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Vocabulary Workshop Unit 10 Quiz

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 40mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Once she got her college rejection letter, she was so _____ that she wouldn't get out of bed for a week.

a)

SINUOUS

b)

RESPITE

c)

CRESTFALLEN

d)

RETRIBUTION

2.

I felt the need to _____ my satisfaction with the meal by blogging about how delicious it was.

a)

PROFESS

b)

COVET

c)

MISNOMER

d)

BLITHE

3.

James Earl Jones' voice is so _____ that he is known as 'The Booming Brother.'

a)

LAMENTABLE

b)

CRESTFALLEN

c)

SONOROUS

d)

VANGUARD

4.

After losing both his legs and arms in a wheat thresher, the clown suffered the _____ loss of his large red nose as well, so he frowned.

a)

ASKEW

b)

SINUOUS

c)

RESPITE

d)

LAMENTABLE

5.

After my week-long bout with depression, I finally left my bed and saw in the mirror exactly how _____ I look when I don't shower or comb my hair for a week.

a)

DISHEVELED

b)

RETRIBUTION

c)

WASTREL

d)

ACQUIESCE

6.

The teacher decided we needed a(n) _____ because most of the class couldn't pay attention, so we went outside and walked around the building before we began to work again.

a)

PROFESS

b)

COVET

c)

SINUOUS

d)

RESPITE

7.

My name is Inigo Montoya, and since you have killed my father I request _____ in the form of your death, so prepare to die.

a)

VANGUARD

b)

BLITHE

c)

RETRIBUTION

d)

CONTENTIOUS

8.

Don't listen to him because he's just a(n) _____ man who likes to argue with everybody.

a)

CRESTFALLEN

b)

VANGUARD

c)

CONTENTIOUS

d)

COVET

9.

Our waiter was so _____ that I hardly got a word in edgewise.

a)

GARRULOUS

b)

EXPONENT

c)

ALLURE

d)

LAMENTABLE

10.

I believe the self-appointed title of 'ART Inspector' on your shirt is quite the _____ since you obviously have never been to ART Inspection School.

a)

SONOROUS

b)

ALLURE

c)

WASTREL

d)

MISNOMER

11.

After winning the lottery, he became such a(n) _____ that the entire $12 Million was gone within a month.

a)

WASTREL

b)

RESPITE

c)

GARRULOUS

d)

ASKEW

12.

I tried hard not to _____ his new car, but I really wish I could afford one myself!

a)

GARRULOUS

b)

DISHEVELED

c)

RESPITE

d)

COVET

13.

I was surprised to learn that she was not a(n) _____ of women's suffrage, but in all fairness, she was only two-years-old

a)

ACQUIESCE

b)

DISHEVELED

c)

EXPONENT

d)

CRESTFALLEN

14.

Since she had been wearing 80's clothes for decades, she thought she was the _____ of the new 'resurrect 1985' trend.

a)

CRESTFALLEN

b)

MISNOMER

c)

COVET

d)

VANGUARD

15.

Lombard Street in San Francisco is such a(n) _____ road that you have to drive slowly or else your car won't be able to handle all the turns. Look it up.

a)

LAMENTABLE

b)

ALLURE

c)

RESPITE

d)

SINUOUS

16.

Although her _____ attitude toward life was mostly refreshing, such a carefree and cheery demeanor was inappropriate at the funeral.

a)

MISNOMER

b)

BLITHE

c)

SINUOUS

d)

PROFESS

17.

Most criminals who get caught during a bank robbery will try to get the police to _____ to a helicopter and a plane ride out of the country but they are lucky if they don't get shot.

a)

WASTREL

b)

ACQUIESCE

c)

BLITHE

d)

DISHEVELED

18.

I thought the teenager looked silly when he wore his hat all _____, but I later learned that it was a gang symbol to walk around wearing crooked head gear.

a)

CONTENTIOUS

b)

RETRIBUTION

c)

WASTREL

d)

ASKEW

19.

The hobo fought against _____ odds to eventually rise up to CEO of a Fortune 500 company, something almost impossible to do.

a)

INSUPERABLE

b)

RESPITE

c)

COVET

d)

EXPONENT

20.

She hoped to _____ strangers into her gingerbread house by promising them a cell phone plan with unlimited minutes.

a)

RETRIBUTION

b)

ALLURE

c)

MISNOMER

d)

GARRULOUS