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**10th Grade Vocab Quiz Term 2

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

very harmful

a)

noxious

b)

quaff

c)

vacuous

d)

placid

2.

to cheat someone out of money, to scam

a)

bilk

b)

debacle

c)

myopic

d)

contrite

3.

well-supplied with something

a)

replete

b)

inept

c)

cajole

d)

affinity

4.

profane talk about holy or sacred things

a)

blasphemy

b)

cantankerous

c)

acrimony

d)

kismet

5.

formal release form guilt or punishment

a)

absolution

b)

ennui

c)

renown

d)

bemoan

6.

argumentative and uncooperative

a)

cantankerous

b)

altruism

c)

fobile

d)

implacible

7.

to verbally rip apart

a)

deride

b)

futile

c)

abhor

d)

contrite

8.

a disaster

a)

debacle

b)

deride

c)

slipshod

d)

haughty

9.

excessive or foolish boldness

a)

temerity

b)

sojourn

c)

augment

d)

foible

10.

dissatisfaction or exhaustion caused by boredom

a)

ennui

b)

debacle

c)

stoic

d)

balk

11.

restrain oneself from doing or enjoying something

a)

abstain

b)

vacillate

c)

anodyne

d)

nuance

12.

arrogantly superior

a)

haughty

b)

noxious

c)

tenacious

d)

affinity

13.

not letting go of or giving up on something one holds dear

a)

tenacious

b)

curmudgeon

c)

gregarious

d)

persnikety

14.

accept something reluctantly, but without protest

a)

acquiesce

b)

anodyne

c)

foible

d)

absolution

15.

publicly ridicule

a)

lampoon

b)

abstain

c)

altruism

d)

galvanize

16.

a bad-tempered person

a)

curmudgeon

b)

cantankerous

c)

insipid

d)

inept

17.

a temporary stay

a)

sojourn

b)

atrophy

c)

pernicious

d)

facetious

18.

fond of company

a)

gregarious

b)

exonerate

c)

blasphemy

d)

harbinger

19.

to increase

a)

augument

b)

inept

c)

farcical

d)

drivel

20.

advancing in a gradual way to cause harm

a)

insidious

b)

solace

c)

insipid

d)

precursor

21.

to cause or give rise to

a)

engender

b)

zenith

c)

erudite

d)

intrepid

22.

a subtle difference

a)

nuance

b)

mitigate

c)

depravity

d)

kismet

23.

not openly displayed

a)

covert

b)

palpable

c)

charlatan

d)

mitigate

24.

the state of being known and celebrated by many

a)

renown

b)

reticent

c)

egalitarian

d)

anodyne

25.

a completely different line of thought

a)

tangent

b)

non sequitur

c)

jingoistic

d)

harangue