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Vocabulary List

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which word means publicize, promote, advertise or praise excessively?

a)

propitiate

b)

tout

c)

preamble

d)

recant

2.

To appease, soothe or pacify is to:

a)

plummet

b)

tout

c)

recant

d)

propitiate

3.

Which is an antonym for florid?

a)

plain

b)

floral

c)

talkative

d)

decorative

4.

This weekend, the temperature will ________ to below 30 degrees.

a)

precipitate

b)

tout

c)

plummet

d)

propitiate

5.

Which verb means to strip, deprive or take away?

a)

propitiate

b)

tout

c)

plummet

d)

divest

6.

Although Latrell does not speak much in class, put a cellphone in her hand and you'll see how ______________ she can be!

a)

loquacious

b)

anachronistic

c)

compliant

d)

fatuous

7.

The opposite of preamble is:

a)

aftergamble

b)

introduction

c)

conclusion

8.

Gabrielle's argument was so ______________ that we could not follow all the twists and turns.

a)

convoluted

b)

compliant

c)

florid

d)

impassive

9.

Which word means a model of perfection; pattern of excellence?

a)

aragon

b)

florid

c)

zenith

d)

paragon

10.

After graduation, I got a good job despite the negative comments from teachers throughout my high school years. I learned to ignore them and now I am ____________ to criticism.

a)

convoluted

b)

impassive

c)

impervious

d)

ignorant

11.

apex; peak; culmination

a)

zenith

b)

paragon

12.

Refusing to let the enemy see how deeply shaken he was by his capture, the prisoner kept his face _________________.

a)

florid

b)

frenetic

c)

fatuous

d)

impassive

13.

elevated in nature; refined; made less dense (of a gas)

a)

rarefied

b)

loquacious

c)

impervious

14.

chronologically out of place; out of its proper time period

a)

impassive

b)

compliant

c)

anachronistic

15.

hasty; rash; sudden; abrupt; rapid

a)

precipitate

b)

impervious

c)

rarefied

16.

__________ your statement now, before I sue you for defamation of character!

a)

Divest

b)

Tout

c)

Preamble

d)

Recant

17.

Because Ciara usually gave in and went along with whatever his friends suggested, his mother worried that he might be too ____________.

a)

anachronistic

b)

compliant

c)

zenith

18.

If someone says you are fatuous, then you are:

a)

brainless

b)

intelligent

c)

sporty

d)

overweight

19.

As soon as they smelled smoke, the ___________ horses milled about in their stalls.

a)

rarefied

b)

friendly

c)

frenetic

d)

fatuous

20.

urgent; pressing; requiring immediate action

a)

zenith

b)

exigent

c)

convoluted

d)

compliant