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Word List 7

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 40mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Define Antebellum

a)

overbearing pride or presumption

b)

belonging to a period before a war; especially the American Civil War

c)

the use of tricks to deceive someone

d)

treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor

2.

Define Auspicious

a)

indicating favorable circumstances and good luck; giving or being a sign of future success

b)

a divine manifestation

c)

a tactic for delaying legislation by making long speeches

d)

without revealing one's identity

3.

Define Chicanery

a)

impossible to deny or disprove

b)

treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor

c)

overbearing pride or presumption

d)

the use of tricks to deceive someone

4.

Define Epiphany

a)

a tactic for delaying legislation by making long speeches

b)

without revealing one's identity

c)

a divine manifestation

d)

full of trivial conversation; tending to talk a great deal; talkative

5.

Define Facetious

a)

treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor

b)

overbearing pride or presumption

c)

impossible to deny or disprove

d)

belonging to a period before a war; especially the American Civil War

6.

Define Filibuster

a)

without revealing one's identity

b)

a tactic for delaying legislation by making long speeches

c)

full of trivial conversation; tending to talk a great deal; talkative

d)

indicating favorable circumstances and good luck; giving or being a sign of future success

7.

Define Hubris

a)

impossible to deny or disprove

b)

belonging to a period before a war; especially the American Civil War

c)

overbearing pride or presumption

d)

the use of tricks to deceive someone

8.

Define Incognito

a)

a divine manifestation

b)

indicating favorable circumstances and good luck; giving or being a sign of future success

c)

full of trivial conversation; tending to talk a great deal; talkative

d)

without revealing one's identity

9.

Define Incontrovertible

a)

impossible to deny or disprove

b)

belonging to a period before a war; especially the American Civil War

c)

the use of tricks to deceive someone

d)

treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor

10.

Define Loquacious

a)

indicating favorable circumstances and good luck; giving or being a sign of future success

b)

a divine manifestation

c)

full of trivial conversation; tending to talk a great deal; talkative

d)

a tactic for delaying legislation by making long speeches

11.

Define Acumen

a)

authenticate by someone empowered to witness signatures

b)

having a bad disposition; surly

c)

the ability to make good judgments and quick decisions; shrewdness shown by keen insight

d)

divide voting districts unfairly and to one's advantage

12.

Define Boisterous

a)

noisy, energetic, and cheerful; rowdy

b)

lacking social polish; unsophisticated and socially awkward

c)

bend the knees and bow in a servile manner; act in an excessively subservient manner

d)

having unlimited power

13.

Define Churlish

a)

take the work or an idea of someone else and pass it off as one's own

b)

having a bad disposition; surly

c)

divide voting districts unfairly and to one's advantage

d)

authenticate by someone empowered to witness signatures

14.

Define Gauche

a)

bend the knees and bow in a servile manner; act in an excessively subservient manner

b)

having unlimited power

c)

seize and take control without authority

d)

lacking social polish; unsophisticated and socially awkward

15.

Define Gerrymander

a)

divide voting districts unfairly and to one's advantage

b)

authenticate by someone empowered to witness signatures

c)

take the work or an idea of someone else and pass it off as one's own

d)

the ability to make good judgments and quick decisions; shrewdness shown by keen insight

16.

Define Kowtow

a)

noisy, energetic, and cheerful; rowdy

b)

bend the knees and bow in a servile manner; act in an excessively subservient manner

c)

having unlimited power

d)

seize and take control without authority

17.

Define Notarize

a)

the ability to make good judgments and quick decisions; shrewdness shown by keen insight

b)

having a bad disposition; surly

c)

authenticate by someone empowered to witness signatures

d)

take the work or an idea of someone else and pass it off as one's own

18.

Define Omnipotent

a)

lacking social polish; unsophisticated and socially awkward

b)

noisy, energetic, and cheerful; rowdy

c)

seize and take control without authority

d)

having unlimited power

19.

Define Plagiarize

a)

take the work or an idea of someone else and pass it off as one's own

b)

the ability to make good judgments and quick decisions; shrewdness shown by keen insight

c)

having a bad disposition; surly

d)

divide voting districts unfairly and to one's advantage

20.

Define Usurp

a)

noisy, energetic, and cheerful; rowdy

b)

seize and take control without authority

c)

lacking social polish; unsophisticated and socially awkward

d)

bend the knees and bow in a servile manner; act in an excessively subservient manner

21.

Define Accentuate

a)

stress or single out as important

b)

call to remembrance; recall and show respect for (someone or something)

c)

extremely impressive in strength or excellence

d)

drawing a conclusion on the basis of circumstantial evidence; an educated guess based on given information

22.

Define Bamboozle

a)

make known to the public information previously kept secret

b)

conceal one's true motives from someone; fool or cheat (someone)

c)

pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not have

d)

brief and to the point

23.

Define Commemorate

a)

drawing a conclusion on the basis of circumstantial evidence; an educated guess based on given information

b)

make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust

c)

call to remembrance; recall and show respect for (someone or something)

d)

extremely impressive in strength or excellence

24.

Define Divulge

a)

state of uncertainty in a choice between unfavorable options

b)

brief and to the point

c)

pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not have

d)

make known to the public information previously kept secret

25.

Define Formidable

a)

extremely impressive in strength or excellence

b)

drawing a conclusion on the basis of circumstantial evidence; an educated guess based on given information

c)

make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust

d)

stress or single out as important

26.

Define Hypocrisy

a)

brief and to the point

b)

pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not have

c)

state of uncertainty in a choice between unfavorable options

d)

conceal one's true motives from someone; fool or cheat (someone)

27.

Define Inference

a)

stress or single out as important

b)

call to remembrance; recall and show respect for (someone or something)

c)

drawing a conclusion on the basis of circumstantial evidence; an educated guess based on given information

d)

make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust

28.

Define Laconic

a)

conceal one's true motives from someone; fool or cheat (someone)

b)

make known to the public information previously kept secret

c)

state of uncertainty in a choice between unfavorable options

d)

brief and to the point

29.

Define Pulverize

a)

make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust

b)

stress or single out as important

c)

call to remembrance; recall and show respect for (someone or something)

d)

extremely impressive in strength or excellence

30.

Define Quandary

a)

make known to the public information previously kept secret

b)

state of uncertainty in a choice between unfavorable options

c)

conceal one's true motives from someone; fool or cheat (someone)

d)

pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not have

31.

Define Acquiesce

a)

agree or express agreement

b)

lucky charm

c)

express the same message in different words

d)

having or displaying a friendly and pleasant manner

32.

Define Amiable

a)

understanding and entering into another's feelings

b)

having or displaying a friendly and pleasant manner

c)

agree or express agreement

d)

lucky charm

33.

Define Candor

a)

generally incompetent and ineffectual

b)

cause to do through pressure or necessity

c)

the quality of being honest and straightforward

d)

unnecessary and unwarranted

34.

Define Coerce

a)

the quality of being honest and straightforward

b)

generally incompetent and ineffectual

c)

having or showing profound knowledge

d)

cause to do through pressure or necessity

35.

Define Empathy

a)

understanding and entering into another's feelings

b)

agree or express agreement

c)

lucky charm

d)

express the same message in different words

36.

Define Erudite

a)

generally incompetent and ineffectual

b)

having or showing profound knowledge

c)

the quality of being honest and straightforward

d)

unnecessary and unwarranted

37.

Define Gratuitous

a)

the quality of being honest and straightforward

b)

unnecessary and unwarranted

c)

cause to do through pressure or necessity

d)

having or showing profound knowledge

38.

Define Inept

a)

having or showing profound knowledge

b)

cause to do through pressure or necessity

c)

generally incompetent and ineffectual

d)

unnecessary and unwarranted

39.

Define Paraphrase

a)

agree or express agreement

b)

understanding and entering into another's feelings

c)

having or displaying a friendly and pleasant manner

d)

express the same message in different words

40.

Define Talisman

a)

lucky charm

b)

express the same message in different words

c)

having or displaying a friendly and pleasant manner

d)

understanding and entering into another's feelings