Unit 1 Synonyms
Conniff points out that chimps spend about 5 percent of the day being aggressive, but 15 to 20 percent of the day grooming each other.
Which of these is a synonym for aggressive? actions / high-reaching / threatening
What is threatening?
Which words means "like a mother"?
Motivation / Slaughter / Caretaker / Maternal / Reintroduction
What is maternal?
Hyenas live in groups with a strict _______________. One female has the most power and makes all of the decisions for the group.
Which word form is correct in this sentence? pecking ordered / pecking orders /pecking order
What is pecking order?
Due to the lack of evidence, the cause of the victim’s death is still_________________________.
Which word correctly completes this sentence? sample / unclear / combination
What is unclear?
After the police questioned him, the suspect eventually admitted to committing the 2001 robbery.
Which of these is a synonym for aggressive? allowed / confessed / welcomed
What is confessed?
When bosses criticize their employees, treat them unfairly, or make their working lives difficult, employees become stressed, lose motivation, and quit their jobs.
Which of these is a synonym for criticize? find fault with / competition / actions
What is find fault with?
Which word means "to kill in large numbers"?
Slaughter / Caretaker / Maternal / Reintroduction
What is slaughter?
Researchers saw that a baby chimp ______________ her mother’s behavior.
Which word form is correct in this sentence? mimick / mimicked / mimicks
What is mimicked?
Some researchers think that the Iceman ______________ heart disease.
Which word correctly completes this sentence? heard of / suffered from / stayed in
What is suffered from?
Scientists guessed that the Iceman might have been resting after a meal when enemies attacked him from behind.
Which of these is a synonym for attacked? criticized / infected / assaulted
What is assaulted?
New research shows people in offices may use conflict and cooperation in similar ways to primates in the jungle.
Which of these is a synonym for conflict? desire / competition / high-reaching
What is competition?
Which word means "a person responsible for looking after someone or something"?
Slaughter / Caretaker / Maternal / Status / Reintroduction
What is caretaker?
A mother emperor penguin protects her ______________ from the Antarctic cold by keeping it under a warm layer of feathered skin.
Which word form is correct in this sentence? offsprung / offsprings/ offspring
What is offspring?
Researchers _______________ CT scans of the Iceman’s body.
Which word correctly completes this sentence? sat in on / carried out / suffered from
What is carried out?
And, indeed, a palo verde tree at the scene of the crime looked like a truck might have hit it.
Which of these is a synonym for hit? crashed into / slapped / punched
What is crashed into?
Employees with ambitious career goals, for example, often rely on powerful people in their office to help them get better jobs.
Which is of these is a synonym for ambitious? threatening / high-reaching / reprimand
What is high reaching?
Which word means "the act of putting something back into an environment where it once was"?
Slaughter / Reintroduction / Status / Caretaker / Maternal
What is reintroduction?
It is difficult to study animals in the wild, but it is easy to study animals _________________.
Which word form is correct in this sentence? on captivity / in captive / in captivity
What is in captivity?
The blood in a leech at a crime scene matched a DNA sample taken from one of the robbers, so police were able to determine his ________________.
Which of these words correctly completes this sentence? identity / height / language
What is identity?
These mummies and artifacts were an extremely important archaeological discovery, but they did not answer many questions about the young pharaoh and his family.
Which of these is a synonym for discovery? innovation / find / invention
What is find?
Does the “office jungle” mirror behavior in the real jungle?
Which of these is a synonym for behavior? standing / actions / competition
What is actions?
Which word means " "?
Slaughter / Motivation / Caretaker / Maternal / Reintroduction
What is motivation?
Conniff sees similarities in the ways humans and primates use social networks and hierarchies to gain status.
Which word form is correct in this sentence? status / statuses / statusing
What is status?
The _______________ of an old wound and a full stomach indicated that the Iceman probably was not in a fight when he was killed.
Which word correctly completes this sentence? mention / combination / sample
What is combination?
The other seven mummies were unknown.
Which of these is a synonym for unknown? foreign / strange / unidentified
What is unidentified?