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Unit 3 Vocab Study Guide

Total questions: 69

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What word means consisting of many different and connected parts?

a)

complex

b)

hydrosphere

c)

plague

d)

flutter

2.

What word means having or showing the capacity to become or develop into something in the future?

a)

plague

b)

prominent

c)

potential

d)

stratosphere

3.

What word means depend on with full trust or confidence?

a)

rely

b)

recede

c)

valid

d)

administration

4.

What word means a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances?

a)

stress

b)

convivial

c)

pendulum

d)

muse

5.

What word means (of an argument or point) having a sound basis in logic or fact; reasonable or cogent?

a)

radiation

b)

valid

c)

idle

d)

forlorn

6.

What word means (of an atmosphere or event) friendly, lively, and enjoyable?

a)

colonize

b)

convivial

c)

habitat

d)

hemisphere

7.

What word means (of a person) avoiding work; lazy?

a)

dubious

b)

idle

c)

crucial

d)

entail

8.

What word means pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely?

a)

forlorn

b)

erupt

c)

flutter

d)

infinitely

9.

What word means go or move back or further away from a previous position?

a)

recede

b)

idle

c)

complex

d)

rely

10.

What word means used to refer to the tendency of a situation to oscillate between one extreme and another?

a)

Idle

b)

hydrosphere

c)

dubious

d)

pendulum

11.

What word means a person or personified force who is the source of inspiration for a creative artist?

a)

muse

b)

stratoshpere

c)

entail

d)

prominent

12.

What word means the emission of energy as electromagnetic waves or as moving subatomic particles, especially high-energy particles which cause ionization?

a)

erupt

b)

infinitely

c)

pendant

d)

radiation

13.

What word means (of a country or its citizens) send a group of settlers to (a place) and establish political control over it?

a)

colonize

b)

plague

c)

pendulum

d)

potential

14.

What word means relating to or produced by the internal heat of the earth?

a)

geothermal

b)

valid

c)

convivial

d)

stratosphere

15.

What word means (of a bird or other winged creature) fly unsteadily or hover by flapping the wings quickly and lightly?

a)

administration

b)

crucial

c)

recede

d)

flutter

16.

What word means a piece of jewelry that hangs from a chain worn around the neck?

a)

pendant

b)

pendulum

c)

entail

d)

rely

17.

What word means to an infinite extent or amount; without limit?

a)

hemisphere

b)

recede

c)

idle

d)

infinitely

18.

What word means involve (something) as a necessary or inevitable part or consequence?

a)

entail

b)

crucial

c)

administration

d)

prominent

19.

What word means decisive or critical, especially in the success or failure of something?

a)

recede

b)

complex

c)

stress

d)

crucial

20.

What word means the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism?

a)

habitat

b)

hemisphere

c)

geosphere

d)

valid

21.

What word means a half of the earth, usually as divided into northern and southern halves by the equator, or into western and eastern halves by an imaginary line passing through the poles?

a)

hemisphere

b)

geosphere

c)

stratosphere

d)

erupt

22.

What word means the layer of the earth's atmosphere above the troposphere, extending to about 32 miles (50 km) above the earth's surface (the lower boundary of the mesosphere)?

a)

hemisphere

b)

geosphere

c)

radiation

d)

stratosphere

23.

What word means all the waters on the earth's surface, such as lakes and seas, and sometimes including water over the earth's surface, such as clouds?

a)

hemisphere

b)

hydrosphere

c)

stratosphere

d)

geosphere

24.

What word means the process or activity of running a business, organization, etc?

a)

administration

b)

complex

c)

convivial

d)

valid

25.

what word means situated so as to catch the attention; noticeable or important; famous?

a)

prominent

b)

crucial

c)

entail

d)

pendant

26.

What word means favorable or advantageous; resulting in good?

a)

crucial

b)

dubious

c)

habitat

d)

beneficial

27.

What word means a contagious bacterial disease characterized by fever and delirium, typically with the formation of buboes and sometimes infection of the lungs?

a)

plague

b)

stress

c)

muse

d)

radiation

28.

What word means not to be relied upon; suspect?

a)

dubious

b)

erupt

c)

idle

d)

forlorn

29.

What word means (of a volcano) become active and eject lava, ash, and gases?

a)

dubious

b)

prominent

c)

erupt

d)

flutter

30.

Intricate: blank Bland: Dull

(a)  

31.

Future: Rely:Depend

(a)  

32.

Depend: Anxious: Worried

(a)  

33.

Weight: Burden: Strain

(a)  

34.

Logical: True: Correct

(a)  

35.

Cheerful: Happy: Content

(a)  

36.

Unproductive: Ambitious: Determined

(a)  

37.

Depressed: Cheerful: Convivial

(a)  

38.

Diminish: Increase: Escalate

(a)  

39.

Time piece: Pendant: Necklace

(a)  

40.

Inspiration: Downfall: Collapse

(a)  

41.

The _ has now swung too far, and we need to reconsider where the boundary should be drawn.

(a)  

42.

The changes, however, were too numerous and _ to be dealt with here.

(a)  

43.

Her earning _ is higher in a private home, around $60,000.

(a)  

44.

We had to _ on our wits as well as our bodies to get into and out of some really rough places.

(a)  

45.

I've caused you so much _ – and at a time when I should have been supporting you.

(a)  

46.

This with the extracts from her letters, scattered through the report, is the first _ source of information about Helen Keller.

(a)  

47.

The evening atmosphere is that of a dinner party, warm and _ gatherings of guests and guides discussing the day's sightings.

(a)  

48.

It is to the public interest that deposits of mineral should not be permitted to remain _ and undeveloped.

(a)  

49.

The roof on the old house had been replaced, but the house stood empty and _.

(a)  

50.

Cool colors, such as blue, green, white and gray will _ visually when you see them.

(a)  

51.

Like mine, thy gentle numbers feebly creep; Thy tragic _ gives smiles, thy comic sleep.

(a)  

52.

She'd traveled nonstop, sticking to narrow country roads and the forest to avoid both people and zones marked as having any sort of _ fallout from the nuke strikes.

(a)  

53.

Five hundred years in the future human civilization has begun to _ deep space.

(a)  

54.

These factors play a role because all of these _ systems are buried beneath the earth's surface.

(a)  

55.

Seeing Gabriel made her insides _ and the world seem too small to be anywhere but his arms.

(a)  

56.

This colored silver bola contains a soothing chime and is worn as a _.

(a)  

57.

But he was _ generous and affectionate, and spent his enormous fortune liberally.

(a)  

58.

The rear brake compensator can cause trouble and, at worst, replacement may _ the removal of the gasoline tank.

(a)  

59.

Vitamins and minerals are _ to a healthy diet.

(a)  

60.

Bees find a highly congenial _ in Mexico, and some honey is exported.

(a)  

61.

Is this how you train 'em in the eastern _?

(a)  

62.

The amount of water vapor in the _ is thought to be fundamentally dependent on tropical tropopause temperatures through a freeze-drying mechanism.

(a)  

63.

Lakes and rivers are important sources of freshwater in the earth's _.

(a)  

64.

In every department of _ and of government he was supreme.

(a)  

65.

Why, because he is the son of a _ family doctor?

(a)  

66.

The ladybugs were _ insects, eating the pesky aphids.

(a)  

67.

In 1903 the city was devastated by an _ of plague.

(a)  

68.

Canada now has the _ distinction of having the second highest crime rate in the Western world.

(a)  

69.

And a bitter grudge, hidden and carefully nurtured for thirteen years, is about to _.

(a)