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Vocab 11 Words 12th Grade

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

DEF: relating to ordinary people

a)

sybaritic

b)

disingenuous

c)

internecine

d)

demotic

e)

dogged

2.

DEF: a gradual increase in intensity, force, or volume

a)

crescendo

b)

nexus

c)

peregrination

d)

bulwark

e)

cortege

3.

REVIEW WORD DEF: indirect; roundabout

a)

interminable

b)

stygian

c)

circuitous

d)

frangible

e)

nonchalant

4.

DEF: an entertainment producer or manager

a)

cortege

b)

impresario

c)

bumpkin

d)

canard

e)

exegesis

5.

DEF: a vague bodily or emotional discomfort or uneasiness

a)

hubris

b)

solecism

c)

recrimination

d)

asperity

e)

malaise

6.

DEF: a deliberately misleading story

a)

bulwark

b)

consternation

c)

impresario

d)

canard

e)

maxim

7.

DEF: a deviation or error in speech, manners, or deeds

a)

solecism

b)

preamble

c)

malaise

d)

renunciation

e)

hubris

8.

DEF: uncompromising; refusing to moderate

a)

coeval

b)

intransigent

c)

quotidian

d)

wont

e)

demotic

9.

REVIEW WORD DEF: to corrupt morally; to contaminate

a)

depredate

b)

entreat

c)

vitiate

d)

corroborate

e)

ameliorate

10.

DEF: the history of a word; the study of word origins

a)

platitude

b)

gibberish

c)

anecdote

d)

solecism

e)

etymology

11.

DEF: unrelenting; persistent

a)

disingenuous

b)

polemical

c)

dogged

d)

archaic

e)

patronizing

12.

REVIEW WORD DEF: someone who participates in a conversation

a)

majordomo

b)

interlocutor

c)

impresario

d)

brigand

e)

canard

13.

DEF: likely

a)

convoluted

b)

indolent

c)

simian

d)

otiose

e)

wont

14.

REVIEW WORD DEF: impossible to defend or justify

a)

contemptuous

b)

peremptory

c)

untenable

d)

procrustean

e)

intransigent

15.

DEF: required; necessary

a)

requisite

b)

hortatory

c)

haughty

d)

provocative

e)

dilatory

16.

DEF: related to or resembling an ape or monkey

a)

sectarian

b)

aprocryphal

c)

demotic

d)

internecine

e)

simian

17.

DEF: a group of attendants; a retinue

a)

iniquity

b)

cortege

c)

vestige

d)

atelier

e)

donnybrook

18.

REVIEW WORD DEF: wildly excited

a)

indolent

b)

dogged

c)

blithe

d)

frenetic

e)

untenable

19.

DEF: insincere; calculating

a)

disingenuous

b)

peremptory

c)

perspicacious

d)

zealous

e)

interminable

20.

DEF: a defensive wall or embankment

a)

coterie

b)

imbroglio

c)

bulwark

d)

anomaly

e)

platitude