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Vocabulary and Definitions Assessment

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Awkward, lacking in social graces, tactless

a)

Inculcate

b)

Specious

c)

Gauche

d)

Sear

2.

An opinion different from accepted belief; the denial of an idea that is generally held sacred

a)

Heresy

b)

Palpable

c)

Satiate

d)

Pernicious

3.

To impress on the mind by repetition, teach persistently and earnestly

a)

Perceptive

b)

Gauche

c)

Pernicious

d)

Inculcate

4.

Capable of being touched or felt; easily seen, heard or recognized

a)

Perceptive

b)

Palpable

c)

Inculcate

d)

Salient

5.

Having sympathetic Insight or understanding, capable of keen appreciation

a)

Heresy

b)

Specious

c)

Perceptive

d)

Sear

6.

Extremely harmful; deadly, fatal

a)

Heresy

b)

inculcate

c)

Specious

d)

Pernicious

7.

Adjective - leaping, jumping or springing forth; prominent, standing out, conspicuous Noun - a projection or bulge, a landform that projects upward or outward

a)

Salient

b)

Satiate

c)

Specious

d)

Sear

8.

Verb - To satisfy completely; to fill to excess Adj - full, satisfied

a)

Gauche

b)

Satiate

c)

Sear

d)

Pernicious

9.

Deceptive, apparently good or valid but lacking real merit

a)

Inculcate

b)

Heresy

c)

Specious

d)

Satiate

10.

To make or become dry and withered; to char or scorch the surface of; to harden or make unfeeling; to parch, desiccate, singe

a)

Palpable

b)

Pernicious

c)

Perceptive

d)

Sear

11.

Moderate, sparing (as in eating and drinking); characterized by abstinence and self-discipline

a)

Abstemious

b)

Contingent

c)

Florid

d)

Denizen

12.

Deserving of blame or correction

a)

Dowdy

b)

Discursive

c)

Censurable

d)

Disseminate

13.

Adj - Likely but not certain to happen, possible; dependent on uncertain events or conditions’ happening by chance Noun - a representative group forming part of a larger body

a)

Foist

b)

Contingent

c)

Denizen

d)

Corroborate

14.

To confirm, make more certain; bolster, substantiate, verify

a)

Dowdy

b)

Abstemious

c)

Contingent

d)

Corroborate

15.

An inhabitant; Resident; one who frequents a place

a)

Florid

b)

Denizen

c)

Censurable

d)

Foist

16.

Passing aimlessly from one place or subject to another, rambling, roving, nomadic

a)

Discursive

b)

Disseminate

c)

Corroborate

d)

Abstemious

17.

To scatter or spread widely

a)

Denizen

b)

Foist

c)

Corroborate

d)

Disseminate

18.

Poorly dressed, shabby; lacking smartness and good taste

a)

Dowdy

b)

Discursive

c)

Dowdy

d)

Censurable

19.

Highly colored, reddish; excessively ornate, showy

a)

Abstemious

b)

Denizen

c)

Foist

d)

Florid

20.

To impose by fraud; to pass off as worthy or genuine; to bring about by stealth, dishonesty or coercion

a)

Foist

b)

Florid

c)

Dowdy

d)

Discursive