Vocabulary Grade 12 — Set 1: Practice flashcards
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Because the bus company alone had ignored months of warnings about its failing brakes, the investigators held it fully ______ for the crash and ordered it to pay the injured families.
A) complicit
B) meritorious
C) unimpeachable
D) culpableD) culpableCharacter & Behavior
Held responsible for the crash after ignoring warnings means deserving blame: culpable. Complicit is tempting, but it means involved with others in wrongdoing, and the company acted alone; meritorious and unimpeachable would praise it. -
Over thirty years, the retired engineer wrote a five-hundred-page ______ that examined every aspect of bridge design, building one long, careful argument from the first chapter to the last.
A) compendium
B) tract
C) oration
D) treatiseD) treatiseThinking & Knowing
A long, formal work that examines one subject in depth is a treatise. Compendium is tempting, but it is a collection gathered from many sources, not one long argument; a tract is a short pamphlet, and an oration is a speech. -
For nearly a decade, the old neighborhood was in ______: no new houses went up, none came down, and the same families lived on every block.
A) stasis
B) deadlock
C) atrophy
D) attritionA) stasisActions & Effort
Nothing being built, torn down or changing is stasis. Deadlock is tempting, but it is a standoff between two evenly matched sides, and no one here disagrees; attrition and atrophy mean a gradual decline, but the neighborhood held steady. -
Every May, the moment final exams end, the little college town sees a sudden ______ of students, and by Sunday its dorms, pizza shops and bookstores stand nearly empty.
A) tumult
B) dissolution
C) gradation
D) exodusD) exodusChange & Growth
Students leaving together, suddenly, is a mass departure: an exodus. Tumult is tempting because a crowd of students is on the move, but a tumult is a loud, confused uproar, and the clue is the empty dorms they leave behind; dissolution is the formal shutting down of a club, company or other body, and a gradation is one rung on a ladder of small differences. -
Reviewers called the new fantasy series ______, pointing out that its chosen-one hero, wise old mentor and secret school of magic were borrowed almost directly from far more famous books.
A) overblown
B) emblematic
C) derivative
D) tawdryC) derivativeQuality & Judgment
Elements "borrowed almost directly" from other books make the series unoriginal: derivative. Overblown is tempting because the reviewers are finding fault, but it means exaggerated, and their complaint is copying; emblematic means serving as a symbol, and tawdry means cheap and showy, which the reviewers never say. -
The poet's early verses are gently ______, filled with shepherds, grazing lambs, open meadows and the calm rhythms of a simple farming life far from any city.
A) sylvan
B) primeval
C) pastoral
D) apocalypticC) pastoralNature & Time
Shepherds, meadows and calm, simple farm life are the marks of the pastoral. Sylvan is tempting because it is also about the countryside, but it means wooded, and these poems are set in open fields, not forests.
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