Vocabulary Grade 10 — Set 2: Practice flashcards
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Thirty-three sentence-completion questions on the Set 2 words: four choices, one blank, and why the tempting wrong answer fails.
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Townspeople described the old ferryman as truly ______: in forty years he never overcharged a passenger, never told a lie and always shared his catch with families in need.
A) virtuous
B) pious
C) shrewd
D) brazenA) virtuousCharacter & Behavior
Honest prices, no lies and generosity add up to high moral standards: virtuous. Pious is tempting, but it means devoted to religion, and the sentence says nothing about faith or worship. -
When the beloved oak in the schoolyard had to be cut down, students gathered to ______ its loss, sharing sad stories about the shade and the rope swing it once held.
A) brood
B) reminisce
C) gloat
D) lamentD) lamentFeelings & Attitudes
Gathering to share "sad stories" about a loss is expressing grief: lament. Reminisce is tempting because they recall the past, but reminiscing is pleasant remembering, and it needs "about": no one reminisces a loss. -
The new club president threw herself into the recycling project with boundless ______, working through lunch, recruiting forty volunteers and painting bins for every hallway within a month.
A) conviction
B) zeal
C) composure
D) drudgeryB) zealActions & Effort
Working through lunch and doing so much so fast show a burning eagerness: zeal. Conviction is tempting because she clearly believes in recycling, but conviction is a firm belief, not the burst of energy described. -
The summer workshop pairs ______ filmmakers, most of them teenagers who have shot only a few short videos on their phones, with professional editors and camera operators.
A) distinctive
B) budding
C) prestigious
D) stuntedB) buddingChange & Growth
Teenagers with only a few videos are just beginning and show promise: budding. Stunted is tempting because these filmmakers are not yet fully developed, but stunted describes growth that something has held back, and nothing in the sentence is holding these beginners back: they have simply just started. -
The hospital's new children's wing was paid for entirely through ______, as hundreds of local families and businesses donated money to help sick kids get care close to home.
A) vocation
B) philanthropy
C) alchemy
D) aristocracyB) philanthropySociety & Power
Donating money to help others is philanthropy. Vocation is tempting because helping sick children sounds like a calling, but a vocation is the career someone feels born to do, and these donors were giving money, not working there. -
Gardeners noticed brown spots spreading across the tomato leaves and feared a ______ that could wither every plant in the community garden within a few weeks.
A) influx
B) stigma
C) blight
D) tremorC) blightNature & Time
A spreading disease that withers plants is a blight. Stigma is tempting because it is also a plant word, the flower part that catches pollen, but it is not a disease.
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