Unit 1 Vocabulary AP

5 Written Questions

1. (n.) something added to something else as helpful or useful but not essential; an assistant or helper; a valuable quality or characteristic; (adj.) added or connected in a subordinate capacity; attached to a faculty or staff in an auxiliary capacity
   SYN: (n.) associate, addition, accessory
2. (n.) good-humored ridicule; teasing
   SYN: banter, persiflage
3. (adj.) lacking in wholesome vigor or energy; worn-out or exhausted; sterile or unable to produce; out-of-date
   SYN: decadent, enfeebled, outmoded
   ANT: thriving, burgeoning, vigorous, dynamic
4. (n.) a short description or sketch; a picture or illustration with edges that gradually shade off; a decorative design on the title page of a book or at the beginning or end of a chapter
   SYN: thumbnail sketch, anecdote
   ANT: epic, full-length treatment
5. (adj.) offensive or disgusting; foul-smelling; harmful or injurious
   SYN: fetid, noxious, vile, loathsome
   ANT: wholesome, pleasant, sweet-smelling

5 Matching Questions

1. hierarchy
2. oblivious
3. ribald
4. poltroon
5. proselyte

1. a (n.) a base coward
   SYN: craven, dastard, "chicken"
   ANT: hero, stalwart, gallant
2. b (n.) a convert; a disciple
   SYN: novice, neophyte
   ANT: master, teacher, guide, guru
3. c (adj.) irreverently mocking; coarse, vulgar, or indecent in language
   SYN: bawdy, risque
   ANT: seemly, proper, decorous
4. d (adj.) forgetful; unaware
   SYN: insensible
   ANT: aware, mindful, cognizant, alert
5. e (n.) any system of things or people arranged or graded one above another in order of rank, wealth, class, etc.
   SYN: chain of command, pecking order

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. (adj.) absurd; wildly fantastic; impossible
   SYN: fanciful, visionary, quixotic, pie-in-the-sky
   ANT: realistic, down-to-earth, practicable
   1. caterwaul
   2. ribald
   3. chimerical
   4. hierarchy
2. (n.) a patch of low, soft, wet ground; a swamp; a confusing situation in which one is entrapped, as in quicksand
   SYN: bog, quagmire
   ANT: solid ground, bedrock, terra firma
   1. quasi
   2. morass
   3. ribald
   4. mirage
3. (n.) something illusory, without substance, or without a basis in reality; an illusion
   SYN: optical illusion
   1. quasi
   2. mirage
   3. morass
   4. ribald
4. (n.) the male sheep that leads the flock to the slaughterhouse; a leader, as in a desperate or violent undertaking; an indicator of trends
   SYN: ringleader, initiator, barometer
   ANT: follower, imitator, emulator
   1. vignette
   2. bellwether
   3. raillery
   4. effete
5. (adj.) resembling but not actually being; seemingly but not actually or completely
   SYN: kind of, semi-, as if
   ANT: totally, completely, actually, in fact
   1. quasi
   2. morass
   3. ribald
   4. mirage

5 True/False Questions

1. hidebound → (adj.) irreverently mocking; coarse, vulgar, or indecent in language
   SYN: bawdy, risque
   ANT: seemly, proper, decorous

   True        False

2. supine → (adj.) lying flat on one's back; listless or lethargic; apathetic or passive
   SYN: prone, prostrate, inert
   ANT: upright, erect, perpendicular, vertical

   True        False

3. caterwaul → (adj.) absurd; wildly fantastic; impossible
   SYN: fanciful, visionary, quixotic, pie-in-the-sky
   ANT: realistic, down-to-earth, practicable

   True        False

4. fait accompli → (n.) an accomplished and presumably irreversible deed, fact, or action
   SYN: accomplished fact

   True        False

5. liturgy → (n.) something illusory, without substance, or without a basis in reality; an illusion
   SYN: optical illusion

   True        False