Vocabulary Workshop Level B Final Mastery Test Answers

Wordly Wise 3000 Book 12

Fourth Edition - Answer Key

Lesson 4

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4A Determining Precise Meaning

p. 38

1. a
2. a
3. b
4. a
5. a
6. b
7. b
8. b
9. a
10. a
11. b
12. b
13. a
14. a
15. a

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4B Understanding Word Relationships

p. 39

1. b, c, d
2. a, b, c
3. a, c, d
4. a, b, d
5. d
6. b, c
7. a, c, d
8. b, d
9. c, d
10. a, b

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4C Word Study: Word Parts

p. 41

(Possible answers; students' definitions may vary.)

1. adumbrate, to foreshadow
2. congenital, present from birth
3. perennial, lasting for a long period of time
4. beneficent, doing good
5. recalcitrant, stubbornly defiant
6. iconoclast, an attacker of established beliefs
7. credo, a strongly held belief
8. ineluctable, not to be avoided
9. prototype, a first of its kind
10. obdurate, resistant to persuasion

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4D Understanding Contextual Meanings

p. 42

(Possible answers; students' sentences may vary.)

1. Recalcitrant students frequent the principal's office.
2. C
3. C
4. We have emerged from the benighted era of solving disputes with physical violence.
5. C
6. The student expatiated on the subject of her science project.
7. C
8. C
9. The statement that the moon landings were faked is risible.
10. The empirical method relies on observation.

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4E Vocabulary in Context

p. 43

(Possible answers; students' sentences may vary.)

1. She used empirical evidence from her work with children.
2. She believed they were able to learn, whereas the view at that time was that these children had no mental capacity. They were provided with food and shelter but nothing else.
3. She did not contradict him, yet she persuaded him to let Maria pursue a career.
4. Sample response: They might consider it risible, or they might be recalcitrant.
5. He proudly attended the graduation ceremony at which she received a degree in medicine, the first awarded to a woman in Italy.
6. He would have said that women and men have different roles to play and should be educated to fulfill those roles.
7. The school was set up for children of indigent families, not for those of the middle class.
8. She did not instruct her students with the expectation that they would then regurgitate what she had said. Instead, she believed children could learn many things on their own if provided the opportunity.
9. They gave her a mandate to set up other schools using the same approach.

End of Lesson 4