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Vocabulary

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does 'Abjure' mean?

a)

To repeal or do away with a law

b)

To solemnly renounce a belief, cause, or claim

c)

To disguise or contradict

2.

What does 'Abrogate' mean?

a)

To repeal or do away with a law or agreement

b)

To demonstrate aggression and willingness to fight

c)

To use trickery to achieve a political, financial, or legal purpose

3.

What does 'Abstemious' mean?

a)

Not self-indulgent, especially when eating or drinking

b)

The ability to make good judgments and quick decisions

c)

Conducive to success; favorable

4.

What does 'Acumen' mean?

a)

The use of many words where fewer would do

b)

The ability to make good judgments and quick decisions

c)

Rude in a mean-spirited and surly way

5.

What does 'Auspicious' mean?

a)

Conducive to success; favorable

b)

Modest or shy because of lack of self-confidence

c)

Shedding leaves annually

6.

What does 'Belie' mean?

a)

To disguise or contradict

b)

To demonstrate aggression and willingness to fight

c)

To remove material considered improper or offensive

7.

What does 'Bellicose' mean?

a)

Demonstrating aggression and willingness to fight

b)

The use of trickery to achieve a political, financial, or legal purpose

c)

Rude in a mean-spirited and surly way

8.

What does 'Bowdlerize' mean?

a)

To remove material that is considered improper or offensive

b)

To use many words where fewer would do

c)

To solemnly renounce a belief, cause, or claim

9.

What does 'Chicanery' mean?

a)

The use of trickery to achieve a political, financial, or legal purpose

b)

Not self-indulgent, especially when eating or drinking

c)

Conducive to success; favorable

10.

What does 'Churlish' mean?

a)

Rude in a mean-spirited and surly way

b)

The ability to make good judgments and quick decisions

c)

Demonstrating aggression and willingness to fight

11.

What does 'Circumlocution' mean?

a)

The use of many words where fewer would do

b)

To repeal or do away with a law or agreement

c)

To disguise or contradict

12.

What does 'Deciduous' mean?

a)

Shedding leaves annually

b)

Modest or shy because of lack of self-confidence

c)

Conducive to success; favorable

13.

What does 'Diffident' mean?

a)

Modest or shy because of lack of self-confidence

b)

Demonstrating aggression and willingness to fight

c)

The use of trickery to achieve a political, financial, or legal purpose

14.

What does deleterious mean?

a)

causing harm or damage

b)

self indulgent when eating or drinking

c)

demonstrating self-constraint and an unwillingness to fight

15.

What is the definition of circumnavigate?

a)

to cut through something right down the middle

b)

to go all the way around something

c)

to go north of somewhere when sailing