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Unit 3 Vocab Set 2

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
  1. To delay or prevent by obstruction; to hinder.

a)

Inexorable

b)

Efflux

c)

Impede

2.
  1. Stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action.

a)

Edacious

b)

Obdurate

c)

Exemption

3.
  1. A difference in level or treatment, especially one that is seen as unfair.

a)

Foible

b)

Bellicose

c)

Disparity

4.

To use ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth or avoid committing oneself.

a)

Equivocate

b)

Maudlin

c)

Quotidian

5.

A person who revolts against an established government; one who acts contrary to the policies and decisions of one's own political party. 

a)

Recondite

b)

Recalcitrant

c)

Insurgent

6.
  1. To die, typically in a violent, sudden, or untimely way.

a)

Perish

b)

Extempore

c)

Lucubrate

7.

A person or thing that causes great trouble or suffering.

a)

Scourge

b)

Petulant

c)

Quixotian

8.

A picture, description, or imitation of a person in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect.

a)

Tautology

b)

Presage

c)

Caricature

9.

To bind or compel, especially legally or morally; restricted to a particular function or mode of life.

a)

Provident

b)

Engender

c)

Obligate

10.

A person who has ambitions to achieve something, typically a specific career or position.

a)

Aspirant

b)

Aberration

c)

Miser

11.

To make a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling worse.

a)

Recondite

b)

Itinerate

c)

Exacerbate

12.

A set of principles concerned with beauty, art, and taste; to be pleasing in appearance.

a)

Exuberance

b)

Aesthetic

c)

Pugnacious

13.

The state of being well known for some bad quality or deed.

a)

Infamy

b)

Convoking

c)

Alacrity

14.

The ability to possess infinite knowledge of the reality or universe.

a)

Prevaricate

b)

Vacillation

c)

Omniscience

15.

The use of ridicule or scorn to show contempt.

a)

Coercion

b)

Probity

c)

Derision

16.

To settle a dispute between two people or groups after hearing the arguments and opinions of both.

a)

Arbitrate

b)

Reciprocity

c)

Apprise

17.

One who abstains from drinking alcohol, and often advocates for others to do the same.

a)

Recalcitrant

b)

Teetotaler

c)

Apostate

18.

Very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail.

a)

Fastidious

b)

Heretical

c)

Wending

19.

Extremely foolish, stupid, or silly; relating to, or resembling an ass.

a)

Asymptote

b)

Asinine

c)

Assiduous

20.

A person who acts as a guide in a museum, art gallery, or zoo.

a)

Eschewer

b)

Misandrist

c)

Docent