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Week 13 AVID Vocab

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
greed; desire for wealth
a)
jettison 
b)
furtive 
c)
bastion 
d)
avarice 
2.

Excessive desire for wealth or gain; Greed

a)

Avarice

b)

Misgivings

c)

Blight

d)

Furtive

3.

A riddle or puzzle

a)

Incendiary

b)

Refute

c)

Discordant

d)

Conundrum

4.

Charitable or supported by a charity

a)

abject

b)

eleemosynary

c)

cadence

d)

edacious

5.

An ___ is an agreement to end fighting.

a)

amendment

b)

armistice

c)

autocracy

d)

alliance

6.

the instability in the air which causes the plane to go up and down erratically

a)

wreckage

b)

turbulence

c)

sarcasm

d)

hummock

7.

In The Great Gatsby, Daisy was a _____________________.

a)

labyrinth

b)

facet

c)

debutante

d)

sage

8.

Young woman making debut in high society

a)

Debutante

b)

Cynic

c)

Culpable

d)

credence

9.
We were shocked by their ____________ misuse of money that their parents had left them. 
a)
bountiful
b)
durable
c)
wanton
d)
frugal
10.
(adj.) reckless; heartless, unjustifiable; loose in morals; (n.) a spoiled, pampered person; one with low morals
a)
wanton
b)
oblique
c)
legendary
d)
antic
11.
The losing team walked ______________ off the field after losing to their rivals in the championship.
a)
sullenly
b)
indignant
c)
doggedly
d)
imploringly 
12.
Which word means: 
"bad-tempered and sulky; gloomy"
a)
sullenly
b)
imploringly 
c)
jolt
d)
eluded
13.

reduced to or fallen into partial ruin or decay, as from age, wear, or neglect

a)

reverence

b)

trounced

c)

dilapidated

d)

liable

14.

My old sweater was _________________ and full of holes,

but I found it comforting and loved to wear it.

a)

belligerent

b)

sagely

c)

inadvertently

d)

dilapidated

15.

cautiously, carefully

a)

conspicuous

b)

warily

c)

anguish

d)

infringed

16.

To never give up

a)

tenacity

b)

resilient

c)

ominous

d)

melancholy

17.

The quality of being persistent or stubborn.

a)

myopic

b)

tenacity

c)

corrosive

d)

None of the above