Vocabulary Grade 10 — Set 1: Practice flashcards
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Thirty-three sentence-completion questions on the Set 1 words: four choices, one blank, and why the tempting wrong answer fails.
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Priya's ______ that the compost plan would work came from a year of testing it at home, and no amount of doubt from her classmates could shake her certainty.
A) delusion
B) solace
C) zeal
D) convictionD) convictionFeelings & Attitudes
"Certainty" that the plan would work is a firm belief: conviction. Zeal is tempting, but it is eager energy, not a belief that something is true; delusion fails because a year of testing makes her belief well founded. -
When the school board allowed one club to skip its fees, the other clubs immediately cited that decision as a ______ and asked for exactly the same treatment.
A) premise
B) predecessor
C) proposition
D) precedentD) precedentSpeaking & Arguing
A past decision that later requests can cite and follow is a precedent. Predecessor looks similar and also means something earlier, but a predecessor is a person or thing that was replaced, not a ruling others can point to. -
The librarian's patient tutoring was ______ in helping Omar pass his citizenship test; he says he could never have learned all the civics answers without her.
A) instrumental
B) dutiful
C) archaic
D) diminutiveA) instrumentalActions & Effort
"Could never have learned... without her" means she played a key part in his success: instrumental. Dutiful is tempting because she worked faithfully, but dutiful describes obeying duty, not causing a result. -
A row of tall pines along the north edge of the garden helps ______ the bitter winter winds, so the tender herbs planted behind it survive until spring.
A) curtail
B) aggravate
C) temper
D) heightenC) temperSize & Amount
The pines tone down the harsh winds: they temper them. Curtail is tempting because it means to reduce, but it is used for cutting back activities or spending, not softening weather. -
Birdwatchers can identify the red-winged blackbird by its ______ song, a loud "conk-la-ree" that sounds like no other bird in the marsh.
A) commonplace
B) lackluster
C) definitive
D) distinctiveD) distinctiveQuality & Judgment
A song that "sounds like no other bird" singles the blackbird out from every other singer in the marsh: distinctive. Definitive looks similar but means final or most authoritative, which says nothing about how a sound stands out. -
Few visitors know the ______ of the city's giant kite festival: three bored neighbors started it as a backyard contest on a windy afternoon in 1962.
A) cessation
B) demise
C) pinnacle
D) genesisD) genesisNature & Time
Three neighbors starting a contest in 1962 is how the festival came to be: its genesis. Demise is tempting as another turning-point word, but it means the end, and the festival is still going.
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