Some Vocabulary Words to Enhance Yours |

Which word best matches these example sentences? 

1. (a) Mary made a homemade journal by binding a ____________ with leather string. 

     (b) I collected a ____________ of high-quality paper to create a scrapbook from our travels. 

 Haughty – Quire – Anthropomorphic – Alimentation 

2. (a) No one can quite comprehend the ____________ of time. 

    (b) Those experiencing homelessness may be slipping deeper into the ____________ of despair. 

Mitzvah – Plethora – Maudlin - Abyss 

3. When the new boss was hired, the team acted with ____________ and compliance to her wishes.

 Deference – Linchpin – Ebullient – Platitude

4. The rattlesnake is an incredibly dangerous, ____________ snake commonly found in the southern United States. 

Virulent - Cretonne – Plethora – Meritorious 

5. Fortunately for those afraid of them, dinosaurs are no longer ____________. 

Pugnacious – Resplendent – Antiseptic - Extant 

6. After waking up at 1 a.m. to go Black Friday shopping, she was ____________ed with shopping.  

Accoutrements - Abysmal – Morass - Surfeit 

7. The friends engaged in ____________ from time to time when they played cards. 

Hearsay – Volitional – Noisome – Persiflage 

8. The community demanded an ____________ of a condition in the home owners association bylaws.

Austere – Abrogation – Obelus – Troglodyte 

9. (a) I used 'old wise tale' which is an ____________ for 'old wives tale.' 

    (b) The editor caught an ____________ in the article she was proofreading. 

Eggcorn – Tomfoolery – Prosopopoeia - Cretonne 

10. (a) All of the employees felt they could speak candidly with Joe, the _________ CEO. 

      (b) Jack was filled with _________ pride when he held his new niece for the first time. 

Akimbo – Campanile – Malaise - Avuncular 

Answers 

1. Quire [ k wī(ə)r ] - 25 (formerly 24) sheets of paper; one twentieth of a ream. 

2. Abyss [ uh-bis ] - anything profoundly unfathomable or eternal. 

3. Deference [ def-er-uhns ] - respectful submission or yielding to the judgment, opinion, will, etc., of another,

4. Virulent [ vir-yuh-luhnt, vir-uh- ] - actively poisonous; intensely noxious. 

5. Extant [ ek-stuhnt ] - in existence; still existing; not destroyed or lost. 

6. Surfeit [ sur-fit ] - noun: excess; an excessive amount. - verb: to supply with anything to excess or satiety; satiate. 

7. Persiflage [ pur-suh-flahzh ] - light and slightly contemptuous mockery or banter. 

8. Abrogation [ ab-ruh-gey-shuhn ] - the repeal or abolition of a law, right, or agreement. 

9. Eggcorn [ eg-kawrn ] - a word or phrase that is a seemingly logical alteration of another word or phrase that sounds similar and has been misheard or misinterpreted. 

10. Avuncular [ uh-vuhng-kyuh-ler ] - acting like an uncle, as in being kind, patient, generous, etc., especially to younger people; of or relating to an uncle