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Vocab Review

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does bellicose mean?

a)

Aggression

b)

Obvious

c)

Skillful

d)

Decisive

2.

What means "dull" or "boring"?

a)

Equitable

b)

Drab

c)

Deft

d)

Insubstantial

3.

What means the opposite of "plain"?

a)

Inclined

b)

Drab

c)

Lavish

d)

Mediocre

4.

What does nonpartisan mean?

a)

Obious

b)

Significant

c)

Hesitant

d)

Not having a political affiliation

5.

He was _____ to accept the invitation because he wouldn't know anyone at the party.

a)

Reticent

b)

Smug

c)

Overt

d)

Stunted

6.

What does unduly mean?

a)

Fair

b)

Unreasonable

c)

Careful

d)

Significant

7.

What is charisma?

a)

Charm

b)

A lie

c)

Corruption

d)

Aggression

8.

Which word relates to "farming"?

a)

Barrage

b)

Conflagration

c)

Husbandry

d)

Gaffe

9.

What is a philanthropist?

a)

A theory

b)

A main character

c)

Someone who exaggerates

d)

Someone who donates money

10.

His calm outward expression _____ his mounting fury.

a)

Belied

b)

Alluded

c)

Burgeoned

d)

Encroached

11.

Which word means to "increase rapidly"?

a)

Chide

b)

Coerce

c)

Burgeon

d)

Consecrate

12.

What does despoil mean?

a)

Declare official

b)

Ruin

c)

Prove false

d)

Blend in

13.

After getting to know him, her initial impression began to _____.

a)

Flag

b)

Gloss

c)

Outstrip

d)

Redouble

14.

What does capricious mean?

a)

Disliking

b)

Suddenly changing

c)

Friendly

d)

Respectful

15.

Which word means "friendly" or "lively"?

a)

Deferential

b)

Didactic

c)

Ephemeral

d)

Convivial

16.

The courtiers always remained ______ in the presence of the queen.

a)

Amiable

b)

Averse

c)

Dubious

d)

Deferential

17.

Which word means "just starting"?

a)

Nascent

b)

Haughty

c)

Imperial

d)

Meancing

18.

What word means "slowly harmful"?

a)

Pernicious

b)

Reclusive

c)

Revisionist

d)

Strident

19.

I refuse to give any _____ to those rumors.

a)

Amalgam

b)

Decimation

c)

Diffidence

d)

Credence

20.

What does diffidence mean?

a)

Destruction

b)

Bad behavior

c)

Shyness

d)

Not caring

21.

Which word means "lack of restraint"?

a)

Rancor

b)

Retrenchment

c)

Surfeit

d)

Intemperance

22.

What does rancor mean?

a)

Bitterness

b)

Reduction

c)

Large number

d)

Not aligned

23.

Which word means an "excessive amount"?

a)

Precursor

b)

Surfeit

c)

Rancor

d)

Retrenchment

24.

What does equivocal mean?

a)

Equal

b)

Undeniable

c)

Ambiguous

d)

Equitable

25.

Which word means "slow to act"?

a)

Dilatory

b)

Fervent

c)

Funerary

d)

Effusive

26.

The true nature of the universe is _______.

a)

Linguistic

b)

Invidious

c)

Ineffable

d)

Ostentatious

27.

What does invidious mean?

a)

Minimal

b)

Unknown

c)

Unpleasant

d)

Flexible

28.

Which word means "vulnerable to bribes"?

a)

Tenable

b)

Venal

c)

Circuitous

d)

Inept

29.

What is a phenomenon?

a)

A strange event

b)

Something that happens everywhere

c)

Something pushed out

d)

A new method

30.

What is a dirge?

a)

A funeral

b)

A party

c)

A job

d)

A hole

31.

Who is a profiteer?

a)

Someone who doesn't have a lot of money

b)

A savvy business-person

c)

Someone who makes money illegally

d)

Someone who is born into money

32.

What means to be "unsure" or "critical"?

a)

Skepticism

b)

Prospectus

c)

Impasse

d)

Martinet

33.

Which word means "relating to an uncle"?

a)

Allege

b)

Coddle

c)

Avuncular

d)

Amalgamation

34.

Which word means to "ridicule"?

a)

Discard

b)

Enunciate

c)

Fathom

d)

Deride

35.

What does dispense mean?

a)

Ignore

b)

Include

c)

Flood

d)

Turn rigid

36.

Which word means to "turn rigid"?

a)

Ossify

b)

Polarize

c)

Debilitate

d)

Discard

37.

We were _______ to find our basement flooded.

a)

Esoteric

b)

Irresolute

c)

Dismayed

d)

Derivative

38.

Which word means "gloomy"?

a)

Resplendent

b)

Sonorous

c)

Sactimonious

d)

Sullen

39.

Which word means "prominent"?

a)

Sanctimonious

b)

Sonorous

c)

Obtrusive

d)

Unheeded

40.

What does extirpation mean?

a)

Extinction

b)

Confusion

c)

Disorder

d)

Break apart