12th grade vocabulary

Question 1

Which word or phrase best completes the sentence? After years of losing to her, the champion finally met her ___ in the final.

• A. nemesis
• B. odyssey
• C. mentor
• D. maverick

Question 2

Which figure of speech matches this description? An elaborate, surprising comparison between two very different things, often extended.

• A. apostrophe
• B. synecdoche
• C. conceit
• D. metonymy

Question 3

Type the figure of speech (in English) that matches this description. Using a part to stand for the whole (or the whole for a part).

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Question 4

Choose the word that matches the description most precisely. Which word describes a plan that is practical and achievable?

• A. pragmatic
• B. utopian
• C. idealistic
• D. quixotic

Question 5

Which phrase matches this description? complete freedom to act as one wishes (French)

• A. de facto
• B. quid pro quo
• C. carte blanche
• D. déjà vu

Question 6

Type the phrase (in English) that matches this description. an embarrassing social mistake (French)

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Question 7

Which figure of speech is used here? Fifty sails appeared on the horizon.

• A. conceit
• B. synecdoche
• C. allegory
• D. metonymy

Question 8

Type the word or phrase (in English) that matches this description. changing mood quickly and unpredictably (from Mercury)

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Question 9

Which word matches this description? to warn or reprimand firmly

• A. fastidious
• B. specious
• C. admonish
• D. trenchant

Question 10

Type the word (in English) that matches this description. seeming reasonable but actually wrong

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Question 11

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word? An artistic ___, she rejected every rule her teachers had taught her.

• A. iconoclast
• B. acquiescence
• C. sanguine
• D. reticence

Question 12

Which phrase best completes the sentence? The novel captured the ___ of the 1920s: restless, glamorous and anxious.

• A. schadenfreude
• B. fait accompli
• C. modus operandi
• D. zeitgeist

Question 13

Which word or phrase matches this description? enduring hardship without complaint (from the Stoic philosophers of Athens)

• A. nemesis
• B. draconian
• C. stoic
• D. galvanise

Question 14

Which word or phrase best completes the sentence? A ___ in the industry, he ignored the usual rules and built his own path.

• A. nemesis
• B. mentor
• C. stoic
• D. maverick

Question 15

Which figure of speech matches this description? A sudden, often comic, drop from the serious to the trivial.

• A. bathos
• B. synecdoche
• C. allegory
• D. metonymy

Question 16

Type the figure of speech (in English) that matches this description. Referring to something by a closely associated thing, not a part of it.

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