Jr. Vocab. Quiz Lesson 3

Teenagers sometimes show ___ toward parental suggestions that they clean up their rooms.

• antagonism

• antithesis

• atrophy

• authoritarian

Surprisingly, Donna is the ___ of what she had promised to do.

• antagonism

• antithesis

• atrophy

• authoritarian

Her ___ fears fooled no one.

• apocryphal

• arduous

• augment

• austere

Climbing Mr. Everest is an ___ undertaking.

• apocryphal

• arduous

• articulate

• austere

Being ___, Ellyn was able to do well on her job interviews.

• apocryphal

• arduous

• articulate

• austere

Mother hastened to the bedroom to ___ Beth's fears.

• assuage

• atrophy

• augment

• austere

Failure to exercise your muscles may cause them to ___.

• assuage

• atrophy

• augment

• austere

If we ___ our arms stockpile, the Russians will do the same.

• assuage

• atrophy

• augment

• authoritarian

The rebel colonel claimed to have an affinity for democracy, but we knew that he was an ___ through and through.

• authoritarian

• antagonism

• antithesis

• apocryphal

Their household, governed by an ___ father, was a humorless and unhappy place.

• austere

• arduous

• articulate

• augment