Vocabulary Grade 11 — Set 1: In Context flashcards
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Caught turning in my history essay word for word as his own, Leo had the ______ to claim that I had copied him.gallFeelings & Attitudes
Accusing the very classmate he copied from is shameless boldness. Fortitude is courage through hardship, and nothing about this lie is admirable. -
Visitors often leave the museum's last room in tears, for its most ______ exhibit is a child's single mitten found after the flood, beside a note from her mother.poignantFeelings & Attitudes
The exhibit stirs deep sadness in those who see it. Forlorn would describe the mitten looking lonely and abandoned, not its power to move visitors to tears. -
Film schools still teach from the same ______ of classics that critics long ago agreed every serious viewer must see, though students now push to add newer films.canonThinking & Knowing
A body of works agreed to be the most important is a canon. A trove is any valuable collection, with no sense of an accepted ranking. -
Told to take down her protest poster, Zara chose to ______ the First Amendment, arguing that the school couldn't remove it just for criticizing the cafeteria.invokeSpeaking & Arguing
Citing a law or right in support of an action is invoke. Allude would mean hinting at it without naming it, and she names it outright. -
Mr. Lund no longer mows the fields himself; as head groundskeeper, his job is to ______ a crew of six and make sure the lines are painted straight.overseeActions & Effort
Being the one who keeps an eye on a crew and checks the quality of its work is oversee. Spearhead leads a campaign, and administer runs a program, not a crew. -
Our single cherry tomato plant was so ______ that by August we were leaving bowls of tomatoes on every neighbor's porch.prolificChange & Growth
A plant that keeps turning out heaps of fruit is prolific. Inexhaustible would mean a supply that can never run out, which no single plant can claim. -
With no laws at all limiting what anglers could take, fishing in the bay went on ______ for decades until the cod were nearly gone.uncheckedSize & Amount
"No laws at all limiting" fishing means it was uncontrolled. Piecemeal would describe work done in scattered stages, which has nothing to do with the missing limits. -
In the newsroom, misspelling a person's name in print is the ______ sin, the one mistake the editor will not forgive.cardinalQuality & Judgment
"Cardinal sin" means the most serious offense of all. Quintessential would describe the classic case of something, not the gravest. -
Rather than leave the decision to the council, the town will put the question of a four-day school week directly to voters in a ______ next March.referendumSociety & Power
A direct public vote on one question is a referendum. The electorate is the voters themselves, not the vote they cast. -
Work on the town's new library has gone on without a single pause, yet its progress has been ______: in three years, the crew has finished only the foundation and one wall.glacialNature & Time
Extremely slow is one sense of glacial. Piecemeal means done in separate stages, and the work has never paused; imperceptible would mean too small to notice, but a foundation and a wall are plain to see.
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