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A-F Vocabulary Quiz

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does the word 'egregious' mean?

a)

To avoid rules or laws without actually breaking them

b)

Incorrect to an extraordinary level

c)

To worsen or aggravate an already bad situation

d)

To come from or come out of someone, something, or somewhere

2.

Which word means 'made up of parts from various sources or origins'?

a)

Eclectic

b)

Enigma

c)

Egregious

d)

Emanate

3.

What is the definition of the word 'emanate'?

a)

To worsen or aggravate an already bad situation

b)

To flow from a specific source or place

c)

Someone or something that is not easily explained

d)

To do something in a way that shows it is beneath one’s dignity

4.

What does the word 'enigma' mean?

a)

To worsen or aggravate an already bad situation

b)

To come from or come out of someone, something, or somewhere

c)

Someone or something that is not easily explained

d)

To avoid rules or laws without actually breaking them

5.

What is the definition of the word 'exacerbate'?

a)

To worsen or aggravate an already bad situation

b)

To flow from a specific source or place

c)

To do something in a way that shows it is beneath one’s dignity

d)

To make something even more unpleasant or severe

6.

What does the word 'deign' mean?

a)

To worsen or aggravate an already bad situation

b)

Ridicule, contempt, or mockery

c)

To agree in a very condescending way to do something

d)

With harmful or damaging effect on something or someone

7.

What is the definition of the word 'deleterious'?

a)

With harmful or damaging effect on something or someone

b)

To avoid rules or laws without actually breaking them

c)

To flow from a specific source or place

d)

To come from or come out of someone, something, or somewhere

8.

What does the word 'derision' mean?

a)

To make someone feel ashamed, embarrassed, uncomfortable or humiliated

b)

To worsen or aggravate an already bad situation

c)

To agree in a very condescending way to do something

d)

Ridicule, contempt, or mockery

9.

What is the definition of the term 'Catch-22'?

a)

A feeling of humiliation due to disappointment

b)

To avoid rules or laws without actually breaking them

c)

To make someone feel ashamed, embarrassed, uncomfortable or humiliated

d)

A problem whose only solution is eliminated by some characteristic of the problem itself

10.

What does the word 'chagrin' mean?

a)

To worsen or aggravate an already bad situation

b)

To avoid rules or laws without actually breaking them

c)

To agree in a very condescending way to do something

d)

A feeling of humiliation due to disappointment

11.

What is the definition of the word 'circumvent'?

a)

Ridicule, contempt, or mockery

b)

With harmful or damaging effect on something or someone

c)

To evade by means of a gray area or loophole

d)

To come from or come out of someone, something, or somewhere

12.

What does the word 'baneful' mean?

a)

Ruinous or destructive, deadly and likely to cause ruin

b)

Senseless or nonsense talking

c)

To loathe

d)

To make someone feel ashamed, embarrassed, uncomfortable or humiliated

13.

What is the definition of the word 'balderdash'?

a)

Ruinous or destructive, deadly and likely to cause ruin

b)

To worsen or aggravate an already bad situation

c)

Senseless or nonsense talking

d)

To make someone feel ashamed, embarrassed, uncomfortable or humiliated

14.

What does the word 'abash' mean?

a)

To worsen or aggravate an already bad situation

b)

To agree in a very condescending way to do something

c)

To make someone feel ashamed, embarrassed, uncomfortable or humiliated

d)

To loathe

15.

What is the definition of the word 'abhor'?

a)

Ridicule, contempt, or mockery

b)

To come from or come out of someone, something, or somewhere

c)

To evade by means of a gray area or loophole

d)

To find something contemptible, loathsome, or repulsive

16.

Surreptitious, sly, stealthy, meant to escape detection.  Sneaky.  A person with something to hide.  

a)

Chagrin

b)

Abhor

c)

Furtive

d)

Flippant

17.

The point at which something comes to maturity.  Reaches a desired outcome.  Finished, completed, matured. 

a)

Furtive

b)

Fastidious

c)

Circumvent

d)

Fruition

18.

Flippant means:

a)

Not that serious.

b)

To flip.

c)

To flip an ant.

d)

Hilarious.

19.

Concerned over the perfection of even the smallest detail.  Meticulous and exacting; compulsive in terms of cleanliness.  

a)

Obsessed

b)

Fastidious

c)

Abhor

d)

Circumvent

20.

Humorous, silly, inappropriate. Slightly funny.

a)

Deleterious

b)

Facetious

c)

Fastidious

d)

Fruition