Advanced Vocabulary Quiz for Seniors

What is the term for an abusive and bitter attack through speech or writing?

• Dichotomy

• Diatribe

• Diction

• Didactic

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Which word describes a difference between two opposite things?

• Dichotomy

• Digress

• Disingenuous

• Disparate

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

What term refers to the clearness and effectiveness of enunciation when speaking, or choice of words?

• Diction

• Didactic

• Discern

• Eclectic

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Which word means designed to teach people something?

• Digress

• Didactic

• Extrapolate

• Ethereal

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

What does it mean to go off on a tangent or leave the main subject?

• Discern

• Disingenuous

• Digress

• Emulate

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

Which term means to perceive or recognize something?

• Discern

• Disingenuous

• Formidable

• Hackneyed

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

Which term is used to describe someone who is not honest or sincere?

• Disingenuous

• Disparate

• Formidable

• Hackneyed

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

What word describes things that are different from each other or unlike?

• Disparate

• Eclectic

• Indolent

• Iconoclast

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

What does the abbreviation "e.g." stand for?

• That is

• For example

• And so on

• In other words

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

What word describes elements from a diverse range of sources?

• Erudite

• Eclectic

• Eschew

• Indolent

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E