Thursday, October 26 is your vocabulary test. The format of the test will be as follows: You will be given a sentence with a gap in it. Underneath the gap, you will have the synonyms of the vocabulary word. A word bank of all 25 words will be at the top of the paper. Here are the words and synonyms used. Study carefully.
Week 10
Dire – baleful, ominous, doomy, foreboding, sinister
Malice – hatefulness, spite, despite, nastiness, meanness
Scruples – glimmer, ace, dab, shade, shred
Clamored – claim, demand, command, enjoin, insist
Quenched – douse, put out, extinguish, stamp out, blow out
Week 9
Chastise – baste, berate, scold, dress down, lecture
Lavish – extravagant, fancy, insane, overdue, excessive
Surmise – guess, shot, supposition, conjecture, thesis
Trifle – nothing, small change, bagatelle, triviality, shuck
Carousing – bender, binge, bust, drunk, spree
Week 8
Usurp – convert, pirate, seize, take over, commandeer
Predecessor – foregoer, forerunner, ancestor, originator, precursor
Admonition – advice, counsel, guidance, input
Sooth – truth, verity, trueness, honesty, reliability
Deign – stoop, condescend, degrade, demean, disgrace
Week 7
Resilience – flexible, springy, bouncy, adaptable, pliable
Implicit – implied, unspoken, unvoiced, wordless, inferred
Compulsion – force, pressure, bullying, arm-twisting, intimidate
Reaffirmation – reclaim, re-avowal, re-insistence, re-declaration
Dogma – canon, doctrine, belief, credo, principle
Week 6
Truncate – abbreviate, cut back, shorten, sum up summarize
Phantasmagoric – changing or shifting
Vicarious – in place of, alternation
perchance – maybe, perhaps, possibly, conceivably, likely
whence – source, cause, by reason of which fact