Test Prep Vocab Jeopardy

Week 1

100

hard-working

What is Diligent?

200

1) Deserving of criticism or disapproval 2) Flashy, tastelessly loud and brightly colored

What are Reprehensible and Garish?

300

1) To criticize severely 2) Existing only briefly 3) To have great ambition

What are Censure, Transient, and Aspire?

400

1) Polite, suave, and cultivated in manner 2) Insightful and wise 3) Done or made by secret or stealthy means 4) To spread out

What are Urbane, Sagacious, Surreptitious, and Disseminate?

500

1) Sad; gloomy 2) To overwhelm with; to flood 3) To make a judgment about 4) Extremely careful 5) To elevate, glorify, or praise

What are Melancholy, Inundate, Assess, Meticulous, and Exalt?

Week 2

100

1) No longer in use or current

What is Obsolete?

200

1) To void by recalling, reversing, or withdrawing 2) Explosive, tending to change

What are Revoke and Volatile?

300

1) To grow well 2) To weaken 3) Bitter hostility

What are Flourish, Undermine, and Animosity?

400

1) To feel angry and bitter about 2) To erase 3) Based on observation or experiment 4) To reestablish a close relationship between

What are Resent, Efface, Empirical, and Reconcile?

500

1) To seize and take control without authority and possibly with force. 2) Protection or shelter 3) Being or involving basic facts or principles 4) Forgetful; unaware 5) To combine

What are Usurp, Refuge, Rudimentary, Oblivious, and Consolidate?

Week 3

100

1) Friendly

What is Amicable

200

1) Not genuine, false 2) To improve

What are Spurious and Ameliorate

300

1) Emotionally hardened or unfeeling 2) Noble and generous in spirit 3) Isolated; narrow-minded

What are Callous, Magnanimous, and Insular?

400

1) Alert; watchful 2) Dry 3) Creating disagreement or dissent 4) Excessive; plentiful

What are Vigilant, Arid, Divisive, and Lavish?

500

1) Filled with or motivated by enthusiastic devotion 2) To examine carefully 3) Not showy or arrogant; modest; plain 4) To stray from the main subject 5) Being or taking a roundabout course

What are Zealous, Scrutinize, Unassuming, Digress, and Circuitous?

Mix it Up

100

1) To express or treat with disrespectful disregard

What is Scoff?

200

1) To emphasize 2) Clear

What are Underscore and Lucid?

300

1) Snobbish; overly proud 2) To anger or irritate 3) Calm

What are Haughty, Exasperate, and Serene?

400

1) To give one's support to 2) Highly elaborate; showy 3) Deliberate betrayal of trust 4) Foolish, ridiculously stupid

What are Espouse, Flamboyant, Treachery, and Fatuous?

500

1) To utilize fully or advantageously (often selfishly or unethically) 2) Lacking liveliness or interest; dull 3) An agreement 4) Native 5) A seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true

What are Exploit, Vapid, Concord, Indigenous, and Paradox?