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English IV: Vocabulary Lessons 6-9 Review

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Cliche

a)

Imbroglio

b)

Venerate

c)

Platitude

d)

Sectarian

2.

Violent, forceful twisting

a)

Stringent

b)

Hubris

c)

Sectarian

d)

Wrenching

3.

Hackneyed; cliched; lacking interest

a)

Haughty

b)

Wrenching

c)

Trite

d)

Malinger

4.

Proud, arrogant

a)

Haughty

b)

Venerate

c)

Sanctimonious

d)

Imbroglio

5.

Narrowly confined to a particular group

a)

Sectarian

b)

Camaraderie

c)

Sanctimonious

d)

Trite

6.

Arrogance resulting from excessive pride

a)

Venerate

b)

Hubris

c)

Haughty

d)

Malinger

7.

Strict; rigorous

a)

Trite

b)

Stringent

c)

Peregrination

d)

Camaraderie

8.

False piety or righteousness

a)

Imbroglio

b)

Platitude

c)

Sanctimonious

d)

Malinger

9.

Difficult situation

a)

Hubris

b)

Sanctimonious

c)

Imbroglio

d)

Trite

10.

To pretend to be ill or injured to avoid work

a)

Impetuous

b)

Peregrination

c)

Stringent

d)

Malinger

11.

Intricate, difficult to discern; overlapping

a)

Lurid

b)

Staid

c)

Convoluted

d)

Spurious

12.

A short account or story

a)

Entreat

b)

Convoluted

c)

Cogent

d)

Anecdote

13.

Relating to the brain; intelligent

a)

Spurious

b)

Anecdote

c)

Incumbent

d)

Cerebral

14.

Angry; furious

a)

Surfeit

b)

Promulgate

c)

Livid

d)

Lurid

15.

Boorish or vulgar; surly

a)

Churlish

b)

Staid

c)

Entreat

d)

Convoluted

16.

An excessive amount

a)

Gibberish

b)

Staid

c)

Surfeit

d)

Cogent

17.

Convincing; clear reasoning

a)

Churlish

b)

Cogent

c)

Gibberish

d)

Inimical

18.

To ask or petitions for; plead

a)

Cogent

b)

Convoluted

c)

Livid

d)

Entreat

19.

Nonsense; unintelligible speech

a)

Inimical

b)

Spurious

c)

Anecdote

d)

Gibberish

20.

Adverse; hostile

a)

Incumbent

b)

Entreat

c)

Inimical

d)

Surfeit

21.

To release an accused criminal to another jurisdiction

a)

Extradite

b)

Hypocrisy

c)

Lionize

d)

Ameliorate

22.

To protest, oppose

a)

Pander

b)

Recalcitrant

c)

Renunciation

d)

Inveigh

23.

To act as a go-between; to exploit weaknesses of others

a)

Hypocrisy

b)

Pander

c)

Unwieldy

d)

Inveigh

24.

Not easily held

a)

Asperity

b)

Unwieldy

c)

Allay

d)

Ameliorate

25.

Wasteful; immoral

a)

Recalcitrant

b)

Allay

c)

Profligate

d)

Vitiate

26.

Two-faced, falseness

a)

Unimpeachable

b)

Vitiate

c)

Hypocrisy

d)

Renunciation

27.

Stubbornly resistant

a)

Unwieldy

b)

Recalcitrant

c)

Vitiate

d)

Hypocrisy

28.

Beyond doubt; unquestionable

a)

Unimpeachable

b)

Exegesis

c)

Profligate

d)

Lionize

29.

An analysis; interpretation of

a)

Inveigh

b)

Exegesis

c)

Unwieldy

d)

Pander

30.

To reduce the value of; to corrupt or debase

a)

Hypocrisy

b)

Asperity

c)

Vitiate

d)

Allay

31.

Permeating; present throughout

a)

Goad

b)

Pervasive

c)

Blithe

d)

Frenetic

32.

Something that induces sleep

a)

Soporific

b)

Provocative

c)

Corroborate

d)

Benign

33.

To make more certain, add evidence to

a)

Corroborate

b)

Culpable

c)

Blithe

d)

Indolent

34.

Blameable, responsible for

a)

Punitive

b)

Culpable

c)

Blithe

d)

Pervasive

35.

To urge, to prod

a)

Pervasive

b)

Indecorous

c)

Indolent

d)

Goad

36.

Lacking good taste; improper

a)

Punitive

b)

Provocative

c)

Recrimination

d)

Indecorous

37.

Lazy

a)

Indolent

b)

Recrimination

c)

Soporific

d)

Pervasive

38.

Carefree and light-hearted

a)

Frenetic

b)

Recrimination

c)

Culpable

d)

Blithe

39.

Punishing

a)

Bumpkin

b)

Corroborate

c)

Culpable

d)

Punitive

40.

An accusation made to counter another

a)

Toady

b)

Frenetic

c)

Provocative

d)

Recrimination