Exercise 1 and 2 A

Directions: Write the letter of the best ANTONYM (the word or phrase most nearly opposite the word in bold-faced type).

1. a(n) creditable record
1. unbelievable             c. disgraceful            e. consistent
2. falsified                   d. reliable

2. a means of divination
1. staying underwater for long periods            c. becoming a god              e. reviewing the past
2. foretelling the future                               d. becoming divine

3. a result of atheism
1. belief in god             c. autonomy            e. disloyalty
2. aggression               d. nihilism

4. an accredited college
1. uncertified                c. infamous              e. ostentatious
2. impoverished            d. unprestigious

5. to give credence to someone
1. refuse                     c. disrespect             e. condole with
2. believe                    d. doubt

6. become a deity
1. theologian                c. criminal                e. mortal
2. diviner                     d. pantheist

7. a(n) impious act
1. unselfish                  c. pathetic               e. sacrilegious
2. consecrated             d. unexpected

8. offer a pittance
1. sympathy                c. a share                e. sanctions
2. a generous amount   d. credence

9. enact sanctions on a country
1. penalties                  c. rewards               e. war
2. jeopardy                 d. trust

10. execrable behavior
1. creditable                 c. vigilant                 e. pedantic
2. sacrilegious              d. erratic

11. a place of sanctuary
1. sacrosanction           c. danger                e. circumspection
2. holiness                   d. derision

12. show piety
1. credence                 c. disrespect            e. fidelity
2. distrust                             d. generosity

13. an act of expiation
1. accreditation             c. credulity               e. revenge
2. consecration             d. desperation

Directions: Write the letter of the best SYNONYM (the word or phrase most nearly the same as the word in the bold-faced type).

14. a respected theologian
1. pantheist                 c. accreditor             e. believer in a diety
2. theocrat                  d. student of divinity

15. respected their creed
1. deity                       c. praise                  e. prophecy
2. fundamental beliefs    d. customs

16. a(n) credulous audience
1. skeptical                  c. unbelievable          e. restless
2. faithful                    d. gullible

17. witness a(n) apotheosis
1. sacrifice                   c. creed                  e. accreditation
2. pantheon                 d. deification

18. an Aztec divinity
1. monument               c. creed                  e. religious practice
2. custom                             d. deity        

19. a former theocracy
1. religious school                   c. basic principle        e. belief in all gods
2. government by priests         d. divine being

20. study the Aztec pantheon
1. temple                    c. belief in all gods     e. creed
2. totality of gods         d. credence            

21. such hieroglyphic signs
1. carved                    c. out-of-date           e. illegible
2. poetic                     d. ossified

22. of great sanctity
1. scarcity                   c. sanity                  e. holiness
2. impiety                    d. sanctimonious

23. a(n) sacrosanct custom
1. common                 c. secret                 e. avant garde
2. sacred                    d. catholic

24. to consecrate a building
1. deluge                    c. curse                  e. excavate
2. enlarge                   d. bless

25. a group that is hierarchic
1. revolutionary            c. organized by rank            e. famous in history
2. exclusive                 d. condemned by others

26. such a(n) sacrilege
1. error                       c. act of devotion      e. creditable act
2. insult                      d. act of disrespect

Exercise 1 and 2 B

Directions: Write the letter of the sentence in which the word in bold-faced type is used incorrectly.

1. a. The Romans practiced divination by studying the flight of birds.

         b. The Toltec divination Quetzalcoatl is represented as a plumed serpent.         

          c. I divine from her manner that she has something to hide.

          d. In the Bible, Joseph divines the meaning of the Pharoah’s dream, predicting seven plentiful years                    

   followed by seven years of famine.

2. a. The bride defied tradition and had her mother walk her down the aisle instead of her father. 

b. In disguise, Rosalind teases the lovesick Orlando about deifying her name by carving it on trees and       

         hanging poems about her in the forest. 

c.  Because she passed the difficult test set by the gods, Psyche was deified and brought to live on Mt.

    Olympus with her lover, Cupid.

d. Some parents seem to deify their children, regarding them as models of perfection.

3. a. Native people of the American Northeast shared a pantheistic belief in manitous, good and bad       spirits that inhabited all nature.

b. The Roman Empire practiced pantheism in its acceptance of all the gods of the nations it conquered.

           c.   A complete pantheist, she excels in sports, academics, and music.  

 d. According to the Greek pantheism, gods lived in fountains, rivers, and pools.

    3.   a.  Although highly esteemed in our town, this private hospital has never been accredited by the state.

b. The crew’s incompetent performance on the trip suggests we shouldn’t accredit its report of bad sailings conditions as the cause of the accident.

c. The school lost its accreditation because of poor instructions and exploitative management.

d. I accredit my success to both luck and determination.

1.      a.  Christian divinity students usually study Hebrew and Greek in order to read both the Old and New Testaments in their original languages.

b.   Dagon, the chief divinity of the Philistines, was represented as half human and half fish.

c.   Muslims do not regard Mohammad as a divinity but as a mortal man chosen as a prophet by Allah.

d.   Through skillful divinity ancient Mayan astronomers were able to predict eclipses of the moon.

2.      a.  The United Nations imposed sanctions against South Africa.

3.      b.  The pope refused to sanction the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.

c.   The goalie’s protest to the referee carried the sanction of her entire team.

d.   This wildlife sanction contains many endangered species of birds.

4.      a.   The church sanctuary is decorated with beautiful stained glass windows.

5.       b. England became a sanctuary for aristocrats fleeing the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.

c. Pursued by an angry mob, Esmeralda took sanctuary in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame.

d. Her sanctuary attitude led me to consider her very pious.

6.      a. In The Scarlet Letter the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale’s sanctimonious appearance conceals a secret guilt.

b. The sanctimoniousness of the Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi won him the profound respect of both Hindus and Muslims.

c. Some politicians sanctimoniously attend church only during election campaigns.

d. Although he himself evaded taxes, he sanctimoniously accused those who voted again tax increases  of lacking public spirit.

7.      a. The Seminole are an indigenous American people.

b. Several kinds of rock found on the California coast are not indigenous but were brought from different locations by shifting geologic plates.

c. No matter how hard he tried to earn a living, he remained indigenous and dissatisfied.

d. The potato is indigenous to South America.

8.      a. Production on an assembly line insures almost perfect homogeneity in the cars a factory makes.

b. Most dairies homogenize their milk so that cream does not rise to the top.

c. After we had homogenized the laboratory, no one could detect a trace of the chemical explosion.

d. Some math teachers prefer homogeneous classes so that no student will feel the pace is too slow or too fast.

Exercise 1and 2 C

Directions: Fill in each blank with the most appropriate word from Lesson 1. Use a word or any of its forms only once.

1. In recent years many African nations have achieved _____________________ after decades of colonial rule.

2. The office supervisor followed his routine with such mechanical consistency that his subordinates called him a(n) _____________________.

3. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle assigned his fictional sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, to many perplexing cases of _____________________.

4. Until he was transformed by adopting an orphan child, Silas Marner was a(n) _____________________ who lived in isolation.

5. Human beings are “the measure of all things” from the point of view of _____________________.

6. Mary Wollstonecraft, an eighteenth-century _____________________ wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in response to Rousseau’s claim that women’s major role was to care for men.

7. Advances in _____________________ have made it possible for women who were once infertile to have children.

8. Because my supervisor is such a(n) _____________________, I have asked for a transfer to a department in which all employees’ opinions are valued.

9. Since the Red Cross began inspecting detention camps, prisoners of war live in more _____________________ conditions.

10. Mihkail Baryshnikov brought new excitement to ballet with his _____________________ style of dancing.

11. Zora Neale Hurston’s studies in _____________________ focused on black folklore in the South and in the West Indies.

12. All of the doctor’s _____________________ have followed their mother’s example and have studied medicine too.

13. Throughout history there have been examples of _____________________ as one group of people finds cause to destroy another.

14. Tom Sawyer’s _____________________ plan convinces his friends to do his work – whitewashing a fence.

15. Designed in 1909, Henry Ford’s Model T is the _____________________ of today’s mass-produced automobiles.

16. Students profit from acquiring techniques for reading various _____________________: poetry, essays, short stories, and novels.

17. Too much competition can _____________________ fear and distrust among students.

18. Although found throughout California, eucalyptus trees are _____________________ to Australia.