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Academic Vocabulary - 2

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Prince Phillip had to choose: marry the woman he loved and ______ his right to the throne, or marry Lady Fiona and inherit the crown.

a)

reprimand

b)

upbraid

c)

abdicate

d)

winnow

e)

extol

2.

If you will not do your work of your own ______, I have no choice, but to penalize you if it is not done on time.

a)

predilection

b)

coercion

c)

excursion

d)

volition

e)

infusion

3.

After sitting in the sink for several days, the dirty, food-encrusted became ______.

a)

malodorous

b)

prevalent

c)

imposing

d)

perforated

e)

emphatic

4.

Giulia soon discovered the source of the ______ smell in the room: a week-old tuna sandwich that one of the children had hidden in the closet.

a)

quaint

b)

fastidious

c)

clandestine

d)

laconic

e)

fetid

5.

After making ______ remarks to the President, the reporter was not invited to return to the White House pressroom.

a)

hospitable

b)

itinerant

c)

enterprising

d)

chivalrous

e)

irreverent

6.

With her ______ eyesight, Krystyna spotted a trio of deer on the hillside and she reduced the speed of her car.

a)

inferior

b)

keen

c)

impressionable

d)

ductile

e)

conspiratorial

7.

With a(n) ______ grin, the boy quickly slipped the candy into his pocket without his mother’s knowledge.

a)

jaundiced

b)

nefarious

c)

stereotypical

d)

sentimental

e)

impartial

8.

Her ______ display of tears at work did not impress her new boss, who felt she should try to control her emotions.

a)

maudlin

b)

meritorious

c)

precarious

d)

plausible

e)

schematic

9.

Johan argued, “If you know about a crime but don’t report it, you are ______ in that crime because you allowed it to happen.”

a)

acquitted

b)

steadfast

c)

tenuous

d)

complicit

e)

nullified

10.

10. The authorities, fearing a ______ of their power, called for a military state in the hopes of restoring order.

a)

subversion

b)

premonition

c)

predilection

d)

infusion

e)

inversion