Scholarship Vocabulary Lesson 7

Question 1

abrogate

Answer 1

abolish, annual, nullify, invalidate, renege, repeal

Question 2

allay

Answer 2

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

Question 3

bizarre

Answer 3

freakish, grotesque, strange, ridiculous, weird, odd

Question 4

brash

Answer 4

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

Question 5

confront

Answer 5

encounter, meet, defy, face, resist, flout

Question 6

diminutive

Answer 6

small, Lilliputian, miniature, tiny, miniscule

Question 7

dismantle

Answer 7

destroy, disassemble, raze, demolish, decimate, divest

Question 8

havoc

Answer 8

devastation, catastrophe cataclysm, ruin

Question 9

horrify

Answer 9

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

Question 10

inordinate

Answer 10

disproportionate, immoderate, unreasonable, excessive, unwarrented

Question 11

insatiable

Answer 11

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

Question 12

irrepressible

Answer 12

ebullient, unstoppable, uncontrollable, enthusiastic, insuppresible

Question 13

irrevocable

Answer 13

unchangeable, permanent

Question 14

mentor

Answer 14

advisor, guide, coach

Question 15

myriad

Answer 15

infinite, countless

Question 16

pandemonium

Answer 16

anarchy, chaos

Question 17

prerogrative

Answer 17

privilege, exemption

Question 18

quip

Answer 18

joke, insult

Question 19

raucous

Answer 19

harsh, loud

Question 20

sanguine

Answer 20

cheerful, assured