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	abortive	A	stillborn	1:		1	flora	A	fauna	1:
2	zealous	B	polarise	2:		2	exalt	B	revocable	2:
3	infinitesimal	C	adjoining	3:		3	amorphous	C	formed	3:
4	polarize	D	avid	4:		4	pervade	D	sad	4:
5	contiguous	E	minute	5:		5	irrevocable	E	static	5:

 

Match Definitions
1	uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing	A	unremitting	1:
2	angered at something unjust or wrong	B	hedonism	2:
3	very close or connected in space or time	C	relinquish	3:
4	do without or cease to hold or adhere to	D	indignant	4:
5	the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle	E	contiguous	5:

 

Crossword Challenge
			1		2	3					Across: 6: speed up the progress of; facilitate(8) 7: characterized by motion(7) 8: marked by active interest and enthusiasm(7) 9: brief and to the point; effectively cut short(5) Down: 1: a style of expressing yourself in writing(5) 2: of or relating to fish(7) 3: cause to lose courage(5) 4: plausible but false(8) 5: attack verbally with harsh criticism(7)
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Engligh Language Trivia

"My report said - "status quo". Does it mean I repeat grade 4?" "Status quo" comes from Latin meaning "the existing state of things". The point of having her elected was for the reigning party to perpetuate the status quo. Did you know? - Study of pronunciation is called "tonetics."

 

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 Synonyms Matching in worksheet 35: 1:B 2:C 3:A 4:D 5:E Answer to Antonyms Matching in worksheet 35: 1:E 2:B 3:C 4:A 5:D Answer to Definitions Matching in worksheet 35: 1:B 2:E 3:C 4:A 5:D Answer to Crossword in worksheet 35: Across: 4: assuage, 6: felicity, 7: perturb Down: 1: piscine, 2: guile, 3: monarchy, 5: squander