Vocabulary Grade 11 — Set 3: Practice flashcards
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Thirty-four sentence-completion questions on the Set 3 words: four choices, one blank, context clues that settle it, and why the most tempting wrong answer fails.
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Ninety-year-old Mr. Varghese is the chess club's most ______ player: he leaves a bishop where it looks free for the taking, and when a young opponent grabs it, he springs a perfectly legal trap that its victims end up applauding.
A) fallible
B) wily
C) conniving
D) vivaciousB) wilyCharacter & Behavior
Baiting opponents with a piece that only looks free, then springing a trap, is being good at using tricks to outwit others and get your way: wily. Conniving is tempting, since he plans the trick in secret, but conniving means scheming to do something harmful or dishonest, and a legal trap its victims applaud is neither. -
Two-year-old Ivy's long, serious speeches in a language entirely her own ______ her grandparents completely, though they nodded along, delighted, as if they understood every word.
A) disheartened
B) mystified
C) alienated
D) irkedB) mystifiedThinking & Knowing
Speeches in a language no one else knows leave listeners completely puzzled: Ivy's speeches mystified her grandparents. Irked is tempting, since they could not work out a word, but irk means annoying someone, and these grandparents were delighted, not annoyed. -
The three transfer students who joined advanced chemistry two weeks into the term ______ in their first lab, unsure which beaker held what and copying whatever the students beside them did, until the teacher stayed late to catch them up.
A) floundered
B) convened
C) tottered
D) hobbledA) flounderedActions & Effort
Not knowing which beaker held what and copying whatever their neighbors did is struggling, unsure what to do: the transfer students floundered. Tottered is tempting, since they were shaky in a new class, but totter means wobbling as if ready to topple over, or growing shaky and coming close to collapse, and they were confused, not unsteady. -
Two weeks after pneumonia sent her to rest at her sister's farmhouse, Ms. Jensen had begun to ______: her cough was nearly gone, she walked a little farther each morning and she even asked for a stack of essays to grade.
A) recuperate
B) falter
C) acclimate
D) hobbleA) recuperateChange & Growth
A fading cough, longer walks and a request for work show her getting back her health and strength: she had begun to recuperate. Acclimate is tempting, since she is staying at her sister's farmhouse, but acclimate means slowly adjusting until unfamiliar conditions, like a colder climate or a strange house, start to feel normal, and these are signs of recovering from pneumonia, not of settling in. -
Locals have long judged every new bagel shop in town by a single ______: is its plain bagel as good as the one at Ruthie's, the Front Street bakery that opened in 1958?
A) yardstick
B) quip
C) hallmark
D) maximA) yardstickQuality & Judgment
Comparing every new bagel against Ruthie's is judging by a standard: Ruthie's is the town's yardstick. Hallmark is tempting, since a great plain bagel can be a shop's signature, but a hallmark is a trait that is a sure sign of a certain person or thing, not a benchmark that others are held up against and judged by. -
Over one winter, moth larvae ______ the wool costumes in the theater's basement, eating holes through most of the cloaks and gowns, though the few packed in sealed bins came through untouched.
A) ravaged
B) annihilated
C) obliterated
D) saturatedA) ravagedNature & Time
Holes eaten through most of the cloaks and gowns mean the costumes were badly damaged: the larvae ravaged them. Obliterated is tempting, since the damage was severe, but obliterate means destroying something completely, leaving no trace, and the holed costumes still exist and a few came through untouched.
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