SAT, ACT, GRE Vocabulary - Worksheet #33

 

New Words for Today: Exalt, Hierarchy, Static, Coerce, Strife

 

Exalt (Verb)

Type	Meaning	Synonyms	Antonyms
Verb	1: praise, glorify, or honor; "exalt the virtues of one's children"; "exalt one's spouse's cooking" 2: fill with sublime emotion; tickle pink; "The children were exalted at the prospect of going to the movies"; "He was inebriated by his phenomenal success" 3: heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination"	laud, extol, glorify, proclaim, exhilarate	jeer, belittle, sad

 

Hierarchy (Noun)

Type	Meaning	Synonyms	Antonyms
Noun	1: a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system; "put honesty first in her hierarchy of values" 2: the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body

 

Static (Noun, Adjective)

Type	Meaning	Synonyms	Antonyms
Noun	1: a crackling or hissing noise cause by electrical interference 2: angry criticism; "they will probably give you a lot of static about your editorial"
Adjective	1: not active or moving; "a static village community and a completely undynamic type of agriculture"; "static feudal societies" 2: not in physical motion; "the inertia of an object at rest" 3: concerned with or producing or caused by static electricity; "an electrostatic generator produces high-voltage static electricity"	unchanging, inactive, motionless, still, stable

 

Coerce (Verb)

Type	Meaning	Synonyms	Antonyms
Verb	1: to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"; "He squeezed her for information"	hale, squeeze, pressure

 

Strife (Noun)

Type	Meaning	Synonyms	Antonyms
Noun	1: lack of agreement or harmony 2: bitter conflict; heated often violent dissension	discord

 

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

 

Match Synonyms						Match Antonyms
1	implement	A	rag	1:		1	myopia	A	hyperopia	1:
2	rebuke	B	enforce	2:		2	singular	B	acute	2:
3	misappropriate	C	profanation	3:		3	extrovert	C	introvert	3:
4	willful	D	intentional	4:		4	obtuse	D	static	4:
5	sacrilege	E	peculate	5:		5	pervade	E	plural	5:

 

Match Definitions
1	appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use	A	usurp	1:
2	feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds	B	misappropriate	2:
3	take the place of	C	panacea	3:
4	uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing	D	penitent	4:
5	hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists	E	unremitting	5:

 

Crossword Challenge
		1	2								Across: 1: tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health(8) 3: cause to lose courage(5) 9: a retaliatory action against an enemy in wartime(8) 10: bitter conflict; heated often violent dissension(6) Down: 2: short account of an incident (especially a biographical one)(8) 4: a missing piece (as a gap in a manuscript)(6) 5: make less severe or harsh(8) 6: beyond or deviating from the usual or expected(8) 7: take the place of(5) 8: of or relating to fish(7)
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Engligh Language Trivia

What does Root word "ultra" mean? Root word "ultra" comes from Latin, meaning "beyond, extreme, more than". Examples: ultrahigh - extremely high; ultramodern - more modern than anything else; ultrasonic - sound waves beyond human hearing. Did you know? - Grammar book; science of inflections in grammar is called "accidence."

 

Recent Words Learned: strife, coerce, static, hierarchy, exalt, soporific, preclude, gauche, genre, obtuse, reprisal, hyperbole, ascendancy, virulent, sordid, usurp, indigenous, deride, singular, ideology Answer to Crossword in worksheet 32: Across: 3: myopia, 6: virulent, 7: panacea, 8: anecdote Down: 1: sanguine, 2: hedonism, 4: hiatus, 5: disdain