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IRON CHICKEN DANCER

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

If you act with ___, you are making a bold showy statement

a)

Bravado

b)

Pervade

c)

Inept

d)

Docile

2.

Use this word to refer to a business or investment that makes money. While your parents might want you to pursue a ___ career, you're committed to your plan of becoming a professional mime.

a)

Insinuate

b)

Condescend

c)

Vehement

d)

Lucrative

3.

This word is a word that implies deterioration, often because of neglect. So if you don’t take care of things, they can become ___. That goes for houses, tree forts, relationships, health — you name it!

a)

Cajole

b)

Pervade

c)

Repudiate

d)

Dilapidated

4.

You will often see the word amounts following THIS WORD since the adjective is often used to modify a measurement of something — like ___ amounts of wine or ___ amounts of hair gel.

a)

Procure

b)

Reprimand

c)

Copious

d)

Stoic

5.

Use this adjective to describe someone who behaves in a dishonest or unethical way.

This behavior is the unfortunate resort of many ambitious people — it’s the immoral stuff they do to make success more attainable.

a)

languid

b)

unscrupulous

c)

apprehensive

d)

congenial

6.

Both verb and noun are often used in reference to a statement by a judge who disagrees with a decision made by other judges. This Word is also used to refer to political opposition to government policies.

a)

Ostracize

b)

Candor

c)

Dissent

d)

Vindicate

7.

This word is from Latin and was originally applied to intense natural phenomena: pain, heat, wind, etc. It is now more commonly used for intense emotions or beliefs. With the adverb form, people can be ___ in favor of something, but the more common usage is for people to be ___ opposed to something.

a)

Stoic /

Stoically

b)

Vehement / Vehemently

c)

Tactful /

Tactfully

d)

Vindicate /

Vindicated

8.

This Word is a word that you will hear a lot around rich people looking to show off. "Remember the ___ buffet at Carrie’s sweet sixteen? Sixteen chocolate cakes iced in gold leaf!"

a)

Pervade

b)

Exemplary

c)

Zealot

d)

Opulent

9.

If something is this word, it does harm or makes things worse. Smoking has obvious ___ effects on your health, not to mention your social life

a)

Deleterious

b)

Discern

c)

Mitigate

d)

Rapport

10.

If you have THIS WORD with someone, you two communicate with trust and sympathy. The word is often used to mean good interaction between people in different positions or roles such as parent and teacher, teacher and student, doctor and patient, supervisor and worker, or speaker and audience

a)

Dictum

b)

Docile

c)

Rapport

d)

Barrage

11.

By itself, this word, which shares a Latin root with error, is a formal way to say "mess up." The proverb "To __ is human, to forgive divine" is an old-fashioned version of "Hey, everyone makes mistakes. Why don't you be the bigger person and let it go?" can also mean to go in a certain direction, as in another common saying, " __ on the side of caution," or "Play it safe."

a)

Covet

b)

Cajole

c)

Err

d)

Ease

12.

THIS WORD means you imply or suggest something that may or may not be true. If you say things seemed to go wrong about the time your brother took over, you ___ that he had something to do with the decline

a)

Ungainly

b)

Insinuate

c)

Lucid

d)

Cynicism

13.

THIS WORD is a memory aid for something, often taking the form of a rhyme or an acronym. I before E except after C, is a ___ to help you remember how to spell words like "piece" and "receive."

a)

Slovenly

b)

Surmise

c)

Dictum

d)

Mnemonic

14.

This Word means deserving of blame or strong criticism. It is a strong word — your mother might forgive you for doing something bad, but something ___ ? That's worse.

a)

Buttress

b)

Insipid

c)

Reprehensible

d)

Misgiving

15.

This word means to revolt, when the led no longer obey the leader. This behavior is largely associated with the behavior of unhappy crews at sea. A __ crew can really mess up a ship captain's day.

a)

Mutinous

b)

Gluttonous

c)

Fortuitous

d)

Scopious

16.

If the first section of the newspaper you read is the obituaries, you could be considered this word. This word is a word used to describe anyone who spends too much time thinking about death or disease.

a)

Morbid

b)

Languid

c)

Odious

d)

Uncouth