WorksheetsPreAp Fourth Six Weeks Vocabulary
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
State or condition markedly different from the norm.
a)
Aberration
b)
Bane
c)
Abstruse
d)
Ameloriate
2.
Run away, often taking something or someone else.
a)
Aberration
b)
Alloy
c)
Belie
d)
Abscond
3.
Anything that is a cause of annoyance, harm, ruin or death.
a)
Abscond
b)
Abberation
c)
Bane
d)
Belie
4.
Sorrowful through loss or deprivation.
a)
Belie
b)
Bereft
c)
Abscond
d)
Beret
5.
Having knowledge or being aware.
a)
Cognizant
b)
Cognate
c)
Conflagration
d)
Contentious
6.
A very intense or uncontrolled fire.
a)
Maelstrom
b)
Contentious
c)
Conflagration
d)
Cantankerous
7.
Showing an inclination to disagree.
a)
Conflagration
b)
Contentious
c)
Contemptible
d)
Cognizant
8.
Fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind.
a)
Disparate
b)
Desperate
c)
Duress
d)
Dour
9.
Showing a brooding ill humor.
a)
Dour
b)
Duress
c)
Daunt
d)
Dreary
10.
Compulsory force or threat.
a)
Daunt
b)
Duress
c)
Derogatory
d)
Demeaning
11.
Strive to equal or match, especially by imitating.
a)
Emulate
b)
Emulsion
c)
Engender
d)
Exacerbate
12.
Call forth. Create
a)
Emulate
b)
Gentrify
c)
Exacerbate
d)
Engender
13.
Make worse.
a)
Endanger
b)
Encapsulate
c)
Exacerbate
d)
Engender
14.
Containing or based on incorrect reasoning.
a)
Fallacious
b)
Idiosyncratic
c)
Failure
d)
Expunge
15.
Peculiar to the individual.
a)
Psychosomatic
b)
Idiosyncratic
c)
Idiom
d)
Intimation
16.
A slight suggestion or vague understanding.
a)
Idiosyncratic
b)
Emulation
c)
Intimation
d)
Fallacious
17.
A situation or state of confused, violent movement. A storm or whirlpool at sea.
a)
Conflagration
b)
Maelstrom
c)
Jetsam
d)
Flotsam
18.
A person who is rejected from society or home.
a)
Pariah
b)
Parabola
c)
Paragon
d)
Paronym
19.
A slight wind.
a)
Zenith
b)
Zealous
c)
Zephyr
d)
Zeppelin
20.
A trace of something that no longer exists.
a)
Vestige
b)
Vesper
c)
Vestry
d)
Vestment
21.
Harsh, non-melodic, unpleasant sounding arrangement of words.
a)
Cached
b)
Symphony
c)
Cacophony
d)
Euphony
22.
An elaborate metaphor that compares two things that are startlingly different. Often an extended metaphor.
a)
Conceit
b)
Egocentricity
c)
Concrete
d)
Contrite
23.
Art of effective communication, especially persuasive discourse.
a)
Rhyme
b)
Rhetoric
c)
Conceit
d)
Appeal
24.
The attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience, revealed through diction, figurative language and organization.
a)
Tone
b)
Tempo
c)
Mood
d)
Conceit
25.
An atmosphere created by a writer's diction and the details selected.
a)
Mood
b)
Tone
c)
Purpose
d)
Conceit
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