SAT, ACT, GRE Vocabulary - Worksheet #36

 

New Words for Today: Acute, Catholic, Inert, Heresy, Specious

 

Acute (Noun, Adjective)

Type	Meaning	Synonyms	Antonyms
Noun	1: a mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation	ague
Adjective	1: having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course; "acute appendicitis"; "the acute phase of the illness"; "acute patients" 2: extremely sharp or intense; "acute pain"; "felt acute annoyance"; "intense itching and burning" 3: having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent penetrative observations"	intense, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing	chronic, obtuse

 

Catholic (Noun, Adjective)

Type	Meaning	Synonyms	Antonyms
Noun	1: a member of a Catholic church
Adjective	1: of or relating to or supporting Catholicism; "the Catholic Church" 2: free from provincial prejudices or attachments; "catholic in one's tastes"

 

Inert (Adjective)

Type	Meaning	Synonyms	Antonyms
Adjective	1: unable to move or resist motion 2: having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive; "inert matter"; "an indifferent chemical in a reaction" 3: slow and apathetic; "she was fat and inert"; "a sluggish worker"; "a mind grown torpid in old age"	indifferent, neutral, sluggish, soggy

 

Heresy (Noun)

Type	Meaning	Synonyms	Antonyms
Noun	1: any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position; "avoid from people who support a heresy" 2: a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion	heterodoxy

 

Specious (Adjective)

Type	Meaning	Synonyms	Antonyms
Adjective	1: plausible but false; "a specious claim"; "spurious inferences" 2: based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"	spurious, gilded

 

Today's Vocabulary Challenges *** Answers will be in the next worksheet of this level ***

 

Match Synonyms						Match Antonyms
1	permeate	A	endemic	1:		1	eccentric	A	concentric	1:
2	indigenous	B	pervade	2:		2	benevolent	B	chronic	2:
3	exalt	C	exhilarate	3:		3	acute	C	acute	3:
4	irrevocable	D	limbo	4:		4	illicit	D	stingy	4:
5	oblivion	E	irrevokable	5:		5	obtuse	E	licit	5:

 

Match Definitions
1	having or revealing supreme mastery or skill	A	irrevocable	1:
2	remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing	B	virtuoso	2:
3	incapable of being retracted or revoked; - Shakespeare	C	efface	3:
4	devoutly religious; H.L.Mencken	D	pious	4:
5	originating where it is found	E	indigenous	5:

 

Crossword Challenge
		1									Across: 1: foul and run-down and repulsive(6) 2: speed up the progress of; facilitate(8) 4: excessively agitated; transported with rage or other violent emotion(8) 7: being a single and separate person or thing; -William James(8) 8: brief and to the point; effectively cut short(5) Down: 1: plausible but false(8) 2: make inconspicuous(6) 3: of or relating to or used in cooking(8) 5: censure severely or angrily(6) 6: shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception(5)
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Engligh Language Trivia

wrapped up in cotton wool Someone who is wrapped up in cotton woolis over-protected from dangers and risks. "Their children are kept wrapped up in cotton wool" Did you know? - Study of tides is called "tidology."

 

Recent Words Learned: specious, heresy, inert, catholic, acute, credence, perturb, abortive, concurrent, chronological, zealous, strife, coerce, static, hierarchy, exalt, soporific, preclude, gauche, genre Answer to Crossword in worksheet 35: Across: 1: usurp, 3: abortive, 9: panacea Down: 2: penitent, 4: bereaved, 5: fecund, 6: coerce, 7: static, 8: gauche

 

SAT, ACT, GRE Vocabulary - Worksheet #35

 

New Words for Today: Zealous, Chronological, Concurrent, Abortive, Perturb, Credence

 

Zealous (Adjective)

Type	Meaning	Synonyms	Antonyms
Adjective	1: marked by active interest and enthusiasm; "an avid sports fan"; "a great walker"; "an eager beaver"	avid, great

 

Chronological (Adjective)

Type	Meaning	Synonyms	Antonyms
Adjective	1: relating to or arranged according to temporal order; "chronological age"

 

Concurrent (Adjective)

Type	Meaning	Synonyms	Antonyms
Adjective	1: occurring or operating at the same time; "a series of concurrent events"	coincident, coinciding

 

Abortive (Adjective)

Type	Meaning	Synonyms	Antonyms
Adjective	1: failing to accomplish an intended result; "an abortive revolt"; "a stillborn plot to assassinate the President"	stillborn

 

Perturb (Verb)

Type	Meaning	Synonyms	Antonyms
Verb	1: disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed; "She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill" 2: disturb or interfere with the usual path of an electron or atom; "The electrons were perturbed by the passing ion" 3: cause a celestial body to deviate from a theoretically regular orbital motion, especially as a result of interposed or extraordinary gravitational pull; "The orbits of these stars were perturbed by the passings of a comet"	unhinge, disquiet, trouble, cark, distract, disorder, derange

 

Credence (Noun)

Type	Meaning	Synonyms	Antonyms
Noun	1: the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true; "he gave credence to the gossip"; "credence of Newtonian mechanics was unquestioned for 200 years" 2: a kind of sideboard or buffet used to serve bread and wine before consecration.	acceptance, credenza	disbelief, distrust

 

Today's Vocabulary Challenges *** Answers will be in the next worksheet of this level ***

 

Match Synonyms						Match Antonyms
1	benevolent	A	discord	1:		1	obtuse	A	stingy	1:
2	indignant	B	charitable	2:		2	amorphous	B	structured	2:
3	extrovert	C	craftiness	3:		3	increment	C	decrement	3:
4	strife	D	incensed	4:		4	benevolent	D	introvert	4:
5	guile	E	extravert	5:		5	extrovert	E	acute	5:

 

Match Definitions
1	cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious	A	zealous	1:
2	take the place of	B	abash	2:
3	a drug that induces sleep	C	soporific	3:
4	marked by active interest and enthusiasm	D	usurp	4:
5	suitable for cutting or piercing	E	incisive	5:

 

Crossword Challenge
					1				2		Across: 1: take the place of(5) 3: failing to accomplish an intended result(8) 9: hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists(7) Down: 2: feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds(8) 4: a person who has suffered the death of someone they loved(8) 5: capable of producing offspring or vegetation(6) 6: to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :(6) 7: a crackling or hissing noise cause by electrical interference(6) 8: lacking social polish(6)
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Engligh Language Trivia

twiddle one's thumbs A person who twiddles their thumbs has nothing to do, or is doing nothing useful. "Go and help your father! You can't sit there all day twiddling your thumbs!" Did you know? - Study of cities is called "urbanology."

 

Recent Words Learned: credence, perturb, abortive, concurrent, chronological, zealous, strife, coerce, static, hierarchy, exalt, soporific, preclude, gauche, genre, obtuse, reprisal, hyperbole, ascendancy, virulent Answer to Crossword in worksheet 34: Across: 1: myopia, 3: virtuoso, 5: exalt, 8: equine Down: 2: preclude, 4: sanguine, 6: clique, 7: obtuse

 

Middle School Vocabulary - Worksheet #16

 

New Words for Today: Decree, Chaotic, Dismal, Succinct, Encroach

 

Decree (Noun, Verb)

Type	Meaning	Synonyms	Antonyms
Noun	1: a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in New Mexico said that the decree caused no trouble out there"	edict, fiat, order
Verb	1: issue a decree; "Only the King can decree" 2: decide with authority; "The King decreed that all firstborn males should be killed"	rule

 

Chaotic (Adjective)

Type	Meaning	Synonyms	Antonyms
Adjective	1: lacking a visible order or organization 2: completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing 3: of or relating to a sensitive dependence on initial conditions	disorderly

 

Dismal (Adjective)

Type	Meaning	Synonyms	Antonyms
Adjective	1: causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"	blue, dark, depressing, dingy

 

Succinct (Adjective)

Type	Meaning	Synonyms	Antonyms
Adjective	1: briefly giving the gist of something; "a short and compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy"; "succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject"	compendious, compact, summary

 

Encroach (Verb)

Type	Meaning	Synonyms	Antonyms
Verb	1: advance beyond the usual limit 2: impinge or infringe upon; "This impinges on my rights as an individual"; "This matter entrenches on other domains"	infringe, impinge, entrench

 

Today's Vocabulary Challenges *** Answers will be in the next worksheet of this level ***

 

Match Synonyms						Match Antonyms
1	haunt	A	frequent	1:		1	superior	A	agreement	1:
2	encroach	B	wire	2:		2	arid	B	wetland	2:
3	dusky	C	fearful	3:		3	dissent	C	calm	3:
4	electrify	D	twilight	4:		4	distraught	D	calm	4:
5	dreadful	E	entrench	5:		5	agitate	E	inferior	5:

 

Match Definitions
1	(of words) meaning the same or nearly the same	A	decree	1:
2	morally reprehensible	B	despicable	2:
3	excite suddenly and intensely	C	synonymous	3:
4	reach the summit of a mountain	D	electrify	4:
5	issue a decree	E	summit	5:

 

Crossword Challenge
1	2										Across: 3: advance beyond the usual limit(8) 7: causing dejection(6) 8: lighted by or as if by twilight(5) 9: exonerate by means of an alibi(5) 10: lacking a visible order or organization(7) Down: 1: imagined as in a play(7) 2: a person who has been convicted of a criminal offence(7) 4: lacking sufficient water or rainfall(4) 5: someone injured or killed in an accident(8) 6: act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises(6)
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Engligh Language Trivia

come up in the world A person who has come up in the world is richer than before and has a higher social status. "My old school friend has bought an apartment overlooking Central Park. She has certainly come up in the world" Did you know? - Study of comparative musical systems is called "ethnomusicology."

 

Recent Words Learned: encroach, succinct, dismal, chaotic, decree, concern, arid, haunt, alibi, casualty, batter, crutch, summit, accommodate, electrify, millennium, dreadful, edict, banter, dissent Answer to Crossword in worksheet 15: Across: 3: crutch, 6: arid, 7: dreadful, 8: edict Down: 1: haunt, 2: bankrupt, 4: casualty, 5: breach