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Vocabulary Quiz #1 – Sadlier Oxford Vocabulary Workshop, Series F
Each question is worth 4 points for a total of 100 points
Approbation
Elicit
Innuendo
Meritorious
Simulate
assuage
expostulate
intercede
petulant
transcend
coalition
hackneyed
jaded
prerogative
umbrage
decadence
hiatus
lurid
provincial
unctuous
For each of the following groups of words, circle the one that doesn’t belong and in the
available space, explain why it doesn’t belong. (1 point for the correct answer and 3
points for the rationale/explanation)
1.
disapproval
approbation
condemnation
censure
Rationale:
2.
cosmopolitan
broad-minded
provincial
urban
Rationale:
3.
pleasant
attractive
appealing
decadent
wholesome
Rationale:
4.
hackneyed
trite
banal
novel
Rationale:
5.
feign
pretend
simulate
meritorious
Rationale:
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6.
fawning
unctuous
oily
sincere
Rationale:
7.
alliance
federation
coalition
divorce
Rationale:
8.
insinuation
hint
innuendo
fact
Rationale:
9.
allay
alleviate
aggravate
assuage
Rationale:
10.
evoke
elicit
call forth
stifle
Rationale:
Complete the following sentences by writing the correct vocabulary word in the blank.
11.
On the air the star seemed calm, but he privately sent _____________note to
those who gave him bad reviews.
12.
If you try to ____________ in an argument, the chances are that you will only
make things worse.
13.
Who would have thought he would take _________ at an e-mail from a friend
who wanted only to help?
14.
The magnificence of the scene far _____________ my ability to describe it in
words.
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15.
Forever humbling himself and flattering others, Dickens’ Uriah Heep is
famously ___________________.
16.
Shakespeare’s Hamlet finds it useless to ____________________ with his
mother for siding with his stepfather.
17.
Bright, sensational, and often ______________, some old-time movie posters
make today’s newspaper ads look tame.
18.
She seemed to feel that a snooze at her desk was not an annoying habit but the
___________ of a veteran employee.
19.
The banjo, once thought to be a ________________ product of the Southern
hills, actually came here from Africa.
Read the following passage, in which some of the words you have studied appear in
boldface type. Then complete each of the statements given below the passage by
circling the letter of the item that is the same or almost the same in meaning as the
boldface word. (# 20-25)