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vocab

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Paucity

a)

to devise; make-up; contrive

b)

smallness of quantity, scarcity

c)

an act or deed showing mercy or leniency

d)

lying down; reclining

2.

Brazenly

a)

an act or deed showing mercy or leniency

b)

a person who has retired to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion; hermit

c)

done, spoken, performed without special advance preparation

d)

shamelessly or impudently

3.

Atavistic

a)

reverting to or suggesting the characteristics of a remote ancestor or primitive type

b)

pertaining to the nature of something peculiar to an individual

c)

friendly; agreeable

d)

to devise; make-up; contrive

4.

Incendiary

a)

– a fellow member of a fraternity or profession; colleague

b)

making a hypocritical show of religious devotion

c)

an act or deed showing mercy or leniency

d)

tending to arouse strife, sedition; inflammatory

5.

Anchorites

a)

pertaining to the nature of something peculiar to an individual

b)

fellow member of a fraternity or profession; colleague

c)

power or ability to act or to influence people, events, decisions

d)

a person who has retired to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion; hermit

6.

Ostensibly

a)

outwardly appearing as such; professed; pretended

b)

friendly; agreeable

c)

silly or foolish

d)

a fellow member of a fraternity or profession; colleague

7.

Rapport

a)

hypocritical show of religious devotion

b)

relation; connection, especially harmonious or sympathetic

c)

d without special advance preparation

d)

smallness of quantity, scarcity

8.

Concocted

a)

not fitting into a common or familiar type; unusual

b)

shamelessly or impudently

c)

to devise; make-up; contrive

d)

done, spoken, performed without special advance preparation

9.

Liability –

a)

something disadvantageous

b)

– done, spoken, performed without special advance preparation

c)

an act or deed showing mercy or leniency

d)

lying down; reclining

10.

Leverage

a)

not fitting into a common or familiar type; unusual

b)

power or ability to act or to influence people, events, decisions

c)

done, spoken, performed without special advance preparation

d)

a person who has retired to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion; hermit

11.

Convivial

a)

smallness of quantity, scarcity

b)

lying down; reclining

c)

friendly; agreeable

12.

Clemency

a)

smallness of quantity, scarcity

b)

to devise; make-up; contrive

c)

tending to arouse strife, sedition; inflammatory

d)

an act or deed showing mercy or leniency

13.

Sanctimonious

a)

reverting to or suggesting the characteristics of a remote ancestor or primitive type

b)

silly or foolish

c)

not fitting into a common or familiar type; unusual

d)

making a hypocritical show of religious devotion

14.

Idiosyncratic

a)

pertaining to the nature of something peculiar to an individual

b)

tending to arouse strife, sedition; inflammatory

c)

to devise; make-up; contrive

d)

making a hypocritical show of religious devotion

15.

Anomalous

a)

outwardly appearing as such; professed; pretended

b)

not fitting into a common or familiar type; unusual

c)

done, spoken, performed without special advance preparation

d)

friendly; agreeable

16.

Confreres

a)

a fellow member of a fraternity or profession; colleague

b)

pertaining to one’s existence or the reason for it

c)

to devise; make-up; contrive

d)

harmonious or sympathetic

17.

Extemporaneous

a)

smallness of quantity, scarcity

b)

pertaining to the nature of something peculiar to an individual

c)

outwardly appearing as such; professed; pretended

d)

done, spoken, performed without special advance preparation

18.

Fatuous –

a)

silly or foolish

b)

lying down; reclining

c)

something disadvantageous

d)

vents, decisions

19.

Existential

a)

smallness of quantity, scarcity

b)

outwardly appearing as such; professed; pretended

c)

lying down; reclining

d)

pertaining to one’s existence or the reason for it

20.

Recumbent

a)

lying down; reclining

b)

pocritical show of religious devoti

c)

eligious devotion14. Anomalous – not fitting into a common or familiar type; unusual15. Idiosyncratic – pertaining to the nature of something peculiar to an individual

d)

tired to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion; hermit6. Ostensibly – outwardly appearing as such; professed; pretended7. Rapport – relation; connection, especially harmonious or sympathetic8. Concocted – to devise; make-up; contrive