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WorksheetsD&D WK1
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
A formation of groups or individuals in which each unit is positioned successively to the left or right of the rear unit to form an oblique or step-like line.
a)
echelon
b)
abjuration
c)
aesthetic
d)
internecine
e)
magnanimous
2.
A confused struggle; especially a hand-to-hand fight between several people.
a)
melee
b)
abjuration
c)
aesthetic
d)
echelon
e)
internecine
3.
Relating to beauty or the appreciation of beauty.
a)
aesthetic
b)
abjuration
c)
echelon
d)
internecine
e)
magnanimous
4.
A medicine whose effectiveness is unproved and whose ingredients are usually secret; a quack remedy; a favored but often questionable remedy.
a)
nostrum
b)
abjuration
c)
aesthetic
d)
echelon
e)
internecine
5.
A stone coffin, often inscribed or decorated with sculpture.
a)
sarcophagus
b)
abjuration
c)
aesthetic
d)
echelon
e)
internecine
6.
A person or thing that comes before another of the same kind; a forerunner.
a)
precursor
b)
abjuration
c)
aesthetic
d)
echelon
e)
internecine
7.
A renouncement upon oath or a solemn rejection.
a)
abjuration
b)
aesthetic
c)
echelon
d)
internecine
e)
magnanimous
8.
A book, especially a large or scholarly book.
a)
tome
b)
abjuration
c)
aesthetic
d)
echelon
e)
internecine
9.
Of or relating to struggle within a nation, organization, or group; mutually destructive; ruinous or fatal to both sides.
a)
internecine
b)
abjuration
c)
aesthetic
d)
echelon
e)
magnanimous
10.
Noble in mind and heart; generous and unselfish.
a)
magnanimous
b)
abjuration
c)
aesthetic
d)
echelon
e)
internecine
11.
“While he was becoming more and more closely drawn into the ________ politics of the Socialist party and its pro-Bolshevik and anti-Bolshevik offshoots, she was getting a broader sense of the country, of what the Russian experiment meant to various people” (Mary V. Dearborn, Queen of Bohemia).
a)
abjure
b)
echelons
c)
internecine
d)
magnanimous
e)
nostrums
12.
“The potential to ________ the will of the people in order to advance a partisan agenda seems vast” (Chris Cillizza, 2022).
a)
abjure
b)
echelons
c)
internecine
d)
magnanimous
e)
nostrums
13.
“He was clearly a confirmed hypochondriac, and I was dreamily conscious that he was pouring forth interminable trains of symptoms, and imploring information as to the composition and action of innumerable quack ________, some of which he bore about in a leather case in his pocket” (Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four).
a)
abjure
b)
echelons
c)
internecine
d)
magnanimous
e)
nostrums
14.
“By asking the right questions and choosing the right tests and drawing the right conclusions the mechanic works his way down the ________ of the motorcycle hierarchy until he has found the exact cause or causes of the engine failure” (Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance).
a)
abjure
b)
echelons
c)
internecine
d)
magnanimous
e)
nostrums
15.
“[S]ophisticated and intellectually wise as I like to think I am now, I have to admit I’m still inspired by a poetic phrase, ________ gesture, a promise of a better tomorrow” (Norma Sherry, Baltimore Chronicle & Sentinel).
a)
abjure
b)
echelons
c)
internecine
d)
magnanimous
e)
nostrums
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