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week 2 Vocabulary Quiz

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the meaning of the word "complicity"?

a)

Deserving blame

b)

Partnership in wrongdoing

c)

An associate in crime

d)

Withdraw previous statements

2.

What does the word "abrogate" mean?

a)

admit

b)

abolish

c)

report

d)

prevent

3.

What does "access" refer to in the context of the vocabulary list?

a)

admittance

b)

abolish

c)

nullify

d)

prevent

4.

What does "preclude" mean?

a)

admit

b)

abolish

c)

report

d)

prevent

5.

In the sample sentence, what word fits: "The manager was distraught when he realized that the slugger's sickness would ___ a World Series victory."

a)

preclude

b)

access

c)

invalidate

d)

abrogate

e)

facilitate

6.

Choose the correct word for the sentence: "The wealthy uncle decided to ___ his inane nephew's sinecure."

a)

access

b)

invalidate

c)

preclude

d)

abrogate

7.

What is the meaning of "extrinsic"?

a)

to hamper

b)

foreign, coming from outside

c)

speak loudly

d)

persist

8.

What does the idiom "to break the ice" mean?

a)

to start a fight

b)

to make a start by overcoming initial difficulties

c)

to end a conversation

d)

to create tension

9.

What is the meaning of "nomadic"?

a)

Harshness of temper

b)

Model of excellence

c)

Wandering

d)

Descriptive name

10.

What does "asperity" refer to?

a)

Harshness of temper

b)

Model of excellence

c)

Wandering

d)

Descriptive name

11.

What is the idiom "the grapevine" used to describe?

a)

A type of plant

b)

A secret means of spreading information

c)

A musical instrument

d)

A type of dance

12.

Match the following

a)

paragon

1.

model of excellence

b)

nomadic

2.

wandering

c)

asperity

3.

harshness of temper

d)

epithet

4.

descriptive name

e)

controversial

5.

debatable

13.

Match the following

a)

perpetrate

1.

commit

b)

consummate

2.

to complete, of the highest degree

c)

subterfuge

3.

ruse, trick

d)

concoct

4.

devise

e)

fallacious

5.

misleading

14.

Match the following

a)

persevere

1.

to persist

b)

landmark

2.

historic, turning point of a period

c)

extrinsic

3.

foreign, coming from outside

d)

declaim

4.

to speak loudly

e)

fetter

5.

to hamper

15.

Match the following

a)

abrogate

1.

abolish

b)

alleged

2.

reported, supposed

c)

access

3.

admittance

d)

invalidate

4.

to deprive of legal force, to nullify

e)

preclude

5.

to prevent

16.

Match the following

a)

complicity

1.

partnership in wrongdoing

b)

liquidation

2.

disposal of, killing

c)

accomplice

3.

an associate in crime

d)

recant

4.

to withdraw previous statements

e)

culpable

5.

deserving blame