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The document provides definitions for 32 words by having students match each word with its definition. It tests vocabulary related to etymology, government, religion, education, natural environments and other topics. Each question has four multiple choice answer options for the student to select the word that means the same as the given phrase.

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1 Etymology

The document provides definitions for 32 words by having students match each word with its definition. It tests vocabulary related to etymology, government, religion, education, natural environments and other topics. Each question has four multiple choice answer options for the student to select the word that means the same as the given phrase.

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Etymology

VAPG102

In each question below, identify the word d) Complication


which means the same as the given phrase
8. The act of helping to commit a crime or
1. More than you need or want
do wrong in some way
a) Affluent
a) Compulsion
b) Influence
b) Commemorate
c) Effluence
c) Commotion
d) Superfluous
d) Complicity

2. Very pleasant to listen to


9. Relating to marriage or to a married
a) Flume
couple
b) Confluence
a) Conclave
c) Mellifluous
b) Concomitant
d) Fluent
c) Concatenate
d) Conjuga
3. The art of making beautiful handwriting
a) Calligraphy
10. Suitable or appropriate
b) Lithography
a) Contingent
c) Cartography
b) Congenial
d) Hagiography
c) Conjecture
d) Conflate
4. A document wholly in the handwriting
of its author
11. Not showing enough care and attention
a) Epigraph
a) Remiss
b) Autograph
b) Missive
c) Holograph
c) Admissible
d) Seismograph
d) Permissible

5. Agreed to by everyone
12. To cancel or free someone from a
a) Magnaminous
punishment, debt, etc.
b) Pusillanimous
a) Transmit
c) Equanimity
b) Permit
d) Unanimous
c) Remit
d) Emit
6. Adverse criticism
a) Animadversion
13. Opposed to someone or something in a
b) Animosity
very angry or determined way that
c) Animator
cannot be changed
d) Animus
a) Implacable
b) Complacent
7. A feeling of guilt or regret
c) Placid
a) Comportment
d) Placebo
b) Commutaion
c) Compunction

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14. A feeling of unhappiness or annoyance 21. An area of soft wet land with grasses
a) Placate and related plants
b) Pleasant a) Aquamarine
c) Displeasure b) Marinorama
d) Pleasantry c) Submarine
d) Marsh
15. Having or showing a tendency to eat
very large amounts of food 22. Not agreeing with established beliefs or
a) Frugivorous standards
b) Voracious a) Heterogeneous
c) Devour b) Heterodox
d) Herbivorous c) Heteronym
d) Heterosexual
16. A town or other area where people live
in houses near a larger city 23. Someone who helps another person,
a) Urban group, etc., by giving money
b) Urbane a) Faculty
c) Exurb b) Facilitator
d) Suburb c) Facile
d) Benefactor
17. To examine or read something in a very
careful way 24. A way of behaving or appearing that
a) Peruse gives other people a false idea of your
b) Perceive true feelings or situation
c) Permeate a) Facade
d) Perturb b) Factor
c) Faction
18. Having no mistakes or flaws d) Olfactory
a) Pervasive
b) Perjury 25. An imaginary person that represents a
c) Perfect thing or idea
d) Perfidious a) Superficial
b) Personification
19. To spread through all parts of c) Proficient
something d) Ratification
a) Perforate
b) Pervade 26. To pay out money from a fund that has
c) Perspire been created for a special purpose
d) Peregrinate a) Reimburse
b) Bursar
20. An area of water where privately c) Bursa
owned boats are kept d) Disburse
a) Marina 27. A form of government in which a
b) Marine country is ruled by religious leaders
c) Rosemary a) Autocracy
d) Maritime b) Plutocracy
c) Theocracy
d) Aristocracy

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28. One who practices social equality
a) Democrat
b) Technocrat
c) Bureaucrat
d) Autocrat

29. Easily taught, led or controlled


a) Dogmatic
b) Docent
c) Doctrinal
d) Docile 30.

30. To instruct especially in fundamentals


or rudiments
a) Document
b) Doctor
c) Doctorate
d) Indoctrinate

31. To make something seem less


important or valuable
a) Denigrate
b) Generate
c) Degenerate
d) Regenerate

32. Produced, living, or existing naturally in


a particular region or environment
a) Genteel
b) Genealogy
c) Indigenous
d) Congenial

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