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CHAPTER 3 / BUILDING AN IMPRESSIVE VOCABULARY 93

Unit I Exercise Sets II and III Answer Key

Exercise Set II

1. ANIMA: spirit, life, mind
   unanimous, magnanimous,
   animosity, animation,
   animal, inanimate


2. VAC: empty
   vacate, evacuate, vacuum,
   vacuous, vacation, vacant


3. BENE: good
   benevolent, beneficiary,
   bonus, bona fide, benediction


4. EU: good
   euphemism, eulogy, euphony,
   euphoria, eugenics


5. LOQU: talk
   loquacious, eloquent,
   ventriloquist, elocution,
   circumlocution
   6. CIRCUM: around
   circumference, circumnavi-
   gate, circumlocute, circuit,
   circuitous
   7. EX-, E-: out
   emit, extract, exclaim, exit,
   egregious, enormous
   8. LEG: law
   allege, legal, legitimate,
   legislate
   9. JUR: oath, law
   jurisdiction, abjure, adjure,
   jury, jurisprudence


6. VERB: word
   verbatim, verbose, verbal,
   verbalize, proverb


7. JUD: judge
   adjudicate, judicious,
   adjudge, judiciary


8. CIS: cut
   incisive, scissors, concise,
   schism, decide, suicide


9. CO-: together, with
   cooperate, connect, correlate,
   committee, collect, conspire


10. VOLE: wish
    voluntary, benevolent,
    malevolent, volition


11. GRAT: please, thank
    gratify, ingratiate, ingrate,
    congratulate, gratuity

Exercise Set III

1. N


2. Y


3. Y


4. N


5. N


6. mutate


7. vacuous


8. equanimity


9. pedestrian


10. hackneyed


11. phlegmatic


12. recalcitrant


13. querulous


14. brusque


15. garrulous


16. schism


17. perspicacious


18. judicious


19. scrutinize


20. acumen


21. circumlocution


22. anecdote


23. vacillate


24. protean


25. lassitude


26. lethargy


27. pusillanimity


28. euphemistic


29. adjudication


30. perjury


31. inscrutable


32. congenital


33. magnanimous


34. adjure


35. grandiloquent


36. eulogy


37. benign


38. euphemism


39. gratify


40. elocution


41. jurisdiction