excels
a)
heretical
b)
provincial
c)
forte
d)
insuperable
2.

showing conviction or sincerity

a)

salver

b)

apprised

c)

effrontery

d)

earnest

3.
a person made weak or disabled by illness or injury
a)
invalid
b)
eccentric
c)
misanthrope
d)
profligate
4.
in an honest and straightforward way
a)
equanimity
b)
candidly
c)
indiscretion
d)
ostentatiously
5.

synonym for reckless or immoral

a)

profligate

b)

misanthrope

c)

solicitors

d)

impetuous

6.
to waver between different opinions or actions
a)
equanimity
b)
indiscretion
c)
vacillate
d)
consternation
7.
a person who dislikes humankind and avoids human society
a)
metaphysical
b)
neologistic
c)
heretical
d)
misanthrope
8.
an event causing great and often sudden damage or distress
a)
abstraction
b)
calamity
c)
grotesque
d)
effrontery
9.
having or showing characteristics regarded as typical of a woman
a)
effeminate
b)
misanthrope
c)
entrancing
d)
indecorous
10.

synonym for the word "audacity"

a)

consternation

b)

indignant

c)

insuperable

d)

effrontery

11.
appealing to an abnormal and unhealthy interest in disturbing and unpleasant subjects
a)
morbid
b)
philanthropic
c)
arduous
d)
metaphysical
12.
Synonym for the word "specialty"
a)
candour
b)
forte
c)
debonair
d)
commended
13.
the term for a person who is in bad health
a)
heretic
b)
grotesque
c)
misanthrope
d)
invalid
14.
Synonym for the word "serious"
a)
utilitarian
b)
provincial
c)
earnest
d)
bewildered
15.
Synonym for "unstable"
a)
vacillating
b)
ostentatious
c)
heretical
d)
eccentric
16.
Synonym for the term "disaster"
a)
consternation
b)
perambulator
c)
calamity
d)
apoplexy
17.

shameless boldness or insolent behavior

a)

effrontery

b)

credulity

c)

indiscretion

d)

expurgation

18.

Synonym for the word "schemes"

a)

machinations

b)

effrontery

c)

profligates

d)

misanthropes

19.

A devious or secret plan

a)

vacillate

b)

forte

c)

machination

d)

invalid