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English 12 Unit 10 vocab

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 3mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

relating to controversy or argument

a)

recalccitrant

b)

tacit

c)

untenable

d)

polemical

2.

chief butler or assistant

a)

scullion

b)

bumpkin

c)

majordomo

d)

brigand

3.

use of unnecessarily wordy or evasive language

a)

renunciation

b)

circumlocution

c)

recrimination

d)

incantation

4.

a tip or payment in addition to regular wages

a)

perquisite

b)

vestige

c)

largesse

d)

renunciation

5.

indicated but not expressed; implies silently

a)

otiose

b)

eidetic

c)

tacit

d)

timorious

6.

impossible to defend or justify

a)

tacit

b)

unimpeachable

c)

untenable

d)

penultimate

7.

a person who flatters for personal gain

a)

scullion

b)

toady

c)

interlocutor

d)

brigand

8.

to make better or improve

a)

comprise

b)

depredate

c)

venerate

d)

ameliorate

9.

timid

a)

polemical

b)

blithe

c)

timorous

d)

untenable

10.

indirect; roundabout

a)

circuitous

b)

apocryphal

c)

polemical

d)

inimical

11.

next to last

a)

penultimate

b)

pervasive

c)

polemical

d)

quotidian

12.

generosity

a)

asperity

b)

majordomo

c)

kudos

d)

largesse

13.

to plunder and pillage

a)

expurgate

b)

inundate

c)

depredate

d)

estrange

14.

confirmed integrity; respectability

a)

peregrination

b)

asperity

c)

probity

d)

camaderie

15.

lazy

a)

convoluted

b)

tacit

c)

puerile

d)

indolent

16.

a counter accusation

a)

perquisite

b)

catharsis

c)

recrimination

d)

iniquity

17.

to walk about; to stroll

a)

promulgate

b)

perambulate

c)

pander

d)

prognosticate

18.

to exploit weaknesses of others; to cater to the vices of others

a)

pander

b)

vitiate

c)

expurgate

d)

estrange

19.

emitting light

a)

soporific

b)

dulcet

c)

dilatory

d)

luminous

20.

a thin, attractive layer that conceals something common or coarse

a)

nexus

b)

talisman

c)

veneer

d)

vestige