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WORD BANK
amnesty
autonomy
axiomatic
blazon
caveat
equitable
extricate
filch
flout
fractious
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precept
salutary
scathing
scourge
sepulchral
soporific
straitlaced
transient
unwieldy
vapid
1. _______________ (n.) a warning or caution to prevent misunderstanding or discourage behavior
a. The Latin phrase “ _______________ emptor” means “Let the buyer beware.”
b. Synonyms: admonition, word to the wise
2. _______________ (v.) to mock, treat with contempt
a. She chose to ignore my advice, not because she wanted to _______________ my beliefs, but
because she had strong opinions of her own.
b. Synonyms: scoff at, sneer at, snicker at, scorn
c. Antonyms: obey, honor, revere, uphold
3. _______________ (n.) a rule of conduct or action
a. Many religions follow the _______________ that it is important to treat others as you, yourself,
would like to be treated.
b. Synonyms: principle, maxim
4. _______________ (adj.) bitterly severe, withering; causing great harm
a. Sometimes a carefully reasoned discussion does more to change people’s minds than a
_______________ attack.
b. Synonyms: searing, harsh, ferocious, savage
c. Antonyms: bland, mild
5. _______________ (adj.) tending to cause sleep, relating to sleepiness or lethargy; (n.) something that
induces sleep
a. He claimed that the musical, despite its energy, was _______________ and that he had slept
through the entire second act
Shakespeare’s Juliet drinks a _______________ so as to appear dead – a trick she is soon to regret.
b. Synonyms: narcotic, anesthetic
c. Antonyms: stimulating, stimulant, stimulus
6. _______________ (adj.) lasting only a short time, fleeting; (n.) one who stays only a short time
a. His bad mood was _______________, and by the time he’d finished his breakfast, he was smiling.
Many farm hands lived the lives of _______________ during the Great Depression.
b. Synonyms: impermanent, ephemeral, evanescent
c. Antonyms: permanent, imperishable, immortal
7. _______________ (n.) a general pardon for an offense against a government; in general, any act of
forgiveness or absolution
a. Many political prisoners were freed under the _______________ granted by the new regime.
8. _______________ (adj.) self-evident, expressing a universally accepted principle or rule
a. One should not accept the idea that the camera never lies as an _______________ truth.
b. Synonyms: taken for granted
c. Antonyms: questionable, dubious, controversial
9. _______________ (adj.) fair, just, embodying principles of justice
a. He did more work, so a sixty-forty split of the profits seemed an _______________ arrangement.
b. Synonyms: right, reasonable, evenhanded
c. Antonyms: unjust, unfair, one-sided, disproportionate
10. _______________ (adj.) beneficial, helpful; healthful, wholesome
a. The cute new puppy had a _______________ effect on her health.
b. Synonyms: salubrious, curative
c. Antonyms: detrimental, deleterious, pernicious
11. _______________ (adj.) funereal, typical of the tomb; extremely gloomy or dismal
a. My sister announced in a severe and _______________ tone of voice that we were out of cookies.
b. Synonyms: doleful, lugubrious, mortuary
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12. _______________ (adj.) dull, uninteresting, tiresome; lacking sharpness, flavor, liveliness, or force
a. While critics called the movie _______________, I thought the performers were very compelling.
b. Synonyms: insipid, lifeless, colorless
c. Antonyms: zesty, spicy, savory, colorful, lively
13. _______________ (n.) self-government, political control
a. Even after the thirteen colonies gained _______________ from England, many Americans clung to
English traditions.
b. Synonyms: home rule
c. Antonyms: dependence, subjection, colonial status
14. _______________ (v.) to free from entanglements or difficulties; to remove with effort
a. The ring must have slid off my finger as I was trying to _______________ the fish from the net.
b. Synonyms: disentangle, extract, disengage
c. Antonyms: enmesh, entangle, involve
15. _______________ (adj.) tending to be troublesome; unruly, quarrelsome, contrary; unpredictable
a. It seems as if even the smoothest-running organizations contain one or two _______________
elements.
b. Synonyms: refractory, recalcitrant, peevish
c. Antonyms: docile, tractable, cooperative
16. _______________ (adj.) extremely strict in regard to moral standards and conduct; prudish, puritanical
a. Travelers may find people overseas _______________ in some ways but surprisingly free in others.
b. Synonyms: highly conventional, overly strict, stuffy
c. Antonyms: lax, loose, indulgent, permissive, dissolute
17. _______________ (adj.) not easily carried, handled, or managed because of size or complexity
a. We loaded the truck with the chairs and the coffee table, but the grand piano was too
_______________.
b. Synonyms: cumbersome, bulky, clumsy, impractical
c. Antonyms: manageable, easy to handle
18. _______________ (v.) to adorn or embellish; to display conspicuously; to publish or proclaim widely
a. They will _______________ the results of the election across the Internet and every television set
in the land.
b. Synonyms: broadcast, trumpet
c. Antonyms: hide, conceal, cover up, bury
19. _______________ (v.) to steal, especially in a sneaky way and in petty amounts
a. If you _______________ pennies from the cash drawer, you are unlikely, after a while, to be
satisfied with only pennies.
b. Synonyms: pilfer, purloin, swipe
20. _______________ (v.) to whip, punish severely; (n.) a cause of affliction or suffering; a source of severe
punishment or criticism
a. Jonathan Swift used wit to _______________ the British government for its cruel treatment of
Ireland
Competing teams consider my daughter to be the _______________ of the soccer field.
b. Synonyms: (v.) flog, beat; (n.) bane, plague, pestilence
c. Antonyms: (n.) godsend, boon, blessing
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