Exam Study Vocabulary Set 3

EXAM STUDY VOCABULARY SET# 3 1. abate(v.) to reduce The waves of the great movement abate, and on the calm surface eddies are formed in which float the diplomatists, who imagine that they have caused the floods to abate. (War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy)

2. debacle(n.) a disastrous failure The Belgians in vain interposed to prevent the butchery of the English. The Brunswickers were routed and had fled--their Duke was killed. It was a general debacle. (Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackery)

3. derivative(adj.) unoriginal, a shoddy copy The movement is, properly speaking, a derivativefrom Nihilism--though they are only known indirectly, and by hearsay, for they never advertise their doings in the papers. (The Idot, Fyodor Dostoevsky)

4. desecrate(v.) to violate the sacredness of a place or thing This foe confounding Thy land, desiring to lay waste the whole world, rises against us; these lawless men are gathered together to overthrow Thy kingdom, to destroy Thy dear Jerusalem, Thy beloved Russia; to defile Thy temples, to overthrow Thine altars, and to desecrateour holy shrines. (War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy)

5. desiccated (adj.) dried up; completely dehydrated A few shrivelled and blackened vestiges of what had once been stuffed animals, desiccatedmummies in jars that had once held spirit, a brown dust of departed plants: that was all. (The Time Machine, H. G. Wells)

6. enmity(n.) hatred, hostility Ralph, having died intestate, and having no relations but those with whom he had lived in such enmity, they would have become in legal course his heirs. (The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens)

7. incisive (adj.) clear, direct He had taken care to repeat the incisivestatement of his resolve not to be played on any more; and had tried to penetrate Raffles with the fact that he had shown the risks of bribing him to be quite equal to the risks of defying him. (Middlemarch, George Eliot)

8. inclination(n.) a tendency But I was secured in this point, for as I had no inclinationto change, so I had no manner of acquaintance in the whole house, and so no temptation to look any farther. (Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe)

9. incumbent(n.) someone who currently holds an office; (adj.) obligatory As incumbentof that office, he stumbled up-stairs late at night, as his father had done before him. (Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Stephen Crane) Craig had felt it incumbent on them to represent "the family" at the Chase on the occasion. (Adam Bede, George Eliot)

10. indigenous (adj.) originating in a particular region

That they were not the indigenousproduction of the region, I am firmly convinced. (Typee, Herman Melville)

Name Date

EXAM STUDY VOCABULARY SET# 3 QUIZ DIRECTIONS: Math each word with its definition by writing the letter of the definition in the blank in front of the word it defines.

_____ 1. abate

A. a disastrous failure

_____ 2. debacle

B. dried up; completely dehydrated

_____ 3. derivative

C. to violate the sacredness of a place or thing

_____ 4. desecrate

D. clear, direct

_____ 5. desiccated

E. unoriginal, a shoddy copy

_____ 6. enmity

F. someone who currently holds an office;

obligatory

_____ 7. incisive

G. to reduce

_____ 8. inclination

H. originating in a particular region

_____ 9. incumbent

I. a tendency

_____ 10. indigenous

J. hatred, hostility

EXAM STUDY VOCABULARY SET# (Answer Key) DIRECTIONS: Math each word with its definition by writing the letter of the definition in the blank in front of the word it defines.

__G___ 1. abate

A. a disastrous failure

__A___ 2. debacle

B. dried up; completely dehydrated

__E___ 3. derivative

C. to violate the sacredness of a place or thing

__C___ 4. desecrate

D. clear, direct

__B___ 5. desiccated

E. unoriginal, a shoddy copy

__J___ 6. enmity

F. someone who currently holds an office;

obligatory

__D___ 7. incisive

G. to reduce

__I___ 8. inclination

H. originating in a particular region

__F___ 9. incumbent

I. a tendency

__H___ 10. indigenous

J. hatred, hostility