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WorksheetsVocabulary from Classic Roots #2 & 3
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 17mins
Which word means "irreverent"?
impious
pittance
sacrosanct
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)
criterion
rationale
mnemonic
Which word can mean both approval and denial of approval?
accreditation
sanction
expiation
Which word can mean the same as "divinity"?
deity
sacrament
sanctimoniousness
When people suffer from the mental disorder _____________, they may experience hallucinations and respond inappropriately to the world around them.
hypocrisy
heterodoxy
schizophrenia
Although influenza - the flu - makes a person uncomfortable, recovery is the usual __________________.
rationale
prognosis
dogma
Which word does not pertain specifically to religion?
piety
pittance
sanctity
Find the pair of words that has the same kind of relationship as this pair: theology : study ::
sacrilege : profanity
sanctity : reverence
theocracy : government
"Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my ________________" (Mahatma Gandhi).
hierarchy
sanctity
creed
"The _______________ of her face implied that she was intelligent and well read" (21).
physiognomy
prognosis
rationale
"According to U.S. law, a person's age, sex, or race cannot be a _________________ for being hired for a job" (22).
dogma
heterodoxy
criterion
Referring to a / an _____________, Harriet Beecher Stowe said, "No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man."
theologian
hypocrite
atheist
Which word refers specifically to memory?
dogmatic
mnemonic
schizophrenic
When construction of a new stadium falls behind schedule, townspeople can expect ________________ building activity to meet the deadline.
frenetic
dogmatic
schizophrenic
Charlie Chaplin's classic comedy Modern Times captures the _______________ pace of work on assembly lines.
mnemonic
hypocritical
frenetic
"Please type your essays! Your ___________________ handwriting obscures your good ideas" (13).
hierarchic
hieroglyphic
impious
"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).
atheistic
agnostic
dogmatic
"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).
rationalized
arraigned
dogmatized
"Sanctus" is the Latin root for ___________________.
"holy"
"sacred"
"supernatural"
"During the uprising of peasants, the royal family took ________ in an abbey" (12).
sanctity
hierarchy
sanctuary
