These are 10 words the every High school graduate should know. take the quiz and share your scores. Let see how smart our HBCU students are..
abstemious:
A. eating and drinking in moderation
B. talking too loudly
C. speaking in a rude manner
2. bellicose:
A. warlike or hostile
B. flighty
C. quiet and given to retrospection
3. chromosome:
A. a strand of DNA
B. the substance that makes plants green
C. something found in water
4. filibuster:
A. the way teachers talk
B. the use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking
C. the color of liver
5. gauche:
A. the color of liver
B. a dance from the '60s
C. lacking grace or social polish
6. gerrymander:
A. a man or woman named Gerry
B. a style of clothing from the '60s
C. to divide voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party
7. interpolate:
A. to interpret from one language to another
B. to insert or introduce between other elements or parts
C. to speak without knowing what one is talking about
8. irony:
A. the act of straightening clothes that are not permanent press
B. lifting weights made of iron
C. the use of words to express something different from and often opposite to literal meaning
9. plagiarize:
A. to use words creatively
B. to use words that are in poor taste
C. to use and pass off the ideas or writing of another as one's own
10. suffragist:
A. an advocate of voting rights, especially for women
B. one who suffers mightily
C. the last person to finish a vocabulary quiz
List the answers you got and on the second blog share you scores.
Posted By: Alexandria Jackson
Tuesday, September 27th 2005 at 3:07PM
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