WorksheetsPersepolis Vocabulary
Total questions: 38
Worksheet time: 19mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What part of speech is fanatics?
a)
noun
b)
adjective
c)
verb
2.
What parts of speech is degenerate?
a)
noun
b)
adjective
c)
verb
3.
What part of speech is clandestine?
a)
verb
b)
noun
c)
adjective
4.
What part of speech is denounce?
a)
noun
b)
verb
c)
adjective
5.
What part of speech is belligerent?
a)
adjective
b)
noun
c)
verb
6.
What word means moral or cultural decline as characterized by excessive indulgence in pleasure or luxury?
a)
decadence
b)
celestial
c)
prophet
d)
fanatics
7.
What word means belonging or relating to heaven or supremely good?
a)
decadence
b)
celestial
c)
prophet
d)
fanatics
8.
What words means a person regarded as an inspired teacher or proclaimer of the will of God?
a)
decadence
b)
celestial
c)
prophet
d)
fanatics
9.
What words meansa person filled with excessive and single-minded zeal, especially for an extreme religious or political cause?
a)
decadence
b)
celestial
c)
prophet
d)
fanatics
10.
What word means a feeling or state of intense excitement and happiness?
a)
euphoria
b)
veritable
c)
carnage
d)
regime
11.
What words means that it is used as an intensifier, often to qualify a metaphor?
a)
euphoria
b)
veritable
c)
carnage
d)
regime
12.
What word means the killing of a large number of people?
a)
euphoria
b)
veritable
c)
carnage
d)
regime
13.
What word means a government, especially an authoritarian one?
a)
euphoria
b)
veritable
c)
carnage
d)
regime
14.
What words means cruel and oppressive government or rule?
a)
tyranny
b)
degenerate
c)
martyr
d)
clandestine
15.
What word means having lost the physical, mental, or moral qualities considered normal and desirable?
a)
tyranny
b)
degenerate
c)
martyr
d)
clandestine
16.
What word means a person who is killed because of their religious or other beliefs?
a)
tyranny
b)
degenerate
c)
martyr
d)
clandestine
17.
What word means an immoral or corrupt person?
a)
tyranny
b)
degenerate
c)
martyr
d)
clandestine
18.
What word means kept secret or done secretively, especially because illicit (illegal/dangerous)
a)
tyranny
b)
degenerate
c)
martyr
d)
clandestine
19.
What word means a corpse or a dead body?
a)
imperialists
b)
dialectic
c)
cyanide
d)
cadaver
20.
What word means extremely toxic poison?
a)
imperialists
b)
dialectic
c)
cyanide
d)
cadaver
21.
What word meansthe art of investigating or discussing the truth of opinions?
a)
imperialists
b)
dialectic
c)
cyanide
d)
cadaver
22.
What word means a person who supports or practices imperialism (extending a country’s power)?
a)
imperialists
b)
dialectic
c)
cyanide
d)
cadaver
23.
What word means seeking or intended to subvert (undermine) an established system or institution?
a)
subversive
b)
diabolical
c)
exile
d)
proletariat
24.
What word means disgracefully bad or unpleasant or like the Devil?
a)
subversive
b)
diabolical
c)
exile
d)
proletariat
25.
What word means the state of being barred from one’s native country, typically for political or punitive reasons?
a)
subversive
b)
diabolical
c)
exile
d)
proletariat
26.
What word means workers or working-class people, regarded collectively?
a)
subversive
b)
diabolical
c)
exile
d)
proletariat
27.
What word means a forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favor of a new system?
a)
frivolities
b)
chador
c)
revolution
d)
Taliban
28.
What word means a large piece of cloth that is wrapped around the head and upper body, leaving only the face exposed, worn especially by Muslim women?
a)
frivolities
b)
chador
c)
revolution
d)
Taliban
29.
What word means a brutal, fundamentalist religious group that held power over most of Afghanistan during the late 1990’s
a)
frivolities
b)
chador
c)
revolution
d)
Taliban
30.
What word means lack of seriousness; lightheartedness?
a)
frivolities
b)
chador
c)
revolution
d)
Taliban
31.
What word means hostile and aggressive?
a)
asylum
b)
belligerent
c)
denounce
d)
intolerable
32.
What word means unable to be endured?
a)
asylum
b)
belligerent
c)
denounce
d)
intolerable
33.
What word means the protection granted by a nation to someone who has left their native country as a political refugee?
a)
asylum
b)
belligerent
c)
denounce
d)
intolerable
34.
What word means publicly declare to be wrong or evil?
a)
asylum
b)
belligerent
c)
denounce
d)
intolerable
35.
What word means a form of a religion, especially Islam or Protestant Christianity, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture?
a)
ayatollah
b)
shah
c)
permissive
d)
fundamentalism
36.
What word means a title of the former monarch of Iran?
a)
ayatollah
b)
shah
c)
permissive
d)
fundamentalism
37.
What word means allowing or characterized by great or excessive freedom of behavior?
a)
ayatollah
b)
shah
c)
permissive
d)
fundamentalism
38.
What word means a Shiite religious leader in Iran?
a)
ayatollah
b)
shah
c)
permissive
d)
fundamentalism
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