Sadlier-Oxford Vocabulary Workshop, Level F: Unit V (5)

Sadlier-Oxford Vocabulary Workshop, Level F: Unit V (5)

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Word Bank

amnesty equitable precept soporific

autonomy extricate salutary straitlaced

axiomatic filch scathing transient

blazon flout scourge unwieldy

caveat fractious sepulchral vapid

1.  ______(n.) a warning or caution to prevent misunderstanding or discourage behavior

a.  The Latin phrase “ ______emptor” means “Let the buyer beware.”

b.  Synonyms: admonition, word to the wise

2.  ______(v.) to mock, treat with contempt

a.  She chose to ignore my advice, not because she wanted to ______my beliefs, but because she had strong opinions of her own.

b.  Synonyms: scoff at, sneer at, snicker at, scorn

c.  Antonyms: obey, honor, revere, uphold

3.  ______(n.) a rule of conduct or action

a.  Many religions follow the ______that it is important to treat others as you, yourself, would like to be treated.

b.  Synonyms: principle, maxim

4.  ______(adj.) bitterly severe, withering; causing great harm

a.  Sometimes a carefully reasoned discussion does more to change people’s minds than a ______attack.

b.  Synonyms: searing, harsh, ferocious, savage

c.  Antonyms: bland, mild

5.  ______(adj.) tending to cause sleep, relating to sleepiness or lethargy; (n.) something that induces sleep

a.  He claimed that the musical, despite its energy, was ______and that he had slept through the entire second act

Shakespeare’s Juliet drinks a ______so as to appear dead – a trick she is soon to regret.

b.  Synonyms: narcotic, anesthetic

c.  Antonyms: stimulating, stimulant, stimulus

6.  ______(adj.) lasting only a short time, fleeting; (n.) one who stays only a short time

a.  His bad mood was ______, and by the time he’d finished his breakfast, he was smiling.

Many farm hands lived the lives of ______during the Great Depression.

b.  Synonyms: impermanent, ephemeral, evanescent

c.  Antonyms: permanent, imperishable, immortal

7.  ______(n.) a general pardon for an offense against a government; in general, any act of forgiveness or absolution

a.  Many political prisoners were freed under the ______granted by the new regime.

8.  ______(adj.) self-evident, expressing a universally accepted principle or rule

a.  One should not accept the idea that the camera never lies as an ______truth.

b.  Synonyms: taken for granted

c.  Antonyms: questionable, dubious, controversial

9.  ______(adj.) fair, just, embodying principles of justice

a.  He did more work, so a sixty-forty split of the profits seemed an ______arrangement.

b.  Synonyms: right, reasonable, evenhanded

c.  Antonyms: unjust, unfair, one-sided, disproportionate

10.  ______(adj.) beneficial, helpful; healthful, wholesome

a.  The cute new puppy had a ______effect on her health.

b.  Synonyms: salubrious, curative

c.  Antonyms: detrimental, deleterious, pernicious

11.  ______(adj.) funereal, typical of the tomb; extremely gloomy or dismal

a.  My sister announced in a severe and ______tone of voice that we were out of cookies.

b.  Synonyms: doleful, lugubrious, mortuary

12.  ______(adj.) dull, uninteresting, tiresome; lacking sharpness, flavor, liveliness, or force

a.  While critics called the movie ______, I thought the performers were very compelling.

b.  Synonyms: insipid, lifeless, colorless

c.  Antonyms: zesty, spicy, savory, colorful, lively

13.  ______(n.) self-government, political control

a.  Even after the thirteen colonies gained ______from England, many Americans clung to English traditions.

b.  Synonyms: home rule

c.  Antonyms: dependence, subjection, colonial status

14.  ______(v.) to free from entanglements or difficulties; to remove with effort

a.  The ring must have slid off my finger as I was trying to ______the fish from the net.

b.  Synonyms: disentangle, extract, disengage

c.  Antonyms: enmesh, entangle, involve

15.  ______(adj.) tending to be troublesome; unruly, quarrelsome, contrary; unpredictable

a.  It seems as if even the smoothest-running organizations contain one or two ______elements.

b.  Synonyms: refractory, recalcitrant, peevish

c.  Antonyms: docile, tractable, cooperative

16.  ______(adj.) extremely strict in regard to moral standards and conduct; prudish, puritanical

a.  Travelers may find people overseas ______in some ways but surprisingly free in others.

b.  Synonyms: highly conventional, overly strict, stuffy

c.  Antonyms: lax, loose, indulgent, permissive, dissolute

17.  ______(adj.) not easily carried, handled, or managed because of size or complexity

a.  We loaded the truck with the chairs and the coffee table, but the grand piano was too ______.

b.  Synonyms: cumbersome, bulky, clumsy, impractical

c.  Antonyms: manageable, easy to handle

18.  ______(v.) to adorn or embellish; to display conspicuously; to publish or proclaim widely

a.  They will ______the results of the election across the Internet and every television set in the land.

b.  Synonyms: broadcast, trumpet

c.  Antonyms: hide, conceal, cover up, bury

19.  ______(v.) to steal, especially in a sneaky way and in petty amounts

a.  If you ______pennies from the cash drawer, you are unlikely, after a while, to be satisfied with only pennies.

b.  Synonyms: pilfer, purloin, swipe

20.  ______(v.) to whip, punish severely; (n.) a cause of affliction or suffering; a source of severe punishment or criticism

a.  Jonathan Swift used wit to ______the British government for its cruel treatment of Ireland

Competing teams consider my daughter to be the ______of the soccer field.

b.  Synonyms: (v.) flog, beat; (n.) bane, plague, pestilence

c.  Antonyms: (n.) godsend, boon, blessing

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