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Vocabulary Unit 4 review

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The thieves who ___________ with several of the museum's most valuable paintings have never been found.

a)

incinerated

b)

absconded

c)

fated

d)

rectified

2.

__________ to information on a seemingly unlimited number of topics is available over the Internet.

a)

Larceny

b)

Arduous

c)

Access

d)

Anarchy

3.

In the final days of a war, civilians may find themselves living in ________.

a)

auspicious

b)

precipice

c)

prototype

d)

anarchy

4.

No matter how carefully you plan for it, moving to a new home is an ________ chore.

a)

arduous

b)

pliant

c)

hoodwink

d)

daunt

5.

My parents describe the day that they first met as a most _____ occasion.

a)

auspicious

b)

intrepid

c)

fated

d)

inanimate

6.

Despite all its inherent dangers, space flight did not _____ the Mercury program astronauts.

a)

daunt

b)

hoodwink

c)

abscond

d)

disentangle

7.

Rescuers worked for hours to _______ a whale from the fishing net wrapped around its jaws.

a)

disentangle

b)

incinerate

c)

rectify

d)

revile

8.

The tragic outcome of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is _____ from the play's very first scene.

a)

fated

b)

access

c)

auspicious

d)

reprieve

9.

Many sweepstakes offers _______ people into thinking they have already won big prizes.

a)

hoodwink

b)

larceny

c)

daunt

d)

prototype

10.

Although fossils are __________, they hold many clues to life on Earth millions of years ago.

a)

inanimate

b)

anarchy

c)

auspicious

d)

precipice

11.

Because of environmental concerns, many cities and towns no longer _________ their garbage.

a)

incinerate

b)

arduous

c)

revile

d)

pompous

12.

________ Polynesian sailors in outrigger canoes were the first humans to reach the Hawaiian Islands.

a)

Intrepid

b)

Pliant

c)

Arduous

d)

Pompous

13.

Someone who steals property that is worth thousands of dollars commits grand ________.

a)

larceny

b)

hoodwink

c)

anarchy

d)

reprieve

14.

The _______ branches of the sapling sagged but did not break under the weight of the heavy snow.

a)

pliant

b)

access

c)

revile

d)

precipice

15.

Political cartoonists like nothing better than to mock _______ public officials.

a)

pompous

b)

intrepid

c)

auspicious

d)

pliant

16.

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the world hovered on the ____ of nuclear war.

a)

precipice

b)

prototype

c)

reprieve

d)

access

17.

The assembly line managers studied the _____ of the new car for weeks before production began.

a)

prototype

b)

precipice

c)

fated

d)

larceny

18.

The senators debated a series of measures designed to ______ the nation's trade imbalance.

a)

rectify

b)

reprieve

c)

access

d)

daunt

19.

A vacation is a kind of __________ from the cares and responsibilities of everyday life.

a)

reprieve

b)

prototype

c)

hoodwink

d)

pliant

20.

The enraged King Lear ____ the daughters who have cast him out into a fierce storm.

a)

reviles

b)

absconds

c)

intrepid

d)

disentangles