WorksheetsSound Great Quiz #7
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Characterized by or deserving shame or disgrace.
a)
ignominious
b)
amoral
c)
contend
d)
epithet
e)
latent
2.
Not admitting of moral distinctions or judgments; neither moral or immoral.
a)
amoral
b)
contend
c)
epithet
d)
ignominious
e)
latent
3.
A quick thrust given after parrying an opponent’s lunge in fencing; a quick, clever reply to an insult or criticism.
a)
riposte
b)
obdurate
c)
prescience
d)
truculence
e)
vista
4.
A distant view or prospect, especially one seen through an opening, as between rows of buildings or trees.
a)
vista
b)
obdurate
c)
prescience
d)
riposte
e)
truculence
5.
A disposition or an eagerness to fight or act with bitter hostility.
a)
truculence
b)
obdurate
c)
prescience
d)
riposte
e)
vista
6.
Present as potential, but not evident or active.
a)
latent
b)
amoral
c)
contend
d)
epithet
e)
ignominious
7.
A term used to characterize a person or thing, such as “the Great” in “Catherine the Great.”
a)
epithet
b)
amoral
c)
contend
d)
ignominious
e)
latent
8.
To strive in opposition or against difficulties; struggle.
a)
contend
b)
amoral
c)
epithet
d)
ignominious
e)
latent
9.
Hardened in wrongdoing or wickedness; stubbornly impenitent.
a)
obdurate
b)
prescience
c)
riposte
d)
truculence
e)
vista
10.
Knowledge of actions or events before they occur; foresight.
a)
prescience
b)
obdurate
c)
riposte
d)
truculence
e)
vista
11.
“Children, I grant, should be ‘innocent’; but when the ________________ is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness” (Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792).
a)
amoral
b)
epithet
c)
ignominious
d)
prescience
e)
vista
12.
“There is no doubt that the president foresaw the great dangers closing in upon the pre-war world with far more ________________ than most well-informed people on either side of the Atlantic…” (Winston Churchill, 1945).
a)
amoral
b)
epithet
c)
ignominious
d)
prescience
e)
vista
13.
“I have often reflected upon the new ________________ that reading opened to me” (Malcolm X with Alex Haley, 1964).
a)
amoral
b)
epithet
c)
ignominious
d)
prescience
e)
vista
14.
“What distinguishes markets is exactly that they are ________________--that is to say, moral considerations do not find expression in market prices” (George Soros, 2002).
a)
amoral
b)
epithet
c)
ignominious
d)
prescience
e)
vista
15.
“For Marcos it was an ________________ end. He had cringed in his palace for three disastrous days, watching incredulously as a desperate mutiny by a handful of soldiers blossomed into a full-scale revolt” (Harry Anderson, 1986).
a)
amoral
b)
epithet
c)
ignominious
d)
prescience
e)
vista
16.
Responsible to a higher authority; accountable or controllable.
a)
consign
b)
amenable
c)
precipitate
d)
nonchalance
e)
ken
17.
Perception; understanding.
a)
consign
b)
amenable
c)
precipitate
d)
nonchalance
e)
ken
18.
Casual lack of concern.
a)
consign
b)
amenable
c)
precipitate
d)
nonchalance
e)
ken
19.
To turn over permanently to another’s charge or to a lasting condition.
a)
consign
b)
amenable
c)
precipitate
d)
nonchalance
e)
ken
20.
To cause to happen, especially suddenly or prematurely.
a)
consign
b)
amenable
c)
precipitate
d)
nonchalance
e)
ken
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