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Vocabulary Quiz 17 English II

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How would you describe something furtive?

a)

Secret, stealthy

b)

friendly

c)

deceptive

d)

hardworking

2.

What does decorous mean?

a)

Proper, in good taste

b)

praise, applaud

c)

defiant

d)

false

3.

What is a hiatus?

a)

A gap, opening, or break

b)

an injury

c)

blooming

d)

hatred, ill will

4.

How would you describe something specious?

a)

Deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious

b)

beautiful

c)

specific

d)

hateful

5.

What does acclaim mean?

a)

Praise, applause

b)

Counterargument

c)

hatred

d)

to rise above

6.

What does it mean to surmount something?

a)

To overcome, rise above it

b)

go under it

c)

to praise, applaud

d)

to push through

7.

What is pandemonium?

a)

A wild uproar, commotion

b)

widespread disease

c)

a meeting place

d)

applause, praise

8.

What does efflorescence refer to?

a)

Blooming of flowers

b)

glowing light

c)

a gap, opening, break

d)

hatred, ill will

9.

What does it mean for something to be embossed?

a)

Embellished with a raised pattern created by pressure

b)

to be carved

c)

dipped in gold or silver

d)

ruined

10.

What does enmity mean?

a)

hatred, ill will

b)

friendship

c)

admiration

d)

jealousy

11.

Match the following

a)

pan

1.

all, entire

b)

sur

2.

over

c)

flor

3.

flower, blossom

d)

em

4.

in, on

e)

mon

5.

warn