Vocabulary Workshop Level C Review Units 1-3 Answers

Wordly Wise 3000 Book 11

Fourth Edition - Answer Key

Lesson 5

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5A Understanding Meanings

p. 51

(Possible answers; students' sentences may vary.)

1. C
2. C
3. C
4. Repercussions are the results of an action.
5. C
6. Probity is honesty and trustworthiness.
7. C
8. C
9. C
10. Histrionics are theatrical displays of emotion.
11. C
12. C
13. To besmirch someone is to damage that person's reputation.
14. C
15. C

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5B Using Words

p. 52

1. a. impropriety b. impropriety c. impropriety
2. a. purport b. purport
3. a. accrue b. accrue
4. a. explicit b. explicit c. explicit
5. a. unsavory b. unsavory c. unsavory
6. a. inveigled b. inveigled c. inveigled
7. a. acquiesce c. acquiescence
8. a. besmirched c. besmirched

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5C Word Study: Synonyms and Antonyms

p. 53

• 1. strengthen, atrophy A
• 2. circumspect, audacious A
• 3. arcane, abstruse S
• 4. prodigious, puny A
• 5. heinous, commendable A
• 6. submit, acquiesce S
• 7. efficacious, effective S
• 8. fortunate, hapless A
• 9. accumulate, accrue S
• 10. lackluster, vibrant A

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5D Images of Words

p. 54

1. c
2. b, c
3. a, c
4. a, b, c
5. No sentence suggests acquiescence.

6. a, b, c
7. b
8. a
9. b
10. a, b, c

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5E Vocabulary in Context

p. 56

(Possible answers; students' sentences may vary.)

1. There was a surfeit of quiz shows modeled after the successful TV program, The $64,000 Question.
2. The questions they posed in the early rounds were less abstruse than those in the later rounds.
3. The contestants were purporting to hear the questions for the first time.
4. The passage says viewers were inveigled by the contestants' furrowed brows and anguished looks.
5. He should have become suspicious when the producers' hints about questions became more explicit.
6. Sample response: They might have become upset because they knew the game was fixed.
7. Sample response: People may be less surprised today to hear of cheating.
8. Sample response: He caused people to doubt his probity.
9. Twenty-one people were charged with perjury. Van Doren was fired from his job as a television consultant and resigned from Columbia University.
10. He penitently expressed his regret at having deceived the public, his friends, and his family.
11. This event may have besmirched the reputation of other teachers.

End of Lesson 5