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Wordly Wise 12 Vocabulary Lesson 2

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

(Antonym) Ross claimed she didn't mean to cast aspersions when she described Russ's music as tedious (long/tiresome) and predictable.

a)

Apothegms

b)

Impressions

c)

Compliments

d)

Insults

2.

(Antonym) The professor's coadjutor was responsible for grading the students' assignments.

a)

Intern

b)

Assistant

c)

Student

d)

Boss

3.

The court-ordered DNA test _______ the suspect of the assault charges.

a)

Invoked

b)

Absolved

c)

Immured

d)

Coalesced

4.

Rapunzel let down her long hair to escape from the high tower in which she was ________.

a)

Delineated

b)

Declaimed

c)

Absolved

d)

Immured

5.

Uncle Willy is fond of guiding his nieces and nephews with colorful apothegms.

a)

Jokes

b)

Fables

c)

Rules

d)

Sayings

6.

(Antonym) With extra credits at the end of the semester, Jose was absolved from the need to go to summer school.

a)

Doomed

b)

Freed

c)

Depressed

d)

Panicked

7.

The architect Norman Foster __________ his idea for Bilbao's subway entrances, saving the details until later.

a)

Coalesced

b)

Absolved

c)

Adumbrated

d)

Immured

8.

Yugoslavia's collapse led to _________ struggles among its former components.

a)

Internecine

b)

Germane

c)

Bibulous

d)

Apothegm

9.

It is __________ that a person who carries this gene will get this disease.

a)

Absolved

b)

Congenital

c)

Ineluctable

d)

Internecine

10.

The president can _________ emergency powers to deal with a serious crisis.

a)

Internecine

b)

Adumbrate

c)

Invoke

d)

Absolve

11.

The __________ of the automobile actually did look like a horseless carriage.

a)

Prototype

b)

Demagogue

c)

Protagonist

d)

Utopia

12.

Presidential elections are a _________ event in the United States.

a)

Covert

b)

Hiatus

c)

Internecine

d)

Quadrennial

13.

Susan's conversation leaned more toward gossip than world news and ideas, since she was too interested in peoples lives to restrict herself to questions germane to current events.

a)

Pertinent

b)

Offensive

c)

Central

d)

Oblivious

14.

The child's beautifully shaped hands are __________ characteristics eident even during infancy.

a)

Obdurate

b)

Adumbrate

c)

Congenital

d)

Germane

15.

_________ is a lively spirit with a distinctive style.

a)

Ineluctable

b)

Demagogue

c)

Elan

d)

Germane

16.

(Antonym) Dr. Dunn looked forward to the summer hiatus in her teaching schedule.

a)

Break

b)

Rush

c)

Continuation

d)

Change