Vocabulary Grade 11 — Set 2: Practice flashcards
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Thirty-three sentence-completion questions on the Set 2 words: four choices, one blank, context clues that settle it, and why the most tempting wrong answer fails.
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After eight rejections, Ana kept revising her grant application, reworking it each time around the reviewers' comments, and her ______ effort finally won a small award in the spring.
A) lethargic
B) dogged
C) grudging
D) obstinateB) doggedCharacter & Behavior
Refusing to give up through eight rejections is dogged. Obstinate is tempting, but it means stubbornly refusing to change, and Ana changed her application every time to answer the reviewers. -
Coach Vance refused to bench the shortstop on the strength of mere ______: a classmate had heard from his cousin that the shortstop skipped school on Friday, and the attendance office had no record of it.
A) euphemism
B) hearsay
C) heresy
D) hyperboleB) hearsayThinking & Knowing
A claim passed along secondhand that nothing backs up is hearsay. Hyperbole is tempting as another kind of unreliable talk, but hyperbole is deliberate exaggeration, and nothing suggests the rumor was overstated. -
Within three years of selling his app company, the young founder had ______ the entire fortune, and his house was sold at auction to pay his debts; the money had gone on sports cars, a private jet and restaurants that failed.
A) dissipated
B) procured
C) accrued
D) waivedA) dissipatedActions & Effort
Wasting money foolishly on cars, a jet and doomed restaurants means he dissipated the fortune. Accrued is tempting as a money word, but accrue means to build up gradually, and he ended in debt. -
The light still flashes every night, but the keeper's cottage beside it is ______, its windows smashed and its iron stairs rusted through since the last keeper left in 1968.
A) antiquated
B) sumptuous
C) capacious
D) derelictD) derelictChange & Growth
Smashed windows and rusted stairs after decades of emptiness describe a building abandoned and falling apart: derelict. Antiquated is tempting because the cottage is old, but antiquated means old-fashioned and unsuited to modern needs, not abandoned and crumbling. -
The museum removed the ______ caption within a day, after visitors complained that it described the fishing families in the old photograph with an ugly insult.
A) objectionable
B) iridescent
C) inconsequential
D) ludicrousA) objectionableQuality & Judgment
A caption that insults people and draws complaints is offensive enough that people object: objectionable. Ludicrous is tempting as another word for a bad caption, but it means so foolish that it is laughable, and nobody was laughing at an insult. -
Doctors kept the fevered sailors on a small island outside the harbor until the illness passed, hoping to prevent ______ among the crowded city's two hundred thousand residents.
A) dregs
B) metamorphosis
C) cataclysm
D) contagionD) contagionNature & Time
Keeping sick sailors apart to protect the city aims to stop disease spreading by close contact: contagion. Cataclysm is tempting as a word for disaster, but it means a sudden, violent event like a flood or a war, not the spread of illness.
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