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	coerce	A	belabour	1:		1	irrevocable	A	formal	1:
2	relinquish	B	pressure	2:		2	obtuse	B	acute	2:
3	delude	C	deceive	3:		3	amorphous	C	introvert	3:
4	belabor	D	release	4:		4	extrovert	D	formed	4:
5	copious	E	plentiful	5:		5	colloquial	E	revocable	5:

 

Match Definitions
1	keep from happening or arising; make impossible	A	bemused	1:
2	humorously sarcastic or mocking	B	frenetic	2:
3	excessively agitated; transported with rage or other violent emotion	C	criterion	3:
4	deeply absorbed in thought	D	preclude	4:
5	the ideal in terms of which something can be judged	E	ironic	5:

 

Crossword Challenge
1					2						Across: 2: having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity(5) 4: be false to; be dishonest with(6) 6: praise, glorify, or honor(5) 7: tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health(8) Down: 1: an interruption in the intensity or amount of something(6) 2: pass through(8) 3: imaginary or visionary theorization(8) 5: cause to lose courage(5) 8: strong and sharp(5)
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Engligh Language Trivia

What does Root word "rub" mean? Root word "rub" comes from Latin, meaning red. Examples: ruby - deep red color and a precious stone of the same color; rubella - measles; bilirubin - reddish pigment in bile. Did you know? - Fear of nudity is called "Gymnophobia."

 

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 Synonyms Matching in worksheet 32: 1:D 2:E 3:C 4:A 5:B Answer to Antonyms Matching in worksheet 32: 1:B 2:A 3:E 4:C 5:D Answer to Definitions Matching in worksheet 32: 1:C 2:E 3:A 4:D 5:B Answer to Crossword in worksheet 32: Across: 1: polarize, 3: portent, 5: daunt, 6: tenet Down: 1: profess, 2: anecdote, 3: peruse, 4: genre