sat vocab. lesson 10 pg. 93 quiz on friday, jan.9th
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SAT Vocab. Lesson 10
• Pg. 93
Quiz on Friday, Jan.9th
fallible (adj.)capable of error; imperfect
All humans are fallible and sometimes make mistakes.
blatant (adj.)obvious; deliberate; unconcealed
His blatant efforts to get the girl’s attention were embarrassing to everyone.
dawdle (verb)to waste time; tarry; loiter
Bill, not wanting to go back to work, dawdled in the break room.
affiliate (noun)an associate; a partner; a colleague
He denied that he was an affiliate of any organized-crime families.
fawn (verb)to act slavishly submissive; grovel
The young dancers fawned over the master of the ball and longed to be his partner.
calumny (noun)a false & malicious accusation; slander; slur
The candidate said that the accusation against him was a calumny meant to damage his reputation.
berate (verb)to scold or rebuke severely and at length;
reprimand; admonish
The coach berated the three players for arriving at the game late.
minion (noun)a fawning, servile follower; lackey
The bully’s minions obeyed him not out of loyalty, but out of fear.
desolate (adj.)lonely; forlorn; uninhabited; barren
The castaway spent four years on a desolate island, many miles from the mainland.
bane (noun)the cause of ruin, harm, distress or death; blight;
curse
The bane of the defeated alien invaders turned out to be the common cold.
pacify (verb)to calm down; appease; placate
Grandmother was able to pacify the irritable baby.
garble (verb)to mix up or distort; jumble; corrupt
Jill’s speech would have been good if she had not garbled the facts.
"I'm telling you there's an enemy that would like to attack America, Americans, again. There just is. That's the reality of the world. And I wish him all the very best." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Jan. 12, 2009
"I've been in the Bible every day since I've been the president." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Nov. 12, 2008
prevaricate (verb)to lie; hedge
When asked about the crime, Jim prevaricated because he did not want to incriminate his friend.
filch (verb)to steal; pilfer; pinch
The woman filched my purse when I left the room to answer the telephone.
neophyte (noun)a beginner; a novice; an amateur
Though Sara was a neophyte at golf, she outplayed most of the veterans.
Exercise I – Words in Context p. 94
1. To avoid prosecution, the crime boss relied
on his _ to do his dirty work for him. The
_______ of the organization knew that if they
were arrested, they took the fall alone;
however, the boss’s overconfidence in his
associates proved to be his _____ when Knox, a
hit man, testified against him in court.
The boss claimed, of course, that the
testimony was merely a spiteful
______ designed to embarrass him;
however, the boss could not
__________ cleverly enough to
convince the jury that he was
innocent.
2. Gina couldn’t stand her friend’s
______ attempt to get Lonnie to ask
her to the dance. For weeks, Jamie
_______ Lonnie, even though he
barely recognized her when they
passed in the hall. Occasionally, Gina
______ her friend for being so foolish.
“Don’t _______ by waiting for him,”
Gina would say. “The dance is tomorrow;
ask someone you actually know.” Jamie
usually got angry when Gina lectured her.
“Will you leave me alone, please?” Gina
often replied. “I’m almost ready to take my
dog to the dance just to ________ your
nagging.”
3. “Even the most experienced hikers are
______ in climates as harsh as this one,”
said the desert guide as he turned and
squinted at the miles of ________ sand
dunes that stretched ahead on the
horizon. “If there’s one message that I
can’t ______ , it’s to bring plenty of water.
You _________ who haven’t hiked in the
desert before will soon learn that once
you’re out there in the dunes, water is
nonexistent. What you manage to
_________ from the various plants or from
beneath the ground will not be enough to
sustain you.”
p. 96 Homework:Exercise II – Sentence Completion
1. Affiliates of the organization were invited to
2. Craig garbles his speech when . . .
3. I’m just a neophyte at this card game, so please. . .
4. In a small town, spreading calumny about someone could . . .
5. That sports car is bound to be your bane if you continue to . . .
6. The desolate barn was the perfect place for . . .
7. If you dawdle all night, you won’t . . .
8. The cab driver berated the pedestrian who . . .
9. Nicole learned that even computers can be fallible when she . . .
10. Some of the fans at the concert fawned over
. . .
11. The pickpocket must have filched my wallet when he . . .
12. When asked by his wife how the new dress fit, Randy prevaricated because he thought . . .
13. Neil was asked to leave the restaurant after his blatant attempt to . . .
14. The crooked government official was never arrested because it was his minions who
. . .
15. Jenny had to pacify her dog after it . . .