scholarship lesson 17

Question 1

alleviate, assuage, calm, mitigate, quiet, ease, pacify

Answer 1

allay

Question 1

abolish, annul, nullify, invalidate, renege, repeal

Answer 1

abrogate

Question 2

freakish, grotesque, strange, ridiculous, weird, odd

Answer 2

bizarre

Question 3

bold, cheeky, audacious, foolhardy, impudent, presumptuous, rude

Answer 3

brash

Question 3

encounter, meet, defy, face, resist, flout

Answer 3

confront

Question 3

small, lilliputian, miniature, tiny, miniscule

Answer 3

diminutive

Question 4

devastation, catastrophe, cataclysm, ruin

Answer 4

havoc

Question 4

destroy, disassemble, raze, demolish, decimate, divest

Answer 4

dismantle

Question 5

alarm, disgust, dismay, petrify, appall, daunt, intimidate

Answer 5

horrify

Question 6

disproportionate, immoderate, unreasonable, excessive, unwarranted

Answer 6

inordinate

Question 7

unquenchable, insistent, rapacious, ravenous, gluttonous, greedy, unappeasable

Answer 7

insatiable

Question 8

ebullient, unstoppable, uncontrollable, enthusiastic,insuppressible

Answer 8

irrepressible

Question 9

unchangeable, unalterable, permanent, constant, irreversible

Answer 9

irrevocable

Question 10

advisor, guide, coach, teacher, trainer, tutor, counsellor

Answer 10

mentor

Question 11

privilege, exemption, advantage, immunity, sanction, claim

Answer 11

prerogative

Question 11

infinite, countless, immeasurable, incalculable, variable

Answer 11

myriad

Question 12

discordant, harsh, strident, cacophonous, hoarse, loud, dissonant

Answer 12

raucous

Question 12

anarchy, tumult, chaos, bedlam, ruckus

Answer 12

pandemonium

Question 13

retort, pleasantry, mockery, joke, repartee, witticism, insult

Answer 13

quip

Question 14

buoyant, cheerful, assured, confident, enthusiastic, secure, self-assured

Answer 14

sanguine