Worksheetsweek 2 Vocabulary Quiz
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 13mins
What is the meaning of the word "complicity"?
Deserving blame
Partnership in wrongdoing
An associate in crime
Withdraw previous statements
What does the word "abrogate" mean?
admit
abolish
report
prevent
What does "access" refer to in the context of the vocabulary list?
admittance
abolish
nullify
prevent
What does "preclude" mean?
admit
abolish
report
prevent
In the sample sentence, what word fits: "The manager was distraught when he realized that the slugger's sickness would ___ a World Series victory."
preclude
access
invalidate
abrogate
facilitate
Choose the correct word for the sentence: "The wealthy uncle decided to ___ his inane nephew's sinecure."
access
invalidate
preclude
abrogate
What is the meaning of "extrinsic"?
to hamper
foreign, coming from outside
speak loudly
persist
What does the idiom "to break the ice" mean?
to start a fight
to make a start by overcoming initial difficulties
to end a conversation
to create tension
What is the meaning of "nomadic"?
Harshness of temper
Model of excellence
Wandering
Descriptive name
What does "asperity" refer to?
Harshness of temper
Model of excellence
Wandering
Descriptive name
What is the idiom "the grapevine" used to describe?
A type of plant
A secret means of spreading information
A musical instrument
A type of dance
Match the following
paragon
model of excellence
nomadic
wandering
asperity
harshness of temper
epithet
descriptive name
controversial
debatable
Match the following
perpetrate
commit
consummate
to complete, of the highest degree
subterfuge
ruse, trick
concoct
devise
fallacious
misleading
Match the following
persevere
to persist
landmark
historic, turning point of a period
extrinsic
foreign, coming from outside
declaim
to speak loudly
fetter
to hamper
Match the following
abrogate
abolish
alleged
reported, supposed
access
admittance
invalidate
to deprive of legal force, to nullify
preclude
to prevent
Match the following
complicity
partnership in wrongdoing
liquidation
disposal of, killing
accomplice
an associate in crime
recant
to withdraw previous statements
culpable
deserving blame
