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Quiz: Part II, Lesson 1 Name _______________________ Use ten of the boxed words. You may need to change a word slightly (e.g., pluralize a noun) to make it fit. 1. _______________ - to abolish (a law, etc.) 2. _______________ - a set of names used in a specific discipline 3. _______________ - meddlesome; minding other people's business 4. _______________ - futile; ineffectual 5. _______________ - a lack of self-confidence 6. Spiritual people try not to worry about _______________ matters. 7. Former presidents are sometimes willing to serve as the current president’s _______________. 8. As she rewrote her story, she kept an eye out for _______________ modifiers. 9. The patient complained of insomnia and _______________. 10. The _______________ projects were torn down and replaced by single-family dwellings.
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vertigo
vivacious dilapidated superfluous timidity officious emissary mundane dubious nomenclature unavailing abrogate
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Quiz: Part II, Lesson 2 Name _______________________ Use ten of the boxed words. You may need to change a word slightly (e.g., pluralize a noun) to make it fit. 1. _______________ - the state of being first in rank, importance, time, etc. 2. _______________ - to put forward for consideration; to propose 3. _______________ - an inheritance from one’s father 4. _______________ - kind 5. _______________ - to make better; to improve 6. The number of stars in the Milky Way is large but _______________. 7. The arena committee may only _______________ its problems by agreeing to consider additional sites. 8. When news of the _______________ reached the soldiers in the trenches, they lept into the air, shouted like kids, and hugged each other. 9, 10. The leader’s signal, _______________ and _______________, caused the scouts to freeze in their tracks.
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grievous
ameliorate patrimony admonitory finite primacy explicit pessimist exacerbate armistice propound beneficent
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Quiz: Part II, Lesson 3 Name _______________________ Use ten of the boxed words. You may need to change a word slightly (e.g., pluralize a noun) to make it fit. 1. _______________ - unable to be doubted 2. _______________ - to cut off from public view 3. _______________ - in the first stages 4. _______________ - a general agreement in opinion 5. _______________ - of or like a dog 6. The old woman is _______________ to be 117 years old. 7. Although the witness’s testimony was entirely true, the jury found scarcely any of it ______________. 8. An unusual, _______________ signal caught the attention of SETI scientists. 9. We spend much of our leisure time in our new _______________. 10. The speaker asked for five additional minutes in order to _______________.
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intermittent
seclude repute solarium incipient consensus communism judicable credible indubitable recapitulate canine
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Quiz: Part II, Lesson 4 Name _______________________ Use ten of the boxed words. You may need to change a word slightly (e.g., pluralize a noun) to make it fit. 1. _______________ - to release from slavery or restraint 2. _______________ - an action or device used to conceal one's true objective 3. _______________ - to block (a passage) 4. _______________ - to drop in value or price 5. _______________ - having to do with cities or towns 6. Because of high daytime temperatures in the desert, most animals there are _______________. 7. Their blatant ignorance and irrationality in scientific discussions was nothing short of _______________. 8. Until the invention of printing in the 15th century, the Bible was _______________ by hand 9. The Black Death _______________ the population of Europe in the 14th century. 10. Critics say that the USA Patriot Act _______________ Americans of certain constitutional rights.
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divest
nocturnal emancipate depreciate subterfuge urban ludicrous temporal mortal transcribe occlude decimate
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