10th Vocab Unit 1: Test

Match the following words to the best definition or synonym.

• to make something greater by adding

• Deploy

• equally skilled with both hands

• Ambidextrous

• lacking

• Adulterate

• to move troops into position for action

• Bereft

• to corrupt

• Augment

Match the following terms with the best definition or synonym.

• a taunt

• Gibe

• to be or become wide open

• Guise

• semblance

• Dour

• courage in pair or adversity

• Gape

• surly

• Fortitude

Match the following terms with the best definition or synonym.

• spreading in a hidden and harmful way

• Reiterate

• a hint or direct suggestion

• Pliable

• flexible

• Opulent

• luxurious

• Insidious

• to say, state, or perform again

• Intimation

Match the following terms with the best definition or synonym.

• dull

• Stolid

• having an untidy appearance

• Tentative

• uncertain

• Warily

• cautiously

• Verbatim

• in exactly the same words

• Unkempt

Match the following sentence with the term that best completes it.

• fortitude

• To this day, historians are still debating whether or not Aaron Burr was guilty of a(n) _____ to break up the United States.

• No Match

• Why would anyone who is usually so neat and well-dressed appear in public in such a(n) _____ state?

• insidious

• What a tragedy that in the twilight of her life, the unfortunate woman should be _____ of all her loved ones.

• unkempts

• America's earliest settlers faced the hardships of life on the frontier with faith and _____.

• dour

• The _____ expressions on the jurors' faces as they grimly filed back into the courtroom did not bode well for the defendant.

Synonyms: ridicule, mock, deride, jeer

• gibe

• opulent

• bereft

• dour

Antonyms: fearfulness, faintheartedness

• fortitude

• intimation

• augment

• deploy

Synonyms: station, organize

• deploy

• opulent

• gape

• gibe

Antonyms: decrease, diminish

• augment

• dour

• insidious

• fortitude

Synonyms: contaminate, pullute, sully

• adulterate

• augment

• bereft

• deploy