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WorksheetsVocabulary Unit 12 - Quiz (20 Words)
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 23mins
a strong movement to advance a cause or idea; to campaign, work vigorously
crusade
deface
nauseate
pivotal
to injure or destroy the surface or appearance of; to damage the value, influence, or effect of; to face down, outshine
recipient
deface
crusade
nauseate
to make sick to the stomach; to fill with disgust
pivotal
recipient
nauseate
crusade
vitally important, essential
deface
nauseate
recipient
pivotal
one who receives; receiving; able or willing to receive
recipient
nauseate
deface
crusade
Which word best completes the sentence? The __________ for women's right to vote lasted more than 70 years.
pivotal
recipient
crusade
deface
Which word best completes the sentence?
The principal threatened to expel any student who __________ school property.
pivotal
recipient
defaces
nauseates
Which word best completes the sentence? Eric's terrible driving around the curvy mountainside __________ Joy to the point he had to pull over so she could vomit.
crusade
defaced
pivotal
nauseated
Which word best completes the sentence? The eyewitness's testimony proved to be the __________ point of the case leading to a guilty verdict.
pivotal
crusade
recipient
deface
Which word best completes the sentence? Dr. Seuss was the __________ of a special Pulitzer Prize for his contribution to the education and entertainment of America's children.
recipient
pivotal
crusade
nauseate
Which word is a SYNONYM for nauseate?
sicken
disperse
assemble
deface
Which word is a SYNONYM for recipient?
kindness
receiver
pivotal
meaningless
Which word is a SYNONYM for pivotal?
crucial
minor
understudy
crusade
Which word is an ANTONYM for caustic?
mild
messy
burning
fallacy
Which word is an ANTONYM for teem?
welcome
in short supply of
crowded
embargo
able to burn or eat away by chemical action; biting, sarcastic
caustic
embargo
ruse
fallacy
an order forbidding the trade in or movement of commercial goods; any restraint or hindrance; to forbid to enter or leave port; to forbid trade with
teem
fallacy
caustic
embargo
a false notion or belief; an error in thinking
fallacy
ruse
teem
caustic
an action designed to confuse or mislead, a trick
fallacy
embargo
ruse
teem
to give as a gift; to provide with lodgings
bestow
tenet
levity
tractible
to become filled to overflowing; to be present in large quantities
caustic
embargo
teem
fallacy
Which word best completes the sentence? The battery acid was so __________ that it ate away at the floor and left a gapping hole through which you could see the road.
fallacy
ruse
caustic
nauseate
Which word best completes the sentence? For many years the United States and Cuba had a trade __________; Cuba could not send products to the U.S. nor could they receive products from the U.S.
embargo
recipient
ruse
crusade
Which word best completes the sentence? The __________ that the Earth was flat was disproved when the Spanish sailed around the world.
caustic
fallacy
crusade
teem
Which word best completes the sentence? Billy Bob set up an elaborate __________ in order to surprise his wife Jenny with a birthday party.
teem
crusade
ruse
recipient
Which word best completes the sentence? The wildlife preserve stocked the stream with trout in hopes that it would be __________ with fish in time for the tourist fishing season.
defacing
nauseating
caustic
teeming
a lack of seriousness or earnestness, especially about things that should be treated with respect; buoyancy, lightness in weight
voracious
levity
bestow
tenet
an opinion, belief, or principle held to be true
bestow
tenet
levity
tractable
easily managed, easy to deal with; easily wrought, malleable
voracious
bestow
tractable
levity
having a huge appetite, greedy, ravenous; excessively eager
voracious
bestow
tenet
tractable
Which word best completes the sentence? In the fairytale "Sleeping Beauty," fairies __________ gifts of beauty and grace upon the infant princess.
embargo
crusade
bestow
teem
Which word best completes the sentence? The TV host uses __________ to make fun of people who have been in the news.
tenet
embargo
levity
deface
Which word best completes the sentence? One of the basic __________ of a good boss is that employees should be rewarded for their good work.
ruses
fallacies
levities
tenets
Which word best completes the sentence? As a teenager, Jimbob had such a __________ appetite that thirty minutes after eating a large dinner, he would be looking in the refrigerator for more to eat.
pivotal
teeming
voracious
caustic
Which word best completes the sentence? Milk cows are __________ and will follow the farmer into the barn without much force.
tractable
pivotal
caustic
voracious
to resign, formally give up an office or a duty; to disown, discard
capacious
abdicate
mendicant
negate
able to hold much, roomy
ungainly
abdicate
mendicant
capacious
to nullify, deny, bring to nothing
capacious
mendicant
negate
abdicate
clumsy, awkward; unwieldy
ungainly
abdicate
capacious
mendicant
beggar; depending on begging for a living
mendicant
negate
ungainly
abdicate
Which word best completes the sentence? The Duke of Windsor __________ the English throne, deciding his love for a poor girl was more important than his duty.
crusader
defaced
teemed
abdicated
Which word best completes the sentence? In New York City, a __________ apartment is extremely expensive because of all the extra space.
capacious
tractable
mendicant
caustic
Which word best completes the sentence? My grandfather lived a __________ existence after illness forced him to rely on the kindness of relatives to survive.
caustic
tractable
mendicant
voracious
Which word best completes the sentence? Pure oxygen can often __________ the effects of breathing in poisonous gas.
teem
negate
abdicate
crusade
Which word best completes the sentence? The freshman quarterback began the season as an __________ recruit, but by the last game, he performed like a professional athlete.
recipient
voracious
caustic
ungainly
