Unit 2 Vocab - English 7-12

Question 1

Shockingly obvious; outrageous

Answer 1

Flagrant

Question 2

To take the risk of; dare

Answer 2

Venture

Question 3

Including all or much

Answer 3

Comprehensive

Question 4

To restore to a normal life through therapy or education

Answer 4

Rehabilitate

Question 5

To continue with an effort or plan despite difficulties

Answer 5

Perserve

Question 6

Complete confusion; uproar

Answer 6

Turmoil

Question 7

An event bringing great loss and misery

Answer 7

Calamity

Question 8

To vary irregularly; to go up and down or back and forth

Answer 8

Fluctuate

Question 9

To consider carefully; think deeply about

Answer 9

Ponder

Question 10

Customary; ordinary

Answer 10

Conventional

Question 11

A mystery or puzzle

Answer 11

Enigma

Question 12

To send to a specific place or on specific business

Answer 12

Dispatch

Question 13

Of, about, or happening in the night; active at night

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Nocturnal

Question 14

To make a statement about something on the basis of personal experience; bear witness; testify

Answer 14

Attest

Question 15

To determine one’s location or direction; to locate in relation to a direction(east, wets, ect.)

Answer 15

Orient

Question 16

To recognize; detect

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Discern

Question 17

To improve; add to the strength, beauty, or value of something

Answer 17

Enhance

Question 18

Moving or able to move from place to place

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Mobile

Question 19

A quality or feature of a person or thing

Answer 19

Attribute

Question 20

To be an example of; represent; be typical of

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Exemplify

Question 21

To make up; be the parts of

Answer 21

Constitute

Question 22

To fail to do something required

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Default

Question 23

Most common or most noticeable

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Predominant

Question 24

Something required beforehand

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Prerequisite

Question 25

To seize with authority; legally take possession of

Answer 25

Confiscate

Question 26

To interpret or read (something confusing or hard to make out)

Answer 26

Decipher

Question 27

Slight; very small compared with what might be expected

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Nominal

Question 28

Happening or existing at the same time; simultaneous

Answer 28

Concurrent

Question 29

A temporary decline in business

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Recession

Question 30

Supposed for the sake of argument or examination; imaginary; theoretical

Answer 30

Hypothetical

Question 31

Having many parts arranged in a complicated way; complex

Answer 31

Intricate

Question 32

To be good enough

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Suffice

Question 33

To worsen; deteriorate

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Degenerate

Question 34

A place of safety, protection, or relief

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Sanctuary

Question 35

To make a request or plead on behalf of someone else

Answer 35

Intercede

Question 36

Open to damage or attack; susceptible

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Vulnerable

Question 37

Difficult to believe; unlikely

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Implausible

Question 38

Evil; wicked

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Sinister

Question 39

Close inspection; careful examination

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Scrutiny

Question 40

Unable to speak in an orderly, logical way

Answer 40

Incoherent

Question 41

An uneasy feeling about how right or proper a particular action is

Answer 41

Qualm

Question 42

To mix up or confuse (as a story or message); scramble

Answer 42

Garble

Question 43

To feel or express delight or self -satisfaction, often spitefully

Answer 43

Gloat

Question 44

Something that weakens, damages, or destroys

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Blight

Question 45

Using someone else's writings or ideas as one's own

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Plagiarism

Question 46

To plan cleverly; think up

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Contrive

Question 47

To return an injury for an injury; pay back

Answer 47

Retaliate

Question 48

Very obvious, often offensively so

Answer 48

Blatant

Question 49

Perfectly Clean

Answer 49

Immaculate

Question 50

Thin and bony

Answer 50

Gaunt

Question 51

Bend

Answer 51

Flex, Flect

Question 52

Partly;half

Answer 52

Semi-

Question 53

Life; of living things

Answer 53

Bio-

Question 54

Father

Answer 54

Pater, Patri

Question 55

Cause to become

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-ate

Question 56

In the direction of; toward

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-ward

Question 57

Call; cry out

Answer 57

Claim, clam

Question 58

Strong

Answer 58

Forc, fort

Question 59

Person; having to do with people

Answer 59

Hum

Question 60

End

Answer 60

Fin