Vocabulary Unit One s1

Vocabulary – Unit Five Answers

Completing the Sentence

1. No matter what make of automobile you have, it is of paramount importance that you learn to drive safely before you use it.

2. After the opposing speakers had both presented their cases, they were allowed time to rebut each other’s arguments.

3. The fact that you cannot control those small children does not mean that they are incorrigible.

4. Mom and Dad said nothing when I failed the examination, but the disappointed looks on their faces hurt more than the most severe reprimand.

5. It is an unfortunate fact that the militant attitudes of Germany’s Kaiser and his saber-rattling cronies helped make World War I inevitable.

6. Fighting is considered such a(n) brazen violation of the rules of a game that the offending players are usually severely penalized.

7. Many people came to the New World after they had been sentenced to terms of penal servitude for crimes they’d committed.

8. In large areas of the huge swamp, there were stagnant pools of water covered with unmoving masses of green slime.

9. “If you spent more time and effort on your essays, they would cease to be such slapdash affairs,” my older sister wisely observed.

10. The helpful librarian did much to facilitate the research for my term paper.

11. The doctor warned relatives that if the patient’s condition deteriorated any further, he would succumb to pneumonia.

12. It is a frightening fact of modern life that we now possess the weaponry to annihilate not only our enemies but all human kind.

13. In guaranteeing the right to “due process of law,” the Constitution protects Americans against arbitrary arrest and imprisonment.

14. Even though the youngster did not actually steal the vehicle, he acted as one of the thief’s accomplices.

15. The second book of the Old Testament is named for the story it recounts of the exodus of the Israelites from the land of Egypt. 16. Her friends call her “Motormouth” because she has a remarkable capacity to prattle on endlessly about the most trivial matters.

17. If we are going to use this space as a darkroom for photography, we must have a completely opaque covering over the window.

18. Though they had been there all along, Grandma Moses did not discover her latent artistic talents until well into her seventies.

19. When he was suddenly deprived of everything he valued in life, the poor man became extremely gloomy and morose.

20. In certain industrial processes, catalysts speed up the desired reaction by lessening the amount of energy needed to produce it. ------

Synonyms (words that mean the same) 12. incurable incorrigible 13. impudent brazen 1. cloudy opaque 14. chattered prattled 2. demolished annihilated 15. foremost paramount 3. flight exodus 4. reproved reprimanded Antonyms (opposite words) 5. fetid stagnant 6. captivity servitude 16. cheerful morose 7. sloppy slapdash 17. corroborate rebut 8. confederates accomplices 18. manifest latent 9. expired succumbed 19. impeded facilitated 10. activist militant 20. rational arbitrary 11. stimulus catalyst

Choosing the Right Word 10. annihilated 11. slapdash 1. latent 12. reprimand 2. prattling 13. rebut 3. succumb 14. brazen 4. catalyst 15. morose 5. paramount 16. accomplices 6. exodus 17. facilitate 7. opaque 18. servitude 8. arbitrary 19. stagnant 9. incorrigible 20. Militants ------

Vocabulary in Context

1. militant aggressive 4. catalyst spur 2. Annihilate obliterate 5. Succumb yield 3. Paramount supreme