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Name: _____________________________________ Vocabulary - Unit 2

Week of 10/7/2019 – 10/11/2019

1. churlish – adj.) lacking politeness or good manners; lacking sensitivity; difficult to work with or deal with; rude

Example: The store manager instructed all the salesclerks to avoid churlish replies to customers’ questions.

Synonyms: surly, ill-tempered

Antonyms: courteous, civil, well-mannered

2. collaborate – (v.) to work with, work together

Example: Several students plan to collaborate on a geology project for the annual science fair.

Synonyms: team up, join forces

Antonym: work alone

3. decree – (n.) an order having the force of law; (v.) to issue such an order; to command firmly or forcefully

Example: 1) “There went forth a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.”

2) Why does nature always seem to decree nasty weather for our annual family picnic?

Synonyms : (n.) proclamation, edict; (v.) proclaim

4. evolve – (v.) to develop gradually; to rise to a higher level

Example: Authors hope that their notes, descriptions, and character sketches will evolve into a book.

Synonyms: unfold, emerge

Antonyms: wither, shrivel up, atrophy

5. jostle – (v.) to make or force one’s way by pushing or elbowing; to bump, shove, brush against; to compete for

Example: I tried not to jostle other riders as I exited the crowded bus.

Synonyms: push

6. preclude – (v.) to make impossible, prevent, shut out

Example: Three wrong answers will preclude any contestant from entering the quiz show’s final round.

Synonyms: hinder, check, stop

Antonyms: help, promote, facilitate

7. revert – (v.) to return, go back

Example: Control of a property usually reverts to the legal owner when a lease is up.

Synonyms: relapse, regress

Antonyms: progress, advance

8. rubble – (n.) broken stone or bricks; ruins

Example: Bulldozers and wrecking balls soon reduced the damaged building to a heap of smoking rubble.

Synonyms: wreckage, debris

9. vigil – (n.) a watch, especially at night; any period of watchful attention

Example: Thousands attended the solemn vigil at the Veterans Memorial.

10. wrangle – (v.) to quarrel or argue in a noisy, angry way; to obtain by argument; to herd; (n.) a noisy quarrel

Examples: 1) My brother and sister always wrangle over whose turn it is to take out the trash.

2) The customer got into a nasty wrangle with the shopkeeper.

Synonyms: (v.) squabble, bicker

Antonyms: (v.) agree, concur

Name: __________________________________ Vocabulary

Unit 2 Due Tuesday 10/8

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

Directions: Choose the word from the unit that is THE SAME or MOST NEARLY THE SAME in meaning as the BOLDFACED word in the sentence. Write the vocabulary word on the line provided.

1. as the ad campaign slowly unfolded _____________________

2. tried to prevent further objections to the bill _____________________

3. pushed the table so hard that it tipped over _____________________

4. crushed beneath many tons of debris _____________________

5. plan to team up to write an original skit _____________________

6. go back to an earlier stage of development _____________________

7. according to a papal proclamation _____________________

8. kept a watch at their father’s car _____________________

9. siblings always bicker _____________________

10. don’t mess with ill-tempered people _____________________

Antonyms

Directions: Choose the word from the vocabulary unit that is OPPOSITE or MOST NEARLY OPPOSITE in meaning to the BOLDFACED word or expression in the given phrase. Write the vocabulary word on the line provided.

11. I prefer to work alone ______________________

12. promote the new business ______________________

13. not accustomed to such courteous service ______________________

14. a withered flower ______________________

16. advance towards the future _____________________

17. usually agreed about the way to proceed _____________________

Name: __________________________________ Vocabulary

Unit 2 Due Friday 10/11

Completing the Sentence

Directions: From the words in this unit, choose the one that best complete each of the following sentences. Write the word in the space provided.

1. Your silly pride about doing everything on your own _____________________ your getting the help you need so badly.

2. They had such a long __________________ over the use of the bicycle that their mother finally wouldn’t allow either of them to use it.

3. With tireless devotion, the ailing child’s parents kept and anxious _________________ at her bedside.

4. The cafeteria line was so crowded that I was __________________ past the desserts before I could take one.

5. During his eleven years of “personal rule,” King Charles I of England bypassed Parliament and ruled the country by royal ____________________.

6. For two nights, he did his homework faithfully; then he __________________ to his usual lazy ways.

7. Our teachers gave the two of us permission to _____________________ on our reports because we were investigating related problems.

8. If you will only show a little patience, that business investment may grow and ____________________ for you.

9. Before the new housing project could be built, it was necessary to tear down the old houses and remove the __________________.

10. You hurt her feelings when you reacted to her comments in such a __________________ way, especially since you asked for her advice.

Name: __________________________________ Vocabulary

Unit 2 Due Thursday 10/10

Choosing the Right Word

Directions: Circle the boldfaced word that more satisfactorily completes each of the following sentences.

1. All those who (decreed, collaborated) with the enemy in the hope of gaining special favors will be punished severely.

2. The assembly speaker may have been boring, but that was no excuse for the students’ (decreed, churlish) behavior toward him.

3. The fact that he was found guilty of a felony many years ago doesn’t (preclude, jostle) his running for mayor.

4. I refuse to accept the excuse that the pressures of a new job caused you to (revert, wrangle) to your old habit of cigarette smoking.

5. After the operation, we sat in the hospital lounge, keeping a nightlong (collaboration, vigil) until we heard from the doctor.

6. There are times when we all need to be (wrangled, reverted) away from old, familiar ideas that may no longer be as true as they once seemed.

7. The little club that they set up to talk over community problems (evolved, jostled) over the years into a national political organization.

8. After I had broken curfew for the third time in one week, my angry parents (decreed, precluded) that I was grounded for the rest of the week.

9. As we searched through the (rubble, vigil) after the earthquake, it was heartbreaking to find such articles as a teakettle and a child’s doll.

10. Under the Articles of Confederation, the thirteen states (evolved, wrangled) so much that the nation seemed to be in danger of breaking up.

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