Search Vocabulary – Schreiner



Search Vocabulary – Schreiner

Book D, Unit # 6

Word List

1. atone – (v) to make up for

2. bondage – (n) slavery; any state of being bound or held down

3. credible – (adj) believable

4. defray – (v) to pay for

5. diligent – (adj) hardworking, industrious, not lazy

6. doleful – (adj) sad, dreary

7. ghastly – (adj) frightful, horrible; deathly pale

8. hamper – (v) to hold back

9. hew – (v) to shape or cut down with an ax; to hold to

10. impoverished – (adj) poor, in a state of poverty; depleted

11. incessant – (adj) never stopping, going on all the time

12. intricate – (adj) complicated, difficult to understand

13. lucid – (adj) easy to understand, clear; rational, sane

14. posthumous – (adj) occurring or published after death

15. prim – (adj) overly neat, precise, proper, or formal; prudish

16. sardonic – (adj) grimly or scornfully mocking, bitterly sarcastic

17. superfluous – (adj) exceeding what is sufficient or required, excess

18. supplant – (v) to take the place of, supersede

19. taunt – (v) to jeer at, mock; (n) an insulting or mocking remark

20. tenacious – (adj) holding fast; holding together firmly; persistent

Vocabulary Assignment Book D, Unit # 6

Filling in the Blanks

Choose the word from this unit that best completes each of the following sentences.

1. “Someone with such a(n) ________________ hold on life doesn’t give up the ghost easily,” I thought as I watched the old man’s struggle to stay alive.

2. During World War II, artificial rubber began to _________________ natural rubber in American automobile tires.

3. With a single stroke of his sword, the knight ____________________ off the monster’s head and hung it up on a pole for all to see.

4. A student who is _________________ and systematic in study habits will often do better than one who is brilliant but erratic.

5. “Since her heroic deeds clearly speak for themselves,” the President remarked, “further comment on my part would be ________________.”

6. He is a rather ________________ sort of man whose sensibilities are easily shocked by other people’s less exacting standards of conduct.

7. Since my apartment is located on a busy intersection, I have been forced to accustom myself to the ___________________ hum of traffic outside.

8. The huge piles of snow that cover the roads leading to the site of the accident will greatly __________________ the efforts of the rescue team.

9. In a touching scene on the steps of the Capitol, the President awarded ________________ Medals of Honor to soldiers who had recently fallen in defense of the country.

10. A man of lofty character and bearing, the prisoner endured the jibes and ______________ of his captors with great patience and fortitude.

11. The wily old Senator derived a certain amount of __________________ amusement from watching his enemies turn on and destroy one another.

12. When the stock market collapsed in 1929, many a wealthy speculator found himself as __________________ as the proverbial church mouse.

13. I shall never forget the ___________________ sight that greeted us when we arrived at the scene of the accident.

14. Although Mrs. McCormick was still in a state of shock after the accident, she was _____________ enough to answer the questions posed by the police.

15. Saying “I’m sorry” is a good way to begin to _______________ for the suffering or harm that you have done to another person.

16. Lincoln said: “Familiarize yourself with the chains of ___________ and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.”

17. Our football team would do a great deal better if they mastered a few simple plays, instead of trying to use all those _________________ formations.

18. To help _______________ the expenses that I would incur on the Senior Class trip to Washington, I became a professional baby-sitter.

19. I suppose bloodhounds may be as happy as other dogs, but they have the ______________ look of creatures who have lost their last friend.

20. I know that he will say anything to save his own skin, but I feel that in this case his account of the incident is _______________ and should be accepted.

21. For thousands of years the American Indians used stone implements to _____________ canoes out of logs and tree trunks.

22. After she lost everything she valued in the world, she began to feel that life had become too ________________ to be worth living.

Synonyms

From the words for this unit, choose the one that is most nearly the same in meaning as each of the following groups of expressions.

1. complicated, complex, convoluted ___________________________

2. sorrowful, mournful, melancholy, dolorous ___________________________

3. to ridicule, mock, jeer at ___________________________

4. excess, surplus, supererogatory ___________________________

5. to settle, bear the cost, foot the bill ___________________________

6. clear, limpid; intelligible; rational ___________________________

7. to hinder, obstruct, impede, inhibit ___________________________

8. fussy, fastidious; squeamish, prudish ___________________________

9. poverty-stricken, destitute, indigent ___________________________

10. obstinate, stubborn, dogged, persistent ___________________________

11. dreadful, appalling; gruesome, grisly ___________________________

12. caustic, mordant, acerbic, wry ___________________________

13. occurring after death, post-mortem ___________________________

14. believable, plausible, acceptable, likely ___________________________

15. industrious, assiduous, sedulous ___________________________

16. to chop, hack; to fell; to adhere, conform ___________________________

17. ceaseless, constant, uninterrupted ___________________________

18. captivity, subjection, servitude, dependence ___________________________

19. to make up for, make amends for, expiate ___________________________

20. to replace, displace, supersede, oust ___________________________

Antonyms

From the words for this unit, choose the one that is most nearly the opposite in meaning as each of the following groups of expressions.

1. occasional, sporadic, intermittent ___________________________

2. simple, uninvolved, uncomplicated ___________________________

3. lazy, indolent; cursory, perfunctory ___________________________

4. murky, muddy; obscure, unintelligible ___________________________

5. necessary, essential, vital, indispensable ___________________________

6. yielding, weak, gentle, lax, slack ___________________________

7. to cheer, applaud, acclaim ___________________________

8. unbelievable, implausible, improbable ___________________________

9. cheerful, blithe, jaunty, buoyant ___________________________

10. dowdy, frumpy; sloppy, untidy; loose, lax ___________________________

11. rich, wealthy, affluent, prosperous ___________________________

12. freedom, liberty; independence ___________________________

13. pleasant, agreeable, attractive, delightful ___________________________

14. prenatal ___________________________

15. to facilitate, ease, smoothe the way ___________________________

16. to make no amends for ___________________________

17. bland, mild; saccharine; good-natured ___________________________

Choosing the Right Word

Encircle the boldface word that more satisfactorily completes each of the following sentences.

1. What real use is financial independence if a person remains forever in (bondage, credibility) to foolish fears and superstitions?

2. He is very slow to form opinions, but once he does he holds on to them (tenaciously, dolefully).

3. His feverish and (lucid, incessant) activity cannot hide the fact that he doesn’t know that he’s doing.

4. I know that love is fickle, but I never expected to be (taunted, supplanted) in her affections by a crumb like Danny Orr.

5. The novel’s grim humor and (superfluous, sardonic) portrayal of the futility of all human endeavors make it an intensely disturbing book.

6. In some early societies, people who had committed certain crimes could (atone, defray) for them by paying sums of money to their victims.

7. The penniless adventurer is a character so familiar to fiction readers as to render further description of the type (intricate, superfluous).

8. “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me” is an old saying I try to keep in mind whenever someone (hews, taunts) me.

9. Even after the most systematic and (credible, diligent) search, we could not find the missing documents.

10. Loss of blood very quickly turned the victim’s normally rosy face a (prim, ghastly) hue of white.

11. The author’s writing style is as (lucid, intricate) as the sparkling waters of a mountain lake on a spring morning.

12. If we were to lose the basic freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, we would be truly (taunted, impoverished).

13. (Hampered, Impoverished) by the weight I had gained over the summer, I was dropped from the football squad after the first practice session.

14. Royalties from a novel that is published (superfluously, posthumously) normally go to the author’s estate.

15. “The witness has changed his story so often that no jury on earth is likely to find his testimony (lucid, credible),” the D.A. observed smugly.

16. I was amazed when I looked through the microscope and observed the (incessant, intricate) pattern of blood vessels in the specimen’s body.

17. In a totalitarian state, people who do not (hew, hamper) firmly to the party line are likely to find themselves in “hot water” with the authorities.

18. That village is famous all over the world for its demure cottages with their well-manicured lawns and (prim, diligent) gardens.

19. If we want government to provide services, we must pay taxes to (defray, hamper) the costs.

20. Frankly, I am tired of h is endless (credible, doleful) complaints about all the people who have been unfair to him.

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