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12th Grade Vocabulary Lesson 9

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

DEF: full and rich in sound (in speech)

a)

puerile

b)

orotund

c)

churlish

d)

provocative

e)

soporific

2.

DEF: next to last

a)

incumbent

b)

quotidian

c)

pervasive

d)

indecorous

e)

penultimate

3.

REVIEW WORD DEF: wasteful and immoral

a)

frenetic

b)

lurid

c)

benign

d)

profligate

e)

inimical

4.

DEF: beneficial; favorable

a)

benign

b)

culpable

c)

putrid

d)

internecine

e)

orotund

5.

DEF: tending to excite or stimulate

a)

quotidian

b)

soporific

c)

provocative

d)

blithe

e)

stringent

6.

REVIEW WORD DEF: to relieve; to alleviate

a)

expiate

b)

corroborate

c)

pander

d)

allay

e)

comprise

7.

DEF: lacking good taste; improper

a)

hortatory

b)

indecorous

c)

cogent

d)

penultimate

e)

dilatory

8.

REVIEW WORD DEF: to claim for oneself without any right or authority

a)

lionize

b)

inveigh

c)

promulgate

d)

corroborate

e)

arrogate

9.

DEF: carefree and lighthearted

a)

procrustean

b)

frangible

c)

blithe

d)

wrenching

e)

zealous

10.

DEF: to strengthen by adding evidence

a)

corroborate

b)

arrogate

c)

desiccate

d)

truncate

e)

entreat

11.

DEF: a person who flatters for personal gain

a)

maxim

b)

bumpkin

c)

anomaly

d)

toady

e)

coterie

12.

REVIEW WORD DEF: a long, repetitive, or dull account

a)

exegesis

b)

platitude

c)

moratorium

d)

toady

e)

litany

13.

DEF: encouraging; inciting

a)

hortatory

b)

dilatory

c)

pervasive

d)

indecorous

e)

vitriolic

14.

DEF: wildly excited

a)

sectarian

b)

orotund

c)

frenetic

d)

haughty

e)

pervasive

15.

REVIEW WORD DEF: tending to delay or procrastinate

a)

peremptory

b)

apocryphal

c)

internecine

d)

dilatory

e)

archaic

16.

DEF: deserving blame or condemnation; guilty

a)

rife

b)

culpable

c)

zealous

d)

benign

e)

procrustean

17.

DEF: tending to induce sleep

a)

churlish

b)

recalcitrant

c)

penultimate

d)

coeval

e)

soporific

18.

DEF: an unsophisticated, awkward person

a)

bumpkin

b)

scullion

c)

imbroglio

d)

toady

e)

exegesis

19.

DEF: a counteraccusation

a)

peregrination

b)

recrimination

c)

atelier

d)

renunciation

e)

consternation

20.

DEF: permeating; spreading throughout

a)

contemptuous

b)

stygian

c)

pervasive

d)

blithe

e)

indecorous