VOC-1002

open to more than one interpretation; having a double meaning.

• Ambiguous
• Ambivalent
• Ambidextrous
• Amphibian

My students are very _______________ with each other; they always get along.

• ambiguous
• ambivalent
• ambidextrous
• amicable

The word that is opposite of amicable.

• Difficult
• hostile
• friendly
• Rich

camaraderie means

• affinity

• docility

• hostility

• fellowship

Answer explanation

Camaraderie is a spirit of good friendship and loyalty among members of a group. You might not like your job, but still enjoy the camaraderie of the people you work with.

Example: Since my students are amicable

with one another, they have great camaraderie.

camaraderie -- (n) (trust, sociability amongst friends)

Reminiscent means

• radical

• rigid

• remindful

• futuristic

Answer explanation

If your uncle tells you that your outfit is reminiscent of the way your mother dressed when she was young, it means your clothes remind him of your mother. Hopefully that doesn't mean your mother is still dressing you.

Reminiscent traces back to the Latin for "remember." If a house is reminiscent of your childhood home, it makes you remember your childhood home. Reminiscent can have a good or bad implication. If you tell someone that her paintings are reminiscent of a chimp's finger paintings, obviously that's not so good. But if you tell her that they're reminiscent of Dali, well that might be better.

Infallibility means

• the quality of never making an error

• the trait of being generous and openhanded

• the quality of being harsh, severe, or forbidding

• the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded

Answer explanation

If you don't make mistakes and you're never wrong, you can claim infallibility. (You're going to have to own up to self-deception, too, because, well, humans make mistakes.)

If you're convinced of the infallibility of your sense of direction, you won't worry at all when you're deep in the dark woods at night and your flashlight dies. Maybe you’ll get out of the woods, but human infallibility usually doesn’t last. You may buy into your economics professor's image of infallibility until he comes to class with mismatched socks and toothpaste on his forehead. Infallibility comes from the Latin fallere, "deceive," and with infallibility, you can't be deceived.

The opposite of sullen is:

• inactive

• extremist

• cheerful

• terrifying

Answer explanation

A bad-tempered or gloomy person is sullen. Sullen people are down in the dumps.

If someone is dark, dour, glum, moody, morose, or sour, they're also sullen. Teenagers are often described as sullen, especially when they're being grumpy and silent. You often hear about "a sullen silence," which is when someone is quiet, but obviously in a lousy mood. If a sullen person is talking, they're probably not saying much, and they might not be doing much beyond grunting. A sullen person isn't much fun to be around.

Rapturously means

• actively poisonous; intensely noxious

• in a way that expresses extreme pleasure or enthusiasm for somebody/something

• extremely angry; furious

• a thunderous verbal attack

Answer explanation

(full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight)

Some may think early college is

___________, but you will appreciate it down the road.

• happenstance

• traditional

• honorable

• onerous

Answer explanation

If one teacher gives you three hours of homework a night, that's rough. But if all of your teachers do it, that makes the task of completing your homework an onerous one, to say the least. If something is onerous, it is very difficult to deal with or do.

A near synonym is burdensome. In legal usage, onerous describes a contract or lease that has more obligations than advantages. Onerous derives from Middle English, from Old French onereus, from Latin onerōsus, from onus "burden." In English, an onus is a task or duty that is onerous, or very difficult.

That sounds like the epitome of manufacturing efficiency in our globalized economies.

In this sentence, epitome means:

• a distinctive odor that is pleasant

• a standard or typical example

• cord or ribbon worn as an insignia of honor or rank

• a natural talent

Answer explanation

Epitome: Although I may be biased; I think you are

the epitome of an awesome group of kids.

Epitome - (noun) a person or thing that is typical of or

possesses to a high degree the features of a whole class (a prime

example of something)