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HS Vocabulary 1

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Decorum

a)

A protein that produces an immune response

b)

Propriety in manners and conduct

c)

Crouch or curl up

d)

Without or almost without hope

2.

Usurp

a)

Seize and take control without authority

b)

Unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating

c)

A single complete act of breathing in and out

d)

Something done or paid in expiation of a wrong

3.

Lugubrious

a)

Bend the knees and bow in a servile manner

b)

Teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions

c)

Excessively mournful

d)

Cleverly amusing in tone

4.

Bellicose

a)

Harmful to living things

b)

Having a bad disposition; surly

c)

Shrewdness shown by keen insight

d)

Having or showing a ready disposition to fight

5.

Belie

a)

Devoid of intelligence

b)

Showing modest reserve

c)

Tending to vanish like vapor

d)

Be in contradiction with

6.

Antebellum

a)

Belonging to a period before a war

b)

The use of tricks to deceive someone

c)

Weaken physically, mentally, or morally

d)

Grant freedom to, as from slavery or servitude

7.

Expurgate

a)

Weaken physically, mentally, or morally

b)

Edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate

c)

Revoke formally

d)

Having a bad disposition; surly

8.

Gauche

a)

An Argentinian from the Pampas

b)

Lacking social polish

c)

Generally incompetent and ineffectual

d)

Overbearing pride or presumption

9.

Feckless

a)

Overbearing pride or presumption

b)

Lacking social polish

c)

Generally incompetent and ineffectual

d)

Devoid of intelligence

10.

Evanescent

a)

Grant freedom to, as from slavery or servitude

b)

Shedding foliage at the end of the growing season

c)

Tending to vanish like vapor

d)

Showing modest reserve