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Lesson 4 Vocabulary Exercises D

SAPERE <L. “to taste”

sapient, sage

NOSCO, NOSCERE <L. “to get to know”

cognition, cognizant, connoisseur, notorious

PUTO, PUTARE <L. “to settle”

compute, impute, repute, putative

SAGIO, SAGIRE <L. “to perceive acutely or keenly with the senses or mind”

presage, sagacious

SCIO, SCIRE <L. “to know”, “to understand”

conscientious, plebiscite, prescience

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Lesson 4 Vocabulary Exercises D

Circle the letter of the best SYNONYM for the word(s) in boldfaced type

  1. a reputation for sapience a. insolence b. credulity c. hypocrisy d. heterodoxy e. wisdom
  2. known for sagacity a. good judgment b. good taste c. hypocrisy d. disgrace e. sacrilege
  3. cognizant of the situation a. afraid of b. foretelling c. aware of d. responsible for e. in recognition of
  4. her sage advice a. imaginative b. sagacious c. pious d. sanctimonious e. needed
  5. to compute the bill a. process b. challenge c. pay off d. change e. calculate

Circle the letter of the best ANTONYM for the word in boldfaced type.

  1. attract notoriety a. notice b. widespread approval c. degradation d. criticism e. beneficence
  2. a reputed connoisseur a. virtuoso b. gastronome c. know nothing d. expert e. stranger
  3. with great conscientiousness a. carelessness b. anxiety c. self consciousness d. mortification e. naivete
  4. with prescience a. hindsight b. cognition c. heterodoxy d. imputations e. worthlessness
  5. the putative author a. hypocritical b. beloved c. pious d. dogmatic e. accredited

Circle the letter of the sentence in which the word in boldfaced type is used incorrectly.

1.

a . Roman slaves led by Spartacus staged a plebiscite against their masters.

b. In a 1971 plebiscite, Swiss women finally gained the right to vote.

c . Voters restored the death penalty in a recent plebiscite.

d. Their petition called for a plebiscite on building a nuclear power plant.

2.

  1. During the 1930s few British politicians were fully cognizant of the threat posed by Hitler's Germany.
  2. Until I read Willa Cather's novel My Antonia, I was not cognizant of the important role played by pioneer women.
  3. Police officers must make sure that people have full cognizance of their rights when being arrested.
  4. I can no longer cognizance your rudeness.

3.

  1. She is reputed to be the best chef in New Orleans.
  2. At the lower end of town were several saloons and houses of ill repute.
  3. Don't repute my authority; do as I say.
  4. Until the death of Mao Tse-tung in 1976, Jiang Qing, his fourth wife and the third-ranking leader of the government hierarchy, was reputed to be the most powerful woman in China.

4.

  1. Until I saw her sculptures, I thought Louise Nevelson's putative genius was overrated.
  2. After trying every putative panacea, he found that rest was the best medicine.
  3. Our visit to the Ozarks confirmed its putative charm.
  4. Others may believe you, but I know you to be a putative liar.

5.

  1. Because of a prescient need for solitude, I left the party and walked home alone.
  2. Only his prescient avoidance of the bridge saved him from death.
  3. With great prescience she packed both a flashlight and matches in her knapsack.
  4. Despite his wife's prescient dream, Hector insisted on fighting with Achilles and met his death.

6.

  1. I resent your imputation that I can't be trusted.
  2. We impute from your resume that you speak several languages.
  3. According to Bushido, the "Way of the Warrior" followed by Japanese samurai, dying by ritual suicide, or seppuku, was preferable to living with the imputation of cowardice.
  4. Although imputed a half-wit, young Arthur was the only one who could draw the sword Excalibur from the stone.

7.

  1. A connoisseur of opera, my cousin also enjoyed the Grand Ole Op'ry.
  2. Elise Haas, a philanthropist and connoisseur, left her collection of twentieth-century art, valued at more than forty million dollars, to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
  3. She is a natural connoisseur of the computer, able to invent programs almost effortlessly.
  4. Although this vase looks irregular and rough, connoisseurs of Japanese pottery prize it as a fine piece of raku.

8.

  1. Only after I read the report of the tornado did I have full cognition of how narrowly our town escaped disaster.
  2. Alcohol blurred her cognition of the other guests' discomfort.
  3. Because the cognition mechanism misfired, the rocket crashed.
  4. Human cognition grows most in the first two years of life.

9.

  1. As evidence that the appearance of ghosts is a presage of disaster, Horatio recalls that "the sheeted dead / Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets" before Julius Caesar's death.
  2. In ancient Greece the oracle of the sacred oak grove of Dodona used the rustle of leaves to presage the outcome of events.
  3. An itchy nose is said to be a presage of a kiss from a stranger.
  4. Algebra and geometry are necessary presages for success in calculus.

Fill in each blank with the most appropriate word from Lesson 4. Use a word or any of its forms only once.

  1. The age of a tree can be roughly ______by counting its rings, indications of the number of its growing seasons.
  1. In South America Pablo Neruda is held in high ______both as a critic and a writer.
  1. Portia displays ______beyond her years when she must decide the case between Shylock, who demands his "pound of flesh," and Antonio, whose life is at stake.
  1. In a 1991 ______, the Lithuanian people declared their wish to be an independent republic separate from what was the Soviet Union.
  1. In Tess of the D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy shows that Tess is truly noble, although society ______her to be a "fallen woman."
  1. Our chemistry teacher insists that we be ______about wearing protective goggles and aprons when we work in the lab.
  1. Although they had a highly advanced civilization, the Incas had no ______of the use of the wheel.
  1. According to the traditional verse, "red clouds at morning, sailors take warning," a scarlet sunrise ______coming storm.
  1. During the gold rush of the 1890s the mining towns of the Alaskan Yukon were ______for their lawlessness.
  1. In "The Scholars" William Butler Yeats mocks the so-called ______of pedants: they are learned but not wise because they know nothing of life outside their books.
  1. Hiawatha often turns for advice to the medicine woman Nokomis, the______of their people.

Review Exercises

A. is recognized for wisdom

B. pretends to be virtuous

C. acts in an agitated manner

D. asserts opinions arrogantly

E.decides character by facial

features

F.has acute delusions and

irrational episodes

G.has discriminating taste

H.finds selfserving reasons for

doing something

I.considers God unknowable

J.refuses to join the military

on grounds of conscience

1. _____ conscientious objector

2. _____ rationalizer

3. _____ agnostic

4. _____ dogmatist

5. _____ schizophrenic

6. _____ connoisseur

7. _____ hypocrite

8. _____ physiognomist

9. _____ sage

10. _____ frenetic