Name: _________________________

Date: _____________

Unit 1 Vocabulary Quiz: (Each question is worth 2.5 pts.)

1) WHAT IS THIS PICTURE OF:

A) Augment
B) Warily
C) Stolid
D) Dour
E) Gape

2) The robot, while being attacked from all sides by the ambidextrous alien monster, ______________ all of its defense systems –
arranging and positioning its silos to protect itself from the impending onslaught.
A) Deployed D) Gibed
B) Augmented E) Pliable
C) Reiterated

3) SYNONYMS: Sloppy, disheveled, disordered, rough

A) Insidious D) Fortitude
B) Opulent E) Unkempt
C) Guise

4) DEFINITION: A hint, indirect suggestion

A) Intimation D) Bereft
B) Warily E) Adulterate
C) Verbatim

5) Many of the New Jersey housewives have attempted to ____________ their wallets by beginning litigious lawsuits against their
ex-husbands.
A) Adulterate D) Gape
B) Augment E) Gibe
C) Deploy

6) WHAT IS THIS PICTURE OF:

A) Fortitude
B) Unkempt
C) Opulent
D) Reiterate
E) Pliable

7) Threshold Guardians can, at times, be very _________; they are easily influenced and often bend to let the hero into the lair of
the beast.
A) Stolid D) Fortitude
B) Insidious E) Dour
C) Pliable

8) WHAT IS THIS PICTURE OF?

A) Gibe
B) Gape
C) Stolid
D) Opulent E) Pliable
9) SYNONYMS: Exact; precisely; copied word-for-word 10) SYNONYMS: contaminate, pollute, sully
A) Pliable A) Bereft
B) Ambidextrous B) Adulterate
C) Bereft C) Dour
D) Deploy D) Unkempt
E) Verbatim E) Stolid

11) Mr. Toncic surveys the room ________, as he cautiously both reads and walks around the class simultaneously with great care;
he often also walks straight into the podium and wonders who put it in the classroom.
A) Verbatim D) Gapingly
B) Pliably E) Guised
C) Warily

12) DRAW (TO THE RIGHT) THE FOLLOWING WORD:

STOLID

13) Mr. Toncic is known for setting __________ dates for returning graded papers because he often writes copious comments and
notes on them, taking much longer than initially planned for.
A) Reiterated
B) Bereft
C) Deployed
D) Dour
E) Tentative

14) The monkey who could simultaneously play XBOX, PS3, 3DS, Vita, and PC video games was known by his fellow comrade
primates as ______________ since he was able to use both hands equally well.
A) Augmented
B) Ambidextrous
C) Guised
D) Opulent
E) Insidious

15) SYNONYMS: cunning, underhanded, perfidious, evil 16) SYNONYMS: clue, indication, inkling
A) Gibe A) Intimation
B) Fortitude B) Gibe
C) Opulent C) Fortitude
D) Insidious D) Insidious
E) Unkempt E) Tentative

17) Mr. Toncic once wore such a clever __________ that many people mistook him for the real gold-chain-wearing, “fool pitying,”
Mr. T.
A) Gibe A) Adulteration
B) Gape B) Ambidextrous
C) Guise C) Augment
D) Unkempt D) Pliable
E) Pliable E Fortitude

18) DEFINITION: to stare with open mouth; to open mouth 20) Please answer this final question, Please answer this final
wide question, Please answer this final question:
A) Guise A) Reiterate
B) Opulent B) Warily
C) Bereft C) Stolid
D) Augment D) Pliable
E) Gape E) Bereft

19) DEFINITION: Courage in facing difficulties