WorksheetsVocab Review #3 (English III) Fall 2021
Total questions: 31
Worksheet time: 16mins
If something is considered of little worth or importance, it is ____.
Emergent
Inconsequential
Decimate
Capacious
If astronomers forecast a tremendous meteor shower, it might turn out to be no more than space junk, too (a) to record.
Truly, your ____ , or ability to bounce back, is not just admirable, but foolhardy, some might say; who else could have survived an attack by a rabid toucan and then gone on to become a world-renowned bird breeder?
Animosity
Precipice
Antipathy
Resilience
Runners who fall during a marathon only to pop back up and dash through the finish line show some serious (a) .
Assume something or present it as a fact and you ____ it.
Decimate
Emerge
Odious
Postulate
Physicists (a) the existence of parallel universes, which is a little mind-blowing.
Animosity means:
Impeity
Hostility
Intesity
Humanity
If your (supposed) best buddy embarrasses you in front of a big crowd, your friendship could turn into (a) .
To ____ is to kill in large numbers
Postulate
Precipate
Anitpathy
Decimate
Decimate means to:
Placate
Exacerbate
Annihilate
Simulate
Modern usage gives the word (a) its "drastically reduced" meaning, but the verb can also be used to mean "to wipe out" or "to eliminate."
Antipathy means:
Pretense
Doubt
Privilege
Dislike
An (a) is a deep-seated dislike of something or someone.
If you have an ____ talent for science, your teacher might bump you up to an advanced science class.
Decimate
Emergent
Odious
Capacious
(a) is an adjective that describes something that is emerging, or suddenly coming into existence.
The opposite of capacious is:
brittle
little
tall
old
When something is really big and holds a lot it is (a) .
If something is ____, it's hateful.
Capacious
Odious
Antipathy
Inconsequential
If you become a historian of slavery, you'll learn all the details of that (a) trade.
Cartoon characters often end up on a ____ , the edge of a steep cliff, where their chubby toes curl and cling as they totter and eventually fall, making a hole in the ground below and getting up again.
Capacious
Odious
Antipathy
Precipice
Which word best describes this image?
(a)
in-kon-si-kwen-shuhl
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ri-zil-yuhns
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pos-chuh-leyt
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an-uh-mos-i-tee
(a)
des-uh-meyt
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an-tip-uh-thee
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ih-mur-juhnt
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kuh-pey-shuhs
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oh-dee-uhs
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pres-uh-pis
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