UNIT 8 VOCABULARY
Word
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Meaning
1. anecdote (n.)
short narrative about an interesting or amusing
Incident or event; story
2. convey (v.)
1. impart; communicate; make known; express
2. carry from one place to another; transport;
bring
3. demoniacal (adj.)
or demoniac
produced or influenced by a demon (evil spirit);
devilish; fiendish
4. denouement (n.)
(prounounced de-new-ma)
final solution or untangling of a plot or complex
situation; unravelment; disentanglement
5. essence (n.)
1. basic nature of a thing; quality or sum of
qualities that makes a thing what it is
2. perfume; scent
6. fashionable (adj.)
1. dressing in or conforming to the fashion or
style; in style; stylish
(ant.) unfashionable, old-fashioned
2. patronized by those who conform to fashion
7. incidentally (adv.)
1. in an incidental (accidental) way; by chance;
casually
2. apart from the main subject; by the way
8. incongruity (n.)
condition of being incongruous (out of keeping
or place; inappropriate); inconsistency; lack of
harmony; lack of accordance with what is
reasonable
(ant.) consistency
9. malice (n.)
desire to inflict unjustified harm or suffering just
for the satisfaction of doing it; spite; animosity;
malevolence; cruelty
(ant.) benevolence, goodwill, charity
10. prime (adj.)
first in importance, significance, quality, value, or
rank; chief; principal; first-rate
APPLYING WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED
Pg 2
Exercise 1. Which of the two choices makes the sentence correct? Write the
letter of your answer in the space provided.
1. I know how the movie ________ because a friend told me about the denouement.
A. begins
B. ends
2. It would be an incongruity for you to ___________________..
A. nominate Rita for President
and vote for her opponent
B. oppose Jack’s motion and vote to
amend it
3. We need a ________ convey the topsoil.
A. wheelbarrow
B. sprinkler
4. It would not be an act of malice if you were to let air out of my tires _______.
A. just for the fun of it.
B. because they are overinflated.
5. A good anecdote fills _________________.
A. a page or less
B. an average-sized book
6. The matter of the budget came up incidentally; __________________.
A. it was on the agenda
B. we had not planned to discuss it
7. ___________, an old, feeble person may have demoniacal strength.
A. When rested
B. In a frenzy
8. Don’t fret too much about a low grade on a ___________; it is not of prime
significance.
A. daily quiz
B. final test
9. It is not a fashionable restaurant because the sign in the window reads “ ______.”
A. Closed Mondays
B. Come as you are
10. As we entered the room, a delicate essence greeted our _______________.
A. nostrils
B. ears
SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS
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Exercise 2. Fill the blanks in column A with the required synonyms and
antonyms, selecting them from column B.
Column A
Column B
_____________________ 1. antonym for old-fashioned
chief
_____________________ 2. synonym for fiendish
incidentally
_____________________ 3. synonym for prime
denouement
_____________________ 4. synonym for story
fashionable
_____________________ 5. antonym for benevolence
convey
_____________________ 6. synonym for unravelment
incongruity
_____________________ 7. synonym for impart
essence
_____________________ 8. antonym for consistency
anecdote
_____________________ 9. synonym for casually
malice
____________________ 10. synonym for perfume
demoniacal
USING FEWER WORDS
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Exercise 3. Replace the italicized words with a single word from the vocabulary list.
Vocabulary List
prime
fashionable
incongruity
essence
denouement
demoniacal
incidentally
malice
anecdote
convey
1. By the way, did anyone call while I was out?
1. ________________
2. How can you claim to be a sensible person if you do
not understand the basic nature of human relations?
2. ________________
3. Their service is excellent and their meats are first in
quality.
3. ________________
4. We have no time for a long story, but any short
narrative about an interesting or amusing event will
be appreciated.
4. ________________
5. After bringing home $75 worth of food from the
supermarket, Bill and Agnes decided to go out for
dinner. What a strange lack of accordance with what
is reasonable!
5. ________________
6. There are important details that you neglected to
make known to us.
6. ________________
7. As the plot thickens, you will naturally have some clues
of your own about the final solution.
7. ________________
8. The hoodlums overturned all the garbage cans in the
area in their desire to inflict unjustified suffering just
for the satisfaction of doing it.
8. ________________
9. Their behavior was abnormal, outrageous, and
influenced by an evil spirit..
9. ________________
10. Most young people hate to wear clothes no longer
in style.
10. ________________
IDENTIFICATION
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Exercise 4. Read the following statements. Then complete each sentence by
inserting the most appropriate proper name from these statements.
A lengthy telephone conversation with Charlotte prevented Howard from
completing the novel on which he was to be tested the next morning.
Before entering a neat, prosperous
home, Snopes would deliberately
make his boots as filthy as possible
so that he might soil the carpeting.
The detectives investigating the
theft gave most of their attention
to Gladys because they know
she had sustained heavy losses
in the stock market.
We made Lois tell us again how she handled the situation when a patient
leaving the dentist’s office put on her coat – Lois’s – by mistake.
Approaching the shopping mall by a
new route, Enid happened to notice a
shoe shop that she had been
completely unaware of.
Cindy’s vague letter from the
resort she was staying at gave so
few details that we had no idea of
what her vacation was like.
When Peter asked Rose, who grows tomatoes, why she keeps buying
tomatoes in the supermarket, she explained that here were not ripe yet.
Armand liked to wear what he was
comfortable in, even if it was not
what everyone else was wearing.
Mark, who has applied to several
colleges, called this morning to
say he had good news.
Seven-year-old Ingrid, forbidden to go on the outing with her friends, went
raging into her room and overturned everything.
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1. ____________________ was eager to convey something.
2. ____________________ had no burning desire to be fashionable.
3. ____________________ was unaware of the denouement.
4. ____________________ explained a seeming incongruity.
5. ____________________ obviously was a person of malice.
6. ____________________ related an anecdote.
7. ____________________ became a prime suspect.
8. ____________________ learned of something incidentally.
9. ____________________ behaved in a demoniacal fashion.
10. ____________________ failed to communicate the essence of an
experience.
ROOTS AND DERIVATIVES
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Exercise 1. From the list of roots and derivatives, choose a synonym for the
italicized word or expression and write it in the space provided.
1. Our early ancestors used crude tools.
1. _______________
2. She is a (an) person of great skill with a tennis racquet. 2. _______________
3. Some spiteful rival is inventing lies about me.
3. _______________
4. Among elderly patients, pneumonia has a high rate of
occurrence.
4. _______________
5. Your plan is fundamentally the same as ours.
5. _______________
Exercise 2. Fill each blank with the word from the roots and derivatives that best fits
the context.
1. In ceramics he is a demon; he can ___________________ the most
enchanting shapes from a piece of clay.
2. Punctuation marks are ___________________; they convey meaning.
3. To seal the wood, apply a good _______________ as an undercoat.
4. Mrs. Arp has a good memory for incidents and is able to give visiting parents a
(an) __________________ account of their children’s work.
5. Though Mr. Becker is in excellent health, he can no longer do the strenuous
work that he did in his _____________.
6. Elmer and I generally agree; our views are _______________.
7. The covered wagon, by modern standards, was a primitive _______________.
8. Carmela is such an able assistant that the department head may __________
her as his successor.
9. The President had been so well briefed by his advisers that he ably answered
all questions on the topic of the press conference, as well as _____________
questions.
10. The protester, _________________ described as demoniac by his political
enemies, was as sane as your or I.