SAT, ACT, GRE Vocabulary - Worksheet #30

 

New Words for Today: Usurp, Sordid, Virulent, Ascendancy

 

Usurp (Verb)

Type	Meaning	Synonyms	Antonyms
Verb	1: seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession; "He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town"; "he usurped my rights"; "She seized control of the throne after her husband died" 2: take the place of; "gloom had usurped mirth at the party after the news of the terrorist act broke"	assume, seize, arrogate

 

Sordid (Adjective)

Type	Meaning	Synonyms	Antonyms
Adjective	1: morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal" 2: unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign" 3: foul and run-down and repulsive; "a flyblown bar on the edge of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid shantytowns"	seamy, seedy, sleazy, squalid, dirty, flyblown

 

Virulent (Adjective)

Type	Meaning	Synonyms	Antonyms
Adjective	1: extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom; "venomous snakes"; "a virulent insect bite" 2: infectious; having the ability to cause disease 3: harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation"; "a vitriolic critique"	deadly, venomous, acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter

 

Ascendancy (Noun)

Type	Meaning	Synonyms	Antonyms
Noun	1: the state that exists when one person or group has power over another; "her apparent ascendancy over her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her"	dominance, ascendance, control

 

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

 

Match Synonyms						Match Antonyms
1	rebuke	A	plenteous	1:		1	amorphous	A	static	1:
2	copious	B	baffled	2:		2	subordinate	B	structured	2:
3	ascendancy	C	trounce	3:		3	gratuitous	C	dominant	3:
4	bemused	D	dominance	4:		4	pervade	D	revocable	4:
5	ideology	E	philosophy	5:		5	irrevocable	E	necessary	5:

 

Match Definitions
1	characterized by motion	A	juxtapose	1:
2	being a single and separate person or thing; -William James	B	belabor	2:
3	greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement	C	singular	3:
4	place side by side	D	preeminent	4:
5	beat soundly	E	kinetic	5:

 

Crossword Challenge
1											Across: 2: a deep opening in the earth's surface(5) 4: speed up the progress of; facilitate(8) 7: short account of an incident (especially a biographical one)(8) Down: 1: imaginary or visionary theorization(8) 3: the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle(8) 5: a person who has suffered the death of someone they loved(8) 6: be false to; be dishonest with(6)
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Engligh Language Trivia

Percy Jackson is my favorite character per se !! "per se" is also a Latin phrase which means "in itself". The statement was interesting per se; it did not make much sense in context, however Did you know? - Study of snakes is called "ophiology."

 

Recent Words Learned: ascendancy, virulent, sordid, usurp, indigenous, deride, singular, ideology, extrovert, sanctimonious, polarize, heterogeneous, belabor, piscine, amorphous, willful, culinary, contiguous, kinetic, assuage Answer to Synonyms Matching in worksheet 29: 1:A 2:B 3:C 4:D 5:E Answer to Antonyms Matching in worksheet 29: 1:E 2:B 3:D 4:C 5:A Answer to Definitions Matching in worksheet 29: 1:0 2:B 3:E 4:A 5:D Answer to Crossword in worksheet 29: Across: 1: profess, 4: polarize, 8: panacea, 9: belabor Down: 2: singular, 3: hedonism, 5: cryptic, 6: piscine, 7: daunt