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Vocabulary from Classic Roots #2 & 3

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which word means "irreverent"?

a)

impious

b)

pittance

c)

sacrosanct

2.

Which word correctly fills this blank: '"Thirty days has September, April, June, and November" is a _____________ device for remembering the number of days in each month' (2.3)

a)

criterion

b)

rationale

c)

mnemonic

3.

Which word can mean both approval and denial of approval?

a)

accreditation

b)

sanction

c)

expiation

4.

Which word can mean the same as "divinity"?

a)

deity

b)

sacrament

c)

sanctimoniousness

5.

When people suffer from the mental disorder _____________, they may experience hallucinations and respond inappropriately to the world around them.

a)

hypocrisy

b)

heterodoxy

c)

schizophrenia

6.

Although influenza - the flu - makes a person uncomfortable, recovery is the usual __________________.

a)

rationale

b)

prognosis

c)

dogma

7.

Which word does not pertain specifically to religion?

a)

piety

b)

pittance

c)

sanctity

8.

Find the pair of words that has the same kind of relationship as this pair: theology : study ::

a)

sacrilege : profanity

b)

sanctity : reverence

c)

theocracy : government

9.

"Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my ________________" (Mahatma Gandhi).

a)

hierarchy

b)

sanctity

c)

creed

10.

"The _______________ of her face implied that she was intelligent and well read" (21).

a)

physiognomy

b)

prognosis

c)

rationale

11.

"According to U.S. law, a person's age, sex, or race cannot be a _________________ for being hired for a job" (22).

a)

dogma

b)

heterodoxy

c)

criterion

12.

Referring to a / an _____________, Harriet Beecher Stowe said, "No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man."

a)

theologian

b)

hypocrite

c)

atheist

13.

Which word refers specifically to memory?

a)

dogmatic

b)

mnemonic

c)

schizophrenic

14.

When construction of a new stadium falls behind schedule, townspeople can expect ________________ building activity to meet the deadline.

a)

frenetic

b)

dogmatic

c)

schizophrenic

15.

Charlie Chaplin's classic comedy Modern Times captures the _______________ pace of work on assembly lines.

a)

mnemonic

b)

hypocritical

c)

frenetic

16.

"Please type your essays! Your ___________________ handwriting obscures your good ideas" (13).

a)

hierarchic

b)

hieroglyphic

c)

impious

17.

"The children of Huxley's Brave New World are conditioned by having _________________ statements like 'Spending is better than mending' repeated to them while they sleep" (21).

a)

atheistic

b)

agnostic

c)

dogmatic

18.

"In 1850 the Harvard Medical School _______________ its rejection of Harriot K. Hunt saying 'no woman of true delicacy' would wish to learn what they taught and they did not wish to be in the company of an immodest woman" (24).

a)

rationalized

b)

arraigned

c)

dogmatized

19.

"Sanctus" is the Latin root for ___________________.

a)

"holy"

b)

"sacred"

c)

"supernatural"

20.

"During the uprising of peasants, the royal family took ________ in an abbey" (12).

a)

sanctity

b)

hierarchy

c)

sanctuary