WorksheetsHigh Level Vocabulary
Total questions: 48
Worksheet time: 24mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
deviating from the ordinary, usual, or normal type; exceptional; abnormal
a)
aberrant
b)
alacrity
c)
exigent
d)
castigate
e)
exonerate
2.
cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness
a)
alacrity
b)
assuage
c)
didactic
d)
inveigle
e)
prodigious
3.
to soothe, calm, or mollify: to make milder or less severe
a)
assuage
b)
censure
c)
inured
d)
acumen
e)
prodigal
4.
strong or vehement expression of disapproval
a)
censure
b)
disparate
c)
obviate
d)
harangue
e)
acumen
5.
complicated; intricately involved
a)
convoluted
b)
lucid
c)
ebullience
d)
urbane
e)
flout
6.
distinct in kind; essentially different; dissimilar
a)
disparate
b)
obviate
c)
incipient
d)
germane
e)
polemical
7.
to deprive of force or strength; destroy the vigor of; weaken.
a)
enervate
b)
aberrant
c)
pernicious
d)
implacable
e)
pervasive
8.
requiring immediate action or aid; urgent; pressing.
a)
exigent
b)
lucid
c)
exonerate
d)
pedantic
e)
specious
9.
to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate
a)
inured
b)
exigent
c)
incipient
d)
implacable
e)
proclivity
10.
easily understood; completely intelligible or comprehensible
a)
lucid
b)
dogmatic
c)
inveigle
d)
placate
e)
prosaic
11.
to anticipate and prevent or eliminate (difficulties, disadvantages, etc.) by effective measures; render unnecessary
a)
obviate
b)
ebullience
c)
exacerbate
d)
polemical
e)
probity
12.
not direct or straightforward, as in procedure or speech; circuitous
a)
tortuous
b)
convoluted
c)
pedantic
d)
reverent
e)
pervasive
13.
to criticize or reprimand severely.
a)
castigate
b)
tortuous
c)
prodigal
d)
specious
e)
subtle
14.
inclined to teach or lecture others too much
a)
didactic
b)
alacrity
c)
pernicious
d)
germane
e)
placate
15.
asserting opinions in a doctrinaire or arrogant manner; opinionated in the absence of evidence and unwilling to change one's mind
a)
dogmatic
b)
disparate
c)
exigent
d)
exonerate
e)
acumen
16.
high spirits; exhilaration; exuberance.
a)
ebullience
b)
enervate
c)
pernicious
d)
reverent
e)
trenchant
17.
to clear, as of an accusation; free from guilt or blame; exculpate
a)
exonerate
b)
censure
c)
harangue
d)
flout
e)
ambiguous
18.
a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe –or– a long, passionate, and vehement speech, especially one delivered before a public gathering.
a)
harangue
b)
censure
c)
obviate
d)
polemical
e)
specious
19.
beginning to exist or appear; in an initial stage
a)
incipient
b)
inured
c)
pedantic
d)
flout
e)
attribute
20.
to entice, lure, or ensnare by flattery or artful talk or inducements (usually followed by into)
a)
inveigle
b)
castigate
c)
prodigal
d)
inimical
e)
constitute
21.
causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious or hurtful in a way that is not immediately apparent
a)
pernicious
b)
didactic
c)
pedantic
d)
inimical
e)
deviate
22.
extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.
a)
prodigious
b)
obviate
c)
placate
d)
pervasive
e)
subordinate
23.
having the polish and suavity regarded as characteristic of sophisticated social life in major cities
a)
urbane
b)
aberrant
c)
prodigious
d)
germane
e)
implacable
24.
keen insight; shrewdness
a)
acumen
b)
dogmatic
c)
reverent
d)
probity
e)
subordinate
25.
to increase the severity, bitterness, or violence of (disease, ill feeling, etc.); aggravate.
a)
exacerbate
b)
disparate
c)
urbane
d)
proclivity
e)
attribute
26.
closely or significantly related; relevant; pertinent
a)
germane
b)
alacrity
c)
specious
d)
quixotic
e)
discrete
27.
not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified; not to be persuaded, moved, or affected by entreaties
a)
implacable
b)
tortuous
c)
inimical
d)
subtle
e)
deviate
28.
overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, especially in teaching.
a)
pedantic
b)
tortuous
c)
incipient
d)
pernicious
e)
trenchant
29.
to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures
a)
placate
b)
ebullience
c)
prodigious
d)
proclivity
e)
discrete
30.
a controversial argument or a person who argues in opposition to another; argumentative.
a)
polemical
b)
assuage
c)
exonerate
d)
prosaic
e)
attribute
31.
wastefully or recklessly extravagant
a)
prodigal
b)
castigate
c)
harangue
d)
prosaic
e)
subordinate
32.
feeling, exhibiting, or characterized by reverence; deeply respectful
a)
reverent
b)
disparate
c)
inveigle
d)
quixotic
e)
constitute
33.
apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible
a)
specious
b)
lucid
c)
urbane
d)
ambiguous
e)
subordinate
34.
to treat with disdain, scorn, or contempt; scoff at; mock
a)
flout
b)
aberrant
c)
inured
d)
pervasive
e)
discrete
35.
adverse in tendency or effect; unfavorable; harmful
a)
inimical
b)
ebullience
c)
germane
d)
placate
e)
constitute
36.
spread throughout (typically in a negative way)
a)
pervasive
b)
censure
c)
exacerbate
d)
trenchant
e)
deviate
37.
integrity and uprightness; honesty.
a)
probity
b)
exigent
c)
tortuous
d)
polemical
e)
proclivity
38.
natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition
a)
proclivity
b)
didactic
c)
inveigle
d)
subtle
e)
deviate
39.
commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative
a)
prosaic
b)
assuage
c)
acumen
d)
probity
e)
discrete
40.
extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; visionary, impractical, or impracticable.
a)
quixotic
b)
enervate
c)
exacerbate
d)
prodigal
e)
constitute
41.
requiring mental acuteness, penetration, or discernment to comprehend
a)
subtle
b)
alacrity
c)
inured
d)
didactic
e)
prodigious
42.
incisive or keen, as language or a person; caustic; cutting
a)
trenchant
b)
convoluted
c)
implacable
d)
flout
e)
attribute
43.
open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations; equivocal
a)
ambiguous
b)
enervate
c)
castigate
d)
dogmatic
e)
exacerbate
44.
to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to)
a)
attribute
b)
convoluted
c)
enervate
d)
urbane
e)
trenchant
45.
to compose from individual parts; to form
a)
constitute
b)
aberrant
c)
incipient
d)
quixotic
e)
ambiguous
46.
to depart or swerve, as from a procedure, course of action, or acceptable norm.
a)
deviate
b)
lucid
c)
dogmatic
d)
inimical
e)
probity
47.
consisting of or characterized by distinct or individual parts; discontinuous.
a)
discrete
b)
convoluted
c)
reverent
d)
prosaic
e)
subtle
48.
of less importance; secondary.
a)
subordinate
b)
assuage
c)
harangue
d)
quixotic
e)
ambiguous
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