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Unit 7 Exercise Set I Answer Key
- EWhileindicates a contrast. If she is upbeat and
optimistic,it must be that most people would be
the opposite: depressed.
elated=extremely happy
diminutive=tiny
defamed=slandered
anemic=weak
despondent=lacking hope
2.C The professor lacks scruples(moral stan-
dards), so he must have done something bad to
the work of his students. If he is publishing papers
on topics that he has not researched, he is proba-
bly stealing the work.
isolated=secluded
relegated=banished
appropriated=taken as his own
annexed=added on to
eulogized=praised3.DThe fact that it is shockingimplies that the
two words should contrast with each other.
belittle=to put down; malady=illness
disparage=to put down; pariah=outcast
saturate=to fill completely; exile=outcast
lionize=to worship; outcast=someone
excluded
ostracize=to exclude; recluse=loner- BIf it is difficult to maintain plentiful harvests,it
must be because there is too little usableland.
desiccated=dry
arable=fertile
fallow=unused
celestial=relating to the sky
arid=dry - A An entrance that can accommodate entire
clansmust be pretty large.
voluminous=large;capacious=having lots of
room
enormous=huge;scanty=inadequate
cavernous=large;meager=inadequate
fecund=fertile;spacious=full of room
astral=pertaining to stars; copious=abundant
6. C Althoughindicates contrast. Although many
think it’s hard,Tommy must not have had diffi-
culty with it.
arduous=difficult, strenuous; exertion=
effort, strain
pedestrian=ordinary, mundane
pragmatic=practical, concerned with results
7. A Zach had knowledge of insects that allowed
him to identify the creature. Entomologyis the
study of insects.
entomology=study of insects
etymology=study of the origin of words
ethics=study of moral choices
pathology=study of disease
sociology=study of social institutions
8. EIf a country catches a spy pilfering(stealing)
information, they will send the spy back to his
country of origin.
quarantined=isolated
secluded=left alone
disseminated=spread out
distended=swollen
deported=banished
9. BIf the desert is now barren(infertile), it would
be hard to imagine it filled with farms and
wildlife.
doleful=filled with grief
replete=filled
germinated=sprouted
rarefied=thinned out
afflicted=suffering - C The section of a novel that follows the main
story is called an epilogue.
elegy=song or poem about death
epitaph=inscription found on a tombstone
epilogue=extra chapter added at end of novel
encore=an extra performance at the end of a
show
eulogy=high praise, speech given at funeral