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Vocabulary Acquisition Quiz

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does "unmitigated" mean?

a)

a false picture of reality

b)

a church in a pleasant field

c)

unqualified or absolute

d)

a look of hate

2.

What does "pneumatic" mean?

a)

exaggerated flattery

b)

the trait of refining from something

c)

not arrogant or prideful

d)

containing or operated by air or gas under pressure

3.

What does "refractive" mean?

a)

repeated too often

b)

of or involving refraction

c)

recovering readily from adversity

d)

more than is needed

4.

What does "atrocity" mean?

a)

the trait of having wisdom and good judgement

b)

lacking wit or imagination

c)

inclined or willing to give in

d)

an extremely wicked or cruel act

5.

What does "rowel" mean?

a)

a spiked disk at the end of spur

b)

a shelter from danger or hardship

c)

the state of being held in low self esteem

d)

lacking sufficient water or rainfall

6.

What does "clemency" mean?

a)

with repening or murmuring

b)

submersed

c)

mercy or lenience

d)

descriptions of the arts and crafts of tribes and peoples

7.

What does "catatonic" mean?

a)

one skilled in singing not often applied to human beings

b)

mutual talk or conversation conference

c)

a chemical substance

d)

of or in an immobile or unresponsive stupor.

8.

What does "epitaph" mean?

a)

a phase or form written in memory of a person who has died

b)

contempt or derision to deride by mimicry

c)

a form of decay in which a fruit is overripe

d)

a genus of fossil

9.

What does "commiserate" mean?

a)

nearly enclosed by land

b)

express or feel sympathy or pity

c)

In a continuous manner

d)

shadowy vague

10.

What does "acrimonious" mean?

a)

of middle rank state size or quality

b)

of necessity

c)

typically of speech or a debate; angry and bitter

d)

to make prosperous

11.

What does "palpitate" mean?

a)

the light produced by a current of electricity

b)

a fountain a source of continual supply

c)

of the heart, beat rapidly, strongly or irregularly

d)

in a sedentary manner

12.

What does "bucolic" mean"

a)

a description of the lungs

b)

curved in three directions

c)

relating to the pleasant aspects of the countryside

d)

of or pertaining to a whale

13.

What does "travesty" mean"

a)

showing a vulgar taste in clothing

b)

a genus or fungi

c)

to make conventional

d)

a false absurd, or distorted representation of reality

14.

What does "inert" mean?

a)

lacking the ability or strength to move

b)

the state of being inaccessible

c)

the arrangement of columns in a structure

d)

the act of fishing

15.

What does "tawdry" mean?

a)

mutually related

b)

showy but cheap and of poor quality

c)

the act of accessing

d)

capacity for imagination

16.

What does "abominable" mean?

a)

in a ravishing manner

b)

in a compliant manner

c)

causing moral revulsion

d)

a retailer of small articles

17.

What does "beguile" mean?

a)

a repeated examination

b)

pertaining to respiration

c)

relating to evolution

d)

charm or enchant someone, sometimes in a deceptive way

18.

What does "harangue" mean?

a)

a lengthy and aggressive speech

b)

the quality or state of being starch

c)

An authoritative command

d)

to take up plants to transplant

19.

What does "scathing" mean?

a)

mutually related in some way

b)

confused or disturbed

c)

witheringly scornful; severely critical

d)

an author of a piece of music

20.

What does "patina" mean?

a)

formal praise to persons

b)

a surface appearance of something grown beautiful especially with age or use

c)

suspended action

d)

meant as a joke; to make humor

21.

What does "impudent" mean?

a)

without previous thought or preparation

b)

refuse to believe

c)

taking too little care

d)

not showing due respect for another person; impertinent