Vocabulary Practice

1. Vocabulary Practice Unit i

2. Complete the sentence • Winter _____________ should be warm and cozy while summer attire should be cool • and light. • Compress • Dispatch • Apparel • Oafs

3. C. apparel

4. Complete the sentence • The editor ______________ my rambling 10-page mystery into a 5-page thriller. • Denounced • Compressed • Doused • Libeled

5. b. compressed

6. Complete the sentence • Most computer software is designed so that users can obtain almost ___________ responses. • Instantaneous • Inept • Receded • compressed

7. Instantaneous

8. What is the best antonym for the word underlined below. • My parents had misgivings about my going to the senior prom with Ralph. • Worry • Hesitation • Doubt • Assurance

9. d. Assurance

10. What is the best synonym for the underlined word. • We will dispatch a repair crew to fix your electricity right away. • Recall • Withhold • Send • resend

11. C. send

12. Choose the Best Antonym for the underlined word. • An instantaneous decision • Unreasonable • Expected • Honest • delayed

13. d. delayed

14. Choose the best Antonym for the underlined word. • He had misgivings about donating to the charity. • Misunderstandings • Caution • Reluctance • Assurance

15. d. Assurance

16. Choose the best antonym for the underlined word • I noticed his inept moves on the dance floor and knew he couldn’t dance. • Skillful • Bumbling • Indifferent • uncaring

17. a. Skillful

18. Choose the Best antonym for the underlined word. • I have concerns about the immense amount of homework that you were given. • Global • Small • Unexpected • Imaginary

19. b. small

20. Choose the best synonym for the underlined word. • He forgot to douse the coals after he finished cooking his steak. • Identify • Soak • Inquire • inspect

21. b. soak

22. Choose the best synonym for the underlined word. • The army prepared to besiege the village. • Warn • Supply • Honor • encircle

23. d. encircle

24. Which word fits the definition. • Totally without skill or appropriateness • Immense • Gainful • Famished • inept

25. d. inept

26. Which word fits the definition. • A big, clumsy, slow individual • Misgiving • Dispatch • Repast • oaf

27. d. oaf

28. definition • To write or publish a statement that falsely harms the reputation of the person about whom it is made • Douse • Libel • Besiege • apparel

29. b. libel

30. Fill in the blank • The author had to work hard to _______ the wisdom of a lifetime into his half-hour speech. • Libel • Recede • Forsake • compress

31. d. compress

32. Fill in the blank • Every day when he arrived home from school, the healthy boy announced that he was _______________. • Famished • Gainful • Inept • instantaneous

33. a. famished

34. Fill in the blank • Furniture makers sometimes like to construct _________ secret drawers in their pieces, some of which are so cleverly hidden that the owners never know they exist. • Ingenious • Inept • Instantaneous • gainful

35. a. ingenious

36. Fill in the blank • During the dramatic ending of the play, the hero stands up, points his finger at the butler, and ___________ him as the real mastermind behind the crime. • Forsakes • Irks • Recedes • denounces

37. d. denounces