9th grade week 12 vocab

Which of the following is the correct definition of 'sardonic'?

• friendly and outgoing
• grimly or scornfully mocking
• serious and focused
• overly neat, precise, proper, or formal

What does the word 'incessant' mean?

• complicated; difficult to understand
• occurring or published after death
• never stopping, going on all the time
• simple, easy to understand

Which of the following is the correct definition of 'intricate'?

• occurring or published after death
• easy to understand, clear, rational, sane
• complicated; difficult to understand
• never stopping, going on all the time

What does the word 'lucid' mean?

• never stopping, going on all the time
• complicated; difficult to understand
• occurring or published after death
• easy to understand, clear, rational, sane

How are the words 'superfluous' and 'supplant' different?

• they are unrelated
• they are synonyms
• they are antonyms
• they have the same meaning

Which of the following is an example of being 'tenacious'?

• changing your mind frequently
• being disorganized
• holding fast and being persistent
• giving up easily

What does it mean to be 'prim'?

• overly neat, precise, proper, or formal
• messy and disorganized
• friendly and outgoing
• serious and focused

Which of the following is an example of a 'posthumous' event?

• a graduation
• a funeral
• a wedding
• a birthday party

to jeer at, mock, an insulting or mocking remark

• Supplant

• taunt

• heckle

• berate

holding fast; holding together firmly, persistent 

• supplant

• prim

• tenacious

• lucid